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leaders who control their nations by force
(Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini) |
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extreme nationalism and racism
It began in ITALY, Benito Mussolini made it popular. |
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| a single party and its leader suppress all opposition and control all aspects of people's lives |
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| britain and france thought that they could avoid war by accepting german's demands |
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| lightning war (fast attack) |
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| this act allowed the US to sell lend or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered vital to the defense of the US |
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| giving up military weapons |
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| military and civilian preparations for war |
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| consumers could buy only limited numbers of them. (shoes, gasoline, tires, sugar, and meat, etc) |
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| detention center for west coast Japanese americans; crowded and uncomfortable; harsh conditioned |
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| June 6, 1944 allied ships landed on the coast of normandy |
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| wiping out an entire group of people |
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| attacking and capturing certain key islands. Used these islands as bases for leapfrogging to others |
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| corps of suicide pilots crashed planes loaded with explosives to US ships, sank several destroyers during battle for okinawa. |
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| British Empire, Soviet Union, USA |
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| Germany, Italy, later Japan |
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CAUSE OF WORLD WAR TWO
social causes |
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After WWI germany's economy fails like US economy
- many people in germany lost pride in their country, allowing adolf hitler to come to power |
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CAUSE OF WORLD WAR TWO
Political causes
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-Rise of dictators in Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union
- the failure of the league of nations to prevent conflict led to this war because not enough powerful nations joined
- Hitler the Nazi Party
- facism leads to an alliance between germany + italy |
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economic causes
CAUSE OF WORLD WAR TWO
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The great depression affects countries other than the US
-Germany was struggling after WWI
- japan wanted its economy to grow but lacked resources. they invaded other countries in asia to get those resources |
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military causes-
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-non aggression pact > an agreement between hitler + stalin in which stalin agreed not to interfere when germany invaded poland as long as hitler left the soviet uion alone.
- germany wants a global empire
- japan wants a global empire
- appeasement after hitler invaded austria
+ czechoslovakia, england + france agreed to leave hitler alone if he promised not to expand any further |
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| hitler blamed the jews for the hardships germany faced after WWI > anti-semitism |
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| What country did hitler invade to start WWII |
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| How did Winston Churchill keep england safe? |
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