Mrs. Sullivan's World War I and World War II

Question	Answer
Nationalism	Pride in ones own country it created Germany and Hungary but tore apart Austria-Hungary
Destructive Nationalism	Nationalism that is destructive very bad for a country led to World War I and World War II
World War I	1914 to 1918
Alliances	Agreements between countries to insure they are protected against attacks
Central Powers	Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey
Allied Powers	Great Britan, France and Russia
Imperial Rivalries	Competetion for colonies brought the Central and Allied powers into conflict and fueled ideas of war.
Newspaper Press	Inflamed war fever to sell papers and interfered with government attempts to solve problems by diplomacy
Militarism	After 1900 Europe experienced an arms race and countries spent huge amounts on arms to keep up with the one another
Treaty of Versailles	Officially ended World War I. Forced the Germans to pay reparations and limit the size of their army.
Reparations	A monetary settlement designed to pay for the damage to the allied powers
Causes of World War I	1. Alliances 2. Militarism 3.Nationalism 4. Imperial Rivals 5. Newspaper Press
Causes of World War II	1. Resentment over the Treaty of Versailles
Adolf Hitler	a German leader during World War II
World War II	1939-1945
Axis Powers	Germany, Italy, and Japan
Allied Powers of World War II	Great Britan, Soviet Union, France, China and the U.S.(joined in 1941)
Holocaust	a deliberate and systematic extermination of European Jews during World War II.
Cold War	was led to by World War I and World War II
Constructive Nationalism	Nationalism that is good for countries
Europe before WWI	Nationalism high.
Why join alliances before WWI?	European nations feared one another; Nations were afraid that other nations might troy to take over its territory; they created alliances; There was strength in numbers and people feared attacks.
Main alliances during WWI?	Central Powers and Allied Powers
Main alliances during WWII?	Allied Powers and Axis Powers
Germany and the Treaty of Versailles	1. not allowed to have a military 2. forced to give up colonies 3. Owed 33 million in war damages 4. Had to give up its trading ships
After treaty signed	Germans felt a lot of resentment
Start of WWII	September 1, 1939
US joined Allied Powers?	1941
After WWII Western Europe	allied themselves with the US and the countries grew together as a region
Ater WWII Eastern Europe	their economies failed to recover and government suspended many of peoples freedoms
Superpowers after WWII	United States and Soviet Union

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