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Road to WWII
Test 2 Bonebrake
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History
10th Grade
02/22/2012

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Overruns Manchuria and Eastern China i quest to become strong empire
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Japan
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Italy conquered this African nation
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Ethiopia
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Hitler's defiances of the Treaty of Versailles
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military build up
sent troops into Rhineland DMZ
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giving in to the demands of an angressor in order to keep the peace
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appeasement
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opposition to all war
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pacifism
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American policy passed by Congress to avoid involvement in a European war
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Neutrality Acts
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Germany, Italy, and Japan formed this
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the Axis powers
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conservative Spanish general that led revolt to start Spanish Civil War
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Francisco Franco
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union of Austria and Germany
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Anschluss
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Hitler demanded that this region of western Czechoslovakia must be annexed
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Sudetenland
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British prime minister prior to WWII
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Neville Chamberlain
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Hitler's non-aggression pact with Stalin
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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Semtember 1st, 1939 Germany invades this country
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Poland
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2 days after invasion to Poland
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
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United States foreign policy
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isolationist
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Treaty of friendship between Soviet Union and Germany
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1922 Rapallo Treaty
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Terms of Treaty
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Besides friendship and peace, Soviets secretly produce weapons for Germany and German troops train in the Soviet Union
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confernence held to encourage downsizing of military forces
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Washington Disarmament Conference
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place where Germany, Belgium, and France agree on boundaries
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1925 Locarno, Switzerland
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effects of Locarno meeting
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promised all future disputes settled themselves via peaceful means
new age of security and nonagression
creates optimism
Germany allowed into League of Nations
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nations signed it to pledge to stop using wars to achieve goals
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1928 Kellog-Briand Pact
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effects of Kellog-Briand Pact
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war outlawed except for defensive purposes
symbolized advancements toward peace in decade after WWI
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effects of Kellog-Briand Pact
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war outlawed except for defensive purposes
symbolized advancements toward peace in decade after WWI
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underground French fortress along border of Germany
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Maginot Line
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German air force
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Luftwaffe
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idea of combining Austria and Germany
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Anschluss
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Austrian Prime Minister against plan of anschluss
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Engleburt Dollfuss
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when Mussolini is against anschluss/supporting Austrian independence
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Rome Protocols
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First meeting of Hitler and Mussolini
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1934
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Mussolini's mistake at the meeting
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refuses translator
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Hitler wants this guy replaced
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Dollfuss
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July 1934 Hitler and Austria
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attempted kidnapping of Dollfuss
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Mussolini's response to Hitler's attempted kidnapping
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sends troops to border and gains respect of Britain and France
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Mussolini's foreign expansion
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turns to Ethiopia and establishes Italian African presence in December 1934
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Hitler's first act of expansion
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sends troops into Saarland and Rhineland
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Wehrmacht
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German army
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Spaniard who leads revolt against government
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Francisco Franco
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Spanish fascists
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Falange
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Germany's attitude toward Spanish Civil War
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dress rehearsal
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Germany and Italy sides with
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Spanish nationalists
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Luftwaffe bombing on Spanish city
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Guernica
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formed between Italy and Germany
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Berlin-Rome Axis
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formed between Italy and Germany
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Berlin-Rome Axis
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before Austrian vote, German forces
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invade Austria and anschluss obtained
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new Austrian PM
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Seyss-Inquart
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part of Czech Republic that Hitler wanted
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Sudetenland
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reason for pursuit of Sudetenland
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many Germans living there, advantageous geographic position
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British PM
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Neville Chamberlain
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Czech President
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Benes
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Chamberlain and Sudetenland
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wanted Czech to give it to Germany without resistance
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Chamberlain's meeting in Munich
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try to convince France and Czech that it is best to just hand it over
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Munich Agreement
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Hitler gets Sudetenland in exchange for no more invasions
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to concede to demands in order to preserve the peace
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appeasement
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"peace in our time"
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Chamberlain says this after arriving back from the Munich meetings
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outspoken critic of Chamberlain against appeasement
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Winston Churchill
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capability of Luftwaffe
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able to strike Britain
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last piece of land taken without force
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Memel (part of Lithuania)
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after Memel, Hitler annuls this
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non-aggression pact with Poland
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Polish strip of land to sea
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Danzig
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Hitler's operation to Poland
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Operation White
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Date of Polish invasion
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September 1st, 1939
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treaty between Hitler and Mussolini where each would come to other's aid in case of attack
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Pact of Steel
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Stalin would have preferred treaty
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with democracies
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Russian Foreign Minister
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Molotov
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German Foreign Minister
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von Ribbentrop
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Nazi-Soviet Pact terms
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non-aggression pact, secretly divide Poland into two
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chronology
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1933 Hitler takes over
Germany leaves League of Nations
1934 Dollfuss killed
1935 Luftwaffe created
March 1936 Rhineland demilitarized
March 1938 Anschluss
October 1st, 1938 Hitler given Sudetenland
March 15, 1939 Hitler takes over Czech
March 22, 1939 Hitler takes over Memal
May 1939 Pact of Steel
August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact
September 1st, 1939 invasion of Poland
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