WWII

Question 1

Benito Mussolini moves from Italy to Switzerland avoiding military service in 1902.

Answer 1

He advocated for a violent overthrow of European monarchies

Question 2

This gets him in a bit of trouble with the Swiss popo

Answer 2

His ideas made him famous among Italian socialists.

Question 3

He was anti-war

Answer 3

When WWI came along he protested Italy’s involvement .

Question 4

But then he thought, the war could overthrow European

monarchies

Answer 4

Mussolini is now pro-war

Question 5

He felt that Italy needed a fresh start

Answer 5

Instead of having class divisions, unite the PPL through 
nationality.

Question 6

Conquer the Mediterranean & reunite all Italian peoples,

Answer 6

Just like the days of the roman empire.

Question 7

He called it “fascismo” (fascism)

Answer 7

And thought it would guide the Italian nation to greatness

Question 8

Italy had been on the allies’ side in WW1,

Answer 8

They were promised they were going to gain tremendously

Question 9

But in the end, they only got a little, they felt cheated.

Answer 9

A weak government & economy meant that the Italian people were
unhappy.

Question 10

Mussolini comes along, & said that he could fix everything,

Answer 10

This is how his fascist movement gained the people’s support

Question 11

In 1922, Mussolini went to the king and said, ‘make me prime
minister, or I’ll make me prime minister.’

Answer 11

He then established a dictatorship with himself at its center.

Question 12

Europe now has its first fascist dictator.

Answer 12

Germany had been on the losers’ side, & were absolutely devastated
by the treaty of Versailles.

Question 13

They lost territory, had to demilitarize the Rhineland, had to reduce their
army to just 100,000 men, couldn’t have an air force

Answer 13

& Had to pay the allies a huge amount of money that it didn’t have

Question 14

Germany was in a very bad place

Answer 14

A bad economy and weak government meant that when a
small, angry man came along and said that he could fix
everything,

Question 15

The German people loved it.

Answer 15

Hitler was a soldier during WW1,

Question 16

He was very patriotic.

Answer 16

Nobody was more upset than him about Germany’s

humiliation.

Question 17

He helped start a new political party, and in 1923,

Answer 17

Attempted a march on Munich with his supporters.

Question 18

He got arrested.

Answer 18

His popularity grew and grew,

Question 19

In 1933, the president made him chancellor

Answer 19

He believed he was Germany’s great destined savior.

Question 20

He went full megalomaniac

Answer 20

Establishing a dictatorship with himself at its center.

Question 21

Europe now had fascist dictator no. 2.

Answer 21

Hitler and Mussolini had a lot of the

same ideas.

Question 22

More importantly, they had the same

enemies.

Answer 22

They started to get along.

Question 23

Japan had isolated itself from the rest of the world for over 200
years.

Answer 23

Until the united states interfered

Question 24

Then the western powers imposed many ‘unequal treaties’.

Answer 24

This busted Japan’s economy.

Question 25

They also had no natural resources.

Answer 25

So they decided to go get some

Question 26

They went to war with china to create a sphere of influence

over Korea,

Answer 26

They took a bunch of china’s land & resources.

Question 27

The west stepped in and told japan to stop or else…

Answer 27

The west then started setting up spheres of influence on

weakened china & Korea…

Question 28

Japan was understandably upset

Answer 28

And went to war with Russia.

Question 29

They stunned everyone by actually winning.

Answer 29

Japan fully annexed Korea,

Question 30

But they didn’t stop there…

Answer 30

In WW1, they took Germany’s colonies and islands in Asia.

Question 31

Then in an incident that was staged by the Japanese army.

Answer 31

A bomb blew up a Japanese train in manchuria.

Question 32

Giving them an excuse to launch an invasion and take over.

Answer 32

Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and japan,

Question 33

All believe they’re racially superior.

Answer 33

All feel hostility towards the allies,

Question 34

All wanted to militarize and take more land.

Answer 34

So they did.

Question 35

Hitler hated the treaty of Versailles,

Answer 35

And now he was ready to begin undoing it.

Question 36

In complete violation of the treaty

Answer 36

The first Luftwaffe squadrons were set up

Question 37

Conscription was introduced

Answer 37

Hitler sends his beefed up army to the demilitarized Rhineland with
orders to retreat if the allies showed up

Question 38

The allies didn’t do anything about it…

Answer 38

In response to Germany’s aggressiveness the allies

implemented a very useless tactic called appeasement

Question 39

It went like this…

Answer 39

Germany marches its military into Austria and takes it without
resistance

Question 40

And we leave you on a cliffhanger

Answer 40

And btw Hitolini is real