Term | Definition |
Worldwide depression | America became the leading country to lend other countries money, but when our economy crashed this affected the whole world; simply the U.S. was owned over ten billion dollars in war debt which we tried to collect but were unable to |
Impact of the Depression on other Countries | Germany was hit the hardest since it owned the most money cause of World War II
Japan: has a serve food shortage
Italy: has a food shortage and people revolted against the government
Great Britian: had to rebuild its millitary and rely on the U.S |
fascism | all power in a country was given to a dictator |
Adolf Hitler | leader of the Nazi party he said that Germany was not treated fairly during World War II and he blamed the Jews |
Bento Mussolini | leader of Italy he thought that Italy was mistreated and he worked to build the Itslian military up and strengthen the economy |
Hideki Tojo | the Minister of Japan because Tojo was in charge of the military. Tojo wanted to build a strong military |
Axis powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
Lend-Lease Act | gave the president $50,000,000,000 worth of military equipment to any country to help it win the fight |
Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1971 Japan attacked our naval base killing over 2,400 americans and destroying most of our navy in the Pacific |
Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, Russia, China, and the United States |
Allied Leaders | Prime Minister Winston Churchhill=Great Britain, General Charles DeGaulle=France, Premier Joshef Stalin= Russia, General Chiang Kai Shek=China, President Franklyn D. Roosevelt= United States |