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Treaty of Versailles
The peace treaty that ended World War I was signed by Germany and the Allies at the Palace of Versailles near Paris. -
RISE OF ITALIAN FACISM (Benito Mussolini came 2 power)
Benito came to power in 1922 and then facism came about and helped find political ideology. He also sided with the Axis powers in 1940. -
The Great Depression
Hoover was the president during the Great Depression and the great depression was basically the stock market crash. It was really sad to a lot of people that loss a lot of stuff. -
Anti Comminism
Under communism, all means of production are controlled by the government, as are property, the media, and all other aspects of society.
The 1930s saw the rise of many totalitarian regimes; but most people chose fascism over communism.
Hitler exploited people’s fear of a communist takeover in Germany to rise to power in 1933.developed in reaction to the rise of communism, especially after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and reaching global dimensions during the Cold War. -
U.S Isolationism
The failure of peace efforts such as the Kellogg Briand Treaty during the 1920s disillusioned many Americans about international involvement.
The U.S. was in a major depression throughout the 1930s and was mostly concerned with its own problems.
Conflict in Europe seemed distant, and the U.S. tried to remain neutral. This policy weakened the European democracies.During the 1930s, the combination of the Great Depression and the memory of tragic losses in World War I contributed to pushing Americ -
Rise of Hitler & Nazi Party
Hitler was a bad man who put people in concentration camps. The nazi party was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that practised nazism -
Japanese Expansionism
The same year, Japan began to attack China, with full-scale war breaking out in 1937 in the Sino-Japanese War.
In 1938, war broke out between Japan and the Soviet Union in what were known as the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars. -
Militarism
the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. -
Appeasement
Appeasement is the act of giving in to an enemy’s demands in hopes of avoiding further conflict.
In 1938, Hitler demanded that Czechoslovakia cede the Sudetenland to Germany. He claimed that the German population living there was being mistreated.
The British and French prime ministers agreed to Hitler’s demands without consulting Czechoslovakian leaders, in the hopes that this would avoid a war in Europe. A classic example of appeasement is the Munich Pact of 1938, negotiated between Neville -
Nationalism
nationalism definition. The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination. -
WWll Began
The two dates most often mentioned as "the beginning of World War II" are July 7, 1937, when the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" led to a prolonged war between Japan and China, and September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state in retaliation.
