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WWll Notes 1 Flashcards

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Who were the Allied Powers?

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Great Britain, France, China, Soviet Union, United States

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Who were the Axis Powers?

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Germany, Italy, Japan

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Who was the leader of Germany

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Adolf Hitler

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Who was the leader of Italy?

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Benito Mussolini

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Who was the leader of Japan?

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Hideki Tojo

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Who was the leader of Soviet Union/Russia?

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Joseph Stalin

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Who was the leader of the US?

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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What were the main causes of WWll

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The Treaty of Versailles
The Spread of Tatalitarianism
Expansion

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The Treaty of Versailles?

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  • Ended WWl
  • Demanded that Germany pay resparations (fees/payments) for damages and expenses caused by the war
  • Severly damaged Germany’s economy
  • New democratic governments that emerged in Europe after the war started to struggle
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The Spread of Totalitarianism?

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  • Nationalism more prevalent in Europe
  • Communist state- The Soviet Union
  • Joseph Stalin took over in 1924
  • Fascism in Italy and Nazi Germany
  • Militarism in Japan
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Expansion?

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  • Japan launched surprise attack on Chinese province of Manchuria
  • Japan launched another invasion deeper into China thats seized lands in eastern Asia
  • Italy targeted Ethiopia in Africa
  • Germany began military build up and violated the treaty of versailles because hitler thoughy it was dumb
  • Germany sent troops into Rhineland and then into Austria and took over
  • Germany said their citizens were being abused in Czechoslovakia and Britain and France had promised to protect Czech
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What ended WWl

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The treaty of Versailles

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War-Guilt Clause

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placed the blame for the war entirely on Germany

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How did the treaty of versailles affect Germany

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  • Germany didnt have enough money to pay the resparations.
  • Stripped Germany of all overseas colonies and border territories
  • Had to give some of their major industrial regions in which made paying reparations harder
  • prices on goods rised
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Why were Italy and the Soviet Union angered by the treaty of Versailles

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they felt that they were ignored during peace talks and that their efforts were overlooked

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nationalism

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loyalty and pride in one’s country above all else

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what did russias civil war result in?

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the creation of a communist state (The Soviet Union)

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What were Joseph Stalin’s goals

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  • to create an ideal communist state
  • agricultural and industrial growth
  • transform the SU from a country lacking im technology to one leading in it
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what did joseph stalin do

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  • abolished all privately owned farms and repacled them with collectives
  • created 5 year plam for industrialization
  • helped make the SU the worlds second-largest industrial power
  • successfully created a totalitarian gov’t
  • responsible for 8-13 million deaths
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collectives

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large government owned farms worked by hundereds of families

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what is a totalitarian gov’t

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the government has complete and total control and individuala have no rights

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Benito Mussolini

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  • created another totalitarian regime in Italy
  • powerful speaker
  • promised a return to the glory of Rome
  • created the fascist party in 1921
  • marched on Rome with his follower and forced the King of Italy to hamd over power
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what was the fascist party

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when the strength of the nation relied on a single strokg rulernwith a small group of supporters

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Adolf Hitler

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  • powerful public speaker
  • emphasized german pride
  • promised to bring hermany out of chaos
  • promoted racial purification
  • promoted national expansion amd said that if germnay was going to thrive, it needed more living space
  • established the third reich (third germany empire)
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militarism

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using a strong military to accomplish their country’s goals

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Hideki Tojo

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launched invasion into China in which seized lands in Eastern Asia and turned them into Japanese colonies

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why did hitler say germany needed the land of its neighbors

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to grow and prosper

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what was created by Paris Peace Conference after WWI

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Austria, a small countrt that used to be Austria-Hungary

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What did Hitler claim to be happening in Czechoslovakia

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German-speaking citizens were being abused

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what happened after the problem in Czech was brought up

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  • Hitler used the media to gain favor of germans
  • Britain and France were willing to protect Czech
  • Britain and France didnt want war so they believed hitler and sigmes the Munich Agreement
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what was the Munich Agreement

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turned Sudetenland over to Germany without a shot being fired

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Winston Churchill

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  • main political rival for Chamberlin (Britains Prime Minister)
  • Claimed Daladier and Chamberlain were cowards
  • said that britain and france chose dishonor and will get war

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