Topic 11: Causes, Practices and Effects of Wars - CS 2- WW2

Question 1

Causes

Answer 1

Economic
Political
Ideological
Territorial

Question 2

Economic Causes

Answer 2

Great Depression
Reparations and War debt
Resource Scarcity
Economic Imperialism

Question 3

Ideological

Answer 3

Nazism and Racial Supremacy
Fascism and Militarism
Japanese Imperialism
Anti-Communism

Question 4

Political Causes

Answer 4

Versailles Treaty Resentment
Failure of the League of Nations
Appeasement policies
Axis Power Alliances
Nazi-Soviet pact
Spanish Civil War

Question 5

Territorial Causes

Answer 5

Revision of Versailles
Lebensraum
Anschluss and the Sudetenland
Axis powers and Expansionism
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Invasion of Poland

Question 6

Practices and Outcomes (Events - Wo won and Why)

Answer 6

Technological (air, land and Sea)
Mobilisation of economic and human resources
Foreign Intervention

Question 7

Technological (air, land and Sea)

Answer 7

Land:
Tanks and Mechanised Infantry
Artillery and firearms

Air:
Aircraft Evolution
Radar and electronic Warfare
Strategic Bombing
Atomic Bomb

Sea:
Aircraft Carriers and Naval Aviation
Submarine warfare

Question 8

Mobilisation of economic and human resources

Answer 8

Total Economic Mobilization
War Production Boards and Acts
Industrial Relocation and Output
Human Resources
Women’s Role in Industry
Impact on War Outcomes

Question 9

Foreign Intervention

Answer 9

Lend-Lease Program
Entry of USA
Soviet Union’s Role
Allied Cooperation and Strategic Decisions
Impact of Japan

Question 10

Effects (Results, and Consequences)

Answer 10

Territorial
Political
Economic
Social

Question 11

Long-Term Causes

Answer 11

Great Depression
Reparations and War debt
Resource Scarcity
Japanese Imperialism
Versailles Treaty Resentment
Revision of the Treaty of Versailles

Question 12

Short-Term Causes

Answer 12

Economic Imperialism
Nazism and Racial Supremacy
Fascism and Militarism
Anti-Communism
Appeasement
Isolationism
Failure of the League of Nations
Axis Powers Alliances
Spanish Civil War
Lebensraum
Anschluss

Question 13

Immediate Causes

Answer 13

Nazi-Soviet Pact
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Invasion of Poland

Question 14

Effects (results and consequences)

Answer 14

Territorial
Political
Economic
Social

Question 15

Territorial Effects

Answer 15

Redrawing of National Borders
Dissolution and Decolonization
Political Economic and Military Division of Europe

Question 16

Political

Answer 16

Establishment of the United Nations
Emergence of Superpowers and the Cold War
Transformation in Political Ideologies (Communist state under USSR and democracy and economic recovery under western infleunce)
Legal and Judicial Innovations - Civil Rights movements

Question 17

Economic

Answer 17

Economic Dislocation and Recovery in Europe (Aided by the USA’s Marshall Plan)
Inflation
Shift in Economic Centers

Question 18

Social

Answer 18

Humanitarian crisis and Displacement
Impact on Civilian Populations
Impact on Women
Holocaust
Casualties