World War Two

Question 1

what were the three theaters of war?

Answer 1

1. Europe
2. Mediterranean and Africa
3. The Pacific

Question 2

what is fascism?

Answer 2

Political ideology.

• Extreme nationalism
• support imperialism
• Racism- belief in superiority of some races
• Dictator is stronger than Parliamentary democracy

Question 3

Nationalism

Answer 3

belief in supremacy of the nation

Question 4

Imperialism

Answer 4

right to rule over other nations

Question 5

Points of treaty of Versailles

Answer 5

• ALLIES PUNISHED GERMANY
  1. RESTRICTED MILITARY to 100 000 volunteers, no air force, limited navy, no manufacture of arms.
  2. LOST ALL OVERSEAS COLONIES, territory given to Poland, provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to France
  3. RHINELAND OCCUPIED BY ALLIES for 15 years (the industrial area of Germany)
  4. Hitler and Nazis able to INSTILL FEAR THAT GERMANY WAS VULNERABLE TO HER ENEMIES.

Question 6

Reparations

Answer 6

PAYMENTS AS COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE CAUSED

• Germany to pay for all civilian damage suffered by the allies
• Hitler and Nazis able to use economic crisis to further weaken the government and reinforce idea that Germany was under threat.

Question 7

Allies

Answer 7

Britain, France and the other states on the winning side of WW1

Question 8

The League of Nations

Answer 8

Permanent members: Britain, France, Italy and Japan
- falls short of what it is supposed to do; not strict enough
AIM: to prevent wars
- Woodrow Wilson’s idea

Question 9

Problems with the League of NAtions

Answer 9

1. Votes had to be unanimous
2. Most people wanted to ‘take action’
3. Every member wanted to avoid war
4. Didn’t have a military
5. America didn’t join

Question 10

Great depression:

Answer 10

MONEY IS WORTHLESS!

• Early 1920 hyperinflation wiped out value of currency
• Unable to pay reparations

Question 11

Great Depression in Germany

Answer 11

• 1924-1929: Government recalled currency and issued new notes and coins
• 1929: Beginning of Great Depression
• By 1932, 6 million Germans unemployed
• Hitler used economic crisis to his advantage, promising restoration of German industry, national pride and restoation as world leader
• Portrayed communists and Jews as enemies within causing hardship of the German people

Question 12

Failure of The League of Nations

Answer 12

• no U.S. backing
• No one willing to stand up against aggressors
• League of Nations is powerless

Question 13

Appeasement

Answer 13

MAKING CONCESSIONS TO AVOID CONFLICT

• Western democracies were unwilling to risk another war by standing up to fascist aggression
• Hitler able to sign agreements to buy time and demonstrate to the German people that Germany would no longer be pushed around by the Allies

Question 14

WHAT HAPPENED ON THESE DATES:

• March 1935
• June 1935
• March 1936
• March 1939
• 1 September 1939

Answer 14

March 1935: Hitler announced he had an air force and was introducing conscription
June 1935: Britain agreed to Germany increasing its navy to 35% of Britain’s
March 1936: Germany marched into Rhineland
March 1939: Germany invaded the Sudetenland
1 September 1939: Germany invade Poland and Allies responded with military action

Question 15

American isolationism

Answer 15

AMERICA REFUSES TO ENTER THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY:

• America had adopted policy ISOLATION to avoid being drawn into Europe’s wars
• Hitler was certain Germany would not have to face the largest military force in the world (the U.S.A.)

Question 16

Isolationism

Answer 16

The policy or doctrine of isolating one’s country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one’s country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilites.

Question 17

Weimar Republic

Answer 17

The democratic system of government in Germany from 1919 to early 1933, so called because its constitution was written in the city of Weimar.

Question 18

Hyperinflation

Answer 18

such an extreme rise in prices that a currency loses and real value (Germany early 1920’s)

Question 19

Aryan race

Answer 19

A term used by the Nazis to describe ‘pure-blooded’ Germanic peoples

Question 20

The Nazi Party

Answer 20

Nazi regime controlled Germany from 1933 to 2945.
A fascist party headed by Adolf Hitler.
Led Germany to war in 1939.
Main ideology: only the strong survive
Hated communists and Jews

Question 21

Lebensraum (living room)

Answer 21

The Nazi ideology that Germany must gain lebensraum for its expanding population by taking land from non-Aryan races.

Question 22

The Battle of Britain

Answer 22

Hitler- ‘Operation Sea Lion’: air attacks followed by landings of German troops.
On 10 July 1940, the Luftwaffe (German air force) struck convoy ships in the English Channel. It then targeted airfields, military installations, ports and cities, killing 15 000 British civilians
-The RAF fought back- over 500 airmen lost their live, but they denied the Nazis control of the air and the invasion was prevented.

Question 23

Evacuation of Dunkirk

Answer 23

-340 000 allied soldiers were pushed back to the beaches of Dunkirk, Northern France
.- 800 British boats were able to evacuate most of its troops, as well as many French, Dutch and Belgian soldiers.