Unit 8 history test Flashcards
What are some factors that the treaty of versailles had?
- put the blame for the war on Germany
- broke up the austrian hungarian empire and formed new countries like Poland and Czechoslovakia
- Forced Germany to decrease their army
What were the problems in Europe after world war one?
Economic: people were jobless
Political: weak governments fear of jew communists
Social: unrest people look for a leader
What is a Dictatorship?
Rule by a single person
What is Totalitarianism?
A single person controls everything
What is Fascism ?
Autocratic rule/ stresses Nationalism
What is Socialism?
The state owns property
What is Communism?
The community ownership
What is Appeasement?
giving into others demands
What does it mean to be Belligerent?
aggressive or involved in a war
who started the first Totalitarian State?
Joseph Stalin
who was Joseph Stalin?
The communist leader of Russia
Who was Mussolini?
The Fascist leader of Italy
stretches nationalism through being aggressive
Where was Militarism and Imperialism strong?
Japan
what does Adolf Hitler wanna accomplish?
He wants revenge towards the Treaty of Versailles
Wants to take over the world
what does Adolf Hitler accomplish?
Discovers a small political party called NAZI
Wrote a book named my struggle
Creates a new empire “ Third Reich”
gets Germanys army back
what is The beer hall putsch?
the NAZIS try to overthrow the local government of Germany(it fails and Hitler is arrested)
what was the Munich Conference?
Hitler believed Sudetenland should be part of Germany and he promised if he received the Sudetenland there would be no war
what is the Quarantine speech? and who gave it?
criticizing violence,suggests that no part of the world was truly isolated from the rest of the world
Franklin D Roosevelt
How did WW2 start in Europe?
Germany invade poland - which begins world war 2
Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
what is the Neutrality Act 1939?
any country can come back their war materials and stuff but with cash and carry that stuff back on their own ships
what is the Lend lease act?
Gave the president authority to sell or lend equipment to countries to defend themselves against the axis powers
what are the Four freedoms?
freedom of speech, religion, want, and fear
what is the Atlantic Charter?
Winston churchill signed a secret thing helping Britain if they ever need help
what is the Destroyers for bases?
Gave Britain war supplies and naval warships exchange for military bases
What were four factors that grew US involvement into WW2?
Destroyers for bases
Lend lease act
Four freedoms
Atlantic Charter
what was Operation Barbarossa?
Germany invades the Soviet Union
A plan to take over Russia , attack the country that Hitler made a contract with
what was Hitler’s Biggest mistake ?
Operation Barbarossa because he turned his biggest enemy against him
What was Pearl Harbor?
Japan carried out an air attack on the American naval base at pearl harbor
What were the different types of US mobilization?
Human Resources - women went to work in factories, more minority participation
Economic Resources- limit the amount of resources people can use ex gas,oil, and meat, To get money for the war they increased taxes and sold war bonds
Military Resources- The draft/selective service was used to provide personnel for the military
Media and Entertainment- strict censorship of reporting of the war because to improve public support of the war done through propaganda
Who were the big three?
Winston Churchill , Stalin , and FDR
where were the two main places that the war was fought?
The Europe and the Pacific
what was United States strategy?
was focused on Europe and focused on defeating Hitler
Stop German submarines
Start bombing raids on German cities
What was Germany’s strategy?
wasn’t about the US or England they wanted to defeat the Soviet Union to get their oil fields and they needed to do it before the US got their industrial strength
What was The Battle of El Alamein?
Battle against British and Germans
the whole purpose of this war was for the Germans to get the Suez Canal
The British won the war which stopped the Germans from having control of the Suez Canal
what was Battle of Stalingrad?
Germans trying to take over Russia
Stalin used his scorched earth policy - set fire on the supply that the Germans can take and use against Russia
Germans surrendered because they did not have the materials to survive
what is D-Day?
Beginning of the allied invasion of France
Led by Eisenhower
Largest land and water fight
This invasion made it possible for the liberation in Paris
what was the Yalta Conference?
The Allied leaders got together assuming they would win how the world would operate after the war and how they will prevent another war like this will happen again
What did they decide at the Yalta Conference?
Created a United Nations to promote world peace
Germany would be divided into 4 zones controlled by the US, British, France, and Soviet Union
Eastern european countries would have free elections
what is V-E Day?
Victory in Europe when Germany surrenders
who were the two main generals of WW2?
Douglas and Isenhower
what was the Battle of Coral sea?
Stopped the japanese advance toward Hawaii
what was the battle of Midway?
Americans forces defeat a much larger Japanese force
Americans Victory
what was the Manhattan project?
A joint allied project consisting of Canadian, British, and US Scientists to build an atomic bomb
what was V-J Day?
Americans Victory in Japan
Because the americans dropped a bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
what does Genocide mean?
Purposeful destruction of a racial, political , or cultural group
What were the Nuremberg Trials?
Nazi leaders convicted of war crime
