WORLD WAR 2 AND PEACE SETTLEMENTS (WH) Flashcards
What are the FIVE MAJOR TENETS?
- Open Covenants of Peace
Nations - Freedom of Navigation, Fair
Trade and the Fair Treatment of
Colonial People - Disarmament
- The Right to Self Determination
- The Establishment of League of Nations
A major tenet wherein nations should not enter into secret treaties of any kind.
Open Covenants of Peace
Nations
A major tenet where there is absolute freedom of navigation.
Freedom of Navigation, Fair
Trade and the Fair Treatment of
Colonial People
A major tenet where there is reduced militarism and the race to arms.
Disarmament
A major tenet where ethnic and national lines have the
right to draw their own borders
and establish their own
government.
The Right to Self Determination
A major tenet where there is the guarantee the covenants
of peace, political
interdependence, and territorial
integrity.
The Establishment of League of
Nations
An international organization
established after World War I. It aimed in promoting peace and
preventing future conflicts.
League of Nations
When/who created the League of Nations?
Treaty of Versailles in 1919 (primarily the leaders)
Name all the main aims and challenges and failures of the League of Nations.
MAIN AIMS:
1. Collective Security
2. Disarmament
3. Conflict Resolution
CHALLENGES AND FAILURES:
1. Lack of U.S. Participation
2. Inability to Prevent Aggression
3. Limited Enforcement Power
One of the main aims wherein if a country was attacked, other nations would come to
its defense.
Collective Security
One of the main aims that encourage nations to
reduce their weapons and military capabilities.
Disarmament
One of the main aims where mediate disputes between countries to prevent war.
Conflict Resolution
One of the challenges and failures wherein the U.S. Senate never ratified the Treaty of Versailles, and thus the
U.S. did not join the League.
Lack of U.S. Participation
One of the challenges and failures where The League
failed to prevent the rise of fascism and aggression
Inability to Prevent Aggression
One of the challenges and failures where The League had no standing military force, and its sanctions lacked enforcement power.
Limited Enforcement Power
What and when replaced the League of Nations?
United Nations in 1945
A result of unresolved tensions from World War I, expansionist
ambitions, and ideological conflicts.
World War 2
Name the FIVE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR 2.
- Treaty of Versailles
- Expansionism
- Failure of the League of
Nations - Appeasement
- Nazi-Soviet Pact
(Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939)
A cause of war during world war 2 where the harsh terms
angered Germany and contributed to Hitler’s rise.
Treaty of Versailles
A cause of war during world war 2 where Germany sought to expand eastward (Lebensraum), Japan aimed to dominate Asia, and Italy
pursued conquests in Africa.
Expansionism
A cause of war during world war 2 where The League
failed to stop aggressors
like Japan (in Manchuria, 1931), Italy (in Ethiopia, 1935), and
Germany (reoccupying the
Rhineland, 1936).
Failure of the League of
Nations
A cause of war during world war 2 where Western
democracies, particularly Britain and France, allowed
Hitler to annex Austria
(1938) and Czechoslovakia (Munich Agreement, 1938) to
avoid war.
Appeasement
A cause of war during world war 2 where Germany and
the Soviet Union secretly agreed to divide Eastern Europe, ensuring Hitler could
invade Poland without
Soviet resistance.
Nazi-Soviet Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939)
Name all the major events during WORLD WAR 2
- WAR BEGINS: Invasion of
Poland - North Africa Campaign
- Invasion of the Soviet Union
- Pearl Harbor Attack
- Battle of Stalingrad
- North Africa Victory
- Battle of Midway
- D-Day
- Liberation of Paris
- Battle of the Bulge
- Fall of Berlin
- Germany Surrenders
- Island-Hopping Campaign
- Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
