Unit 7 and 8 WH

• What were the main causes of WW1?

  Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
• How did imperialism help cause WW1?

  Helped build empires, markets and will lead to a competition environmen.
• How did nationalism cause WW1?

  Led to bitterness among regions.
• What event ignites the powder keg?

  Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Where were the 3 fronts of WW1?

  Western Front was in France and Belgium, Eastern Front was on the Russian border Italian Front
• What was trench warfare like?

  Fighting in ditches, diseases, dirty
• What was the reason for the large number of deaths in WW1?

  The mass production of weapons
• What was the Black Hand?

  A Serbian nationalist group comitted to freeing serbians from austro hungarain control.
• Who assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

  Gavrilo Princip
• What were some new weapons developed during WW1?

  Tanks, poison gas, machine guns, and airplanes.
• President of U.S. who wanted to stay neutral about the war:

  Woodrow Wilson
• How did the attack on the Lusitania, the Zimmerman Telegram, and German’s submarine warfare lead to the US entering WW1?

  Germany sunk the Lusitania which killed 128 Americans; Americans were very angry, Germany sends the Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico promising that they would win over the land the US took if they attacked the US, Germany also starts sinking US ships without warning which causes the US to declare war.
• What was the Zimmerman Telegram?

  Secret message from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance against the United States during WWI.
• What was the Selective Service Act?

  An act that increased US military
• First soldiers in WW1:

  Doughboys
• What evidence suggested that Russia was in a crisis?

  Lack of food, high taxes, poor working conditions
• Who were the romanovs?

  The ruling family of russia.
• Who won the Russian Civil War?

  Bolsheviks (the reds)
• Who were the big four?

  Woodrow Wilson (US) Georges Clemenceau (France), David Lloyd George (Great Britain), Vittorio Orlando (Italy)
• What was Woodrow Wilson's 14 points?

  His plan to undo the MAIN causes of WW1
• What was the Treaty Of Versailles and in what year was it signed?

  A treaty meant to punish Germany for WW1 signed in 1919.
• What was the Great Purge?

  Stalin would kill anyone that went against his ideas
• What were Mussolini’s followers called?

  Fascists (black shirts)
• How did Mussolini manage to keep power?

  He ran a corrupt (unfair) election, he banned all other political parties, killed anyone who disagreed with fascism
• What book did hitler write in jail?

  Mein Kampf
• What were the Nuremberg laws?

  Laws in Germany that limited the rights of Jews
• Military General who wanted to create a Japanese empire in Asia:

  Hideki Tojo
• General who won the Spanish civil war:

  Francisco Franco
• How did hitler break the treaty of versailles?

  He used conscription to increase his military, he annexed austria, and invaded Czechoslovakia
• How did Europe respond to Hitler after he broke the Treaty of Versailles?

  Appeasement, and the Munich Pact
• What was the soviet non aggression pact?

  An agreement where countries will not attack eachother
• When and where did WWll begin?

  1939, in Poland
• Which countries fall to the Germans in 1940?

  Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg.
• Describe the Battle of Britain?

  Air war, Hitler tries to conquer Britain but fails
• What was the Cash and Carry policy?

  Allowed the US to send goods to the British if they paid cash to carry their own ships
• What was the lend lease act?

  Allowed the US to give war equipment to any ally
• What event caused the US to enter WW2?

  Attack on Pearl Harbor
• What was considered the turning point of the war?

  Battle of Stalingrad
• Where and why does the war end?

  Ends in the pacific because of the atomic bomb
• Secret project where the atomic bomb was developed:

  Manhattan Project