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| alliances | what developed between nations before WWI so they would have friends in case of war |
| The Balkans | Region where the spark that ignited WWI started |
| The assassination of a prince | What started WWI |
| Austrian Prince that was assassinated | Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
| After the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, Austria declared war on this country | Serbia |
| Austria was declared war on by this country | Russia |
| The result of the machine gun being invented | trench warfare |
| This was a passenger ship that was carrying weapons from the US to England | the Lusitania |
| The US entered WWI in | April, 1917 |
| The real reason the US entered WWI | it didn't want to lose the money it loaned the Allies |
| The Central Powers in WWI were | Germany, Austria Hungary, and the Turkish Ottoman Empire |
| What ended World War I officially | the Treaty of Versailles |
| What the Treaty of Versailles did | punished Germany, established the League of Nations |
| Agreement between 60 nations after World War I to keep the peace | League of Nations |
| The father of psychology, believed people were violent and self-destructive by nature | Sigmund Freud |
| He led the Communist Revolution in Russia | Vladimir Lenin |
| Lenin's political party | the Bolsheviks |
| This Russian leader was arrested and killed by the Bolsheviks | Tsar Nicholas II |
| these are groups of workers that get together and strike until their demands are met | labor unions |
| Causes of the Great Depression | a bad economy in Europe after WWI, a stock market crach |
| Fascism was against | Communism and democracy |
| Mussolini was dictator of this country | Italy |
| Hitler blamed Germany's problems on these | the Treaty of Versailles and Jews |
| What Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler did to control their people | take control of the media, ban political parties, set up secret police |
| Mass culture allows this to happen | all people to read, hear and see the same things |
| Stalin was this type of leader | totalitarian |
| Estimate of how many people Stalin killed | 20 million |
| Hitler's new air force was called this | the Luftwaffe |
| Hitler got to try out his new air force during this | The Spanish Civil War |
| Means "to give in to demands" | appeasement |
| England and France finally declared war on Germany when they invaded this country | Poland |
| The Axis Powers in WWII were these countries | Germany, Italy and later Japan |
| Country that committed the "Rape of Nanking" | Japan |
| Reason why Japan wanted to invade Asia | it needed resources to become powerful |
| Blitkrieg means this | "lightening war" |
| Blitzkrieg put an end to this | trench warfare |
| London was bombed by Germany for 57 straight nights during this battle | the Battle of Britain |
| This country won the Battle of Britain | England |
| Why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor | It was the closest naval base to Japan and the US was hurting Japan economically |
| Date on which the US entered WWII | December 8, 1941 |
| Victims of the Holocaust | Jews, as well as Poles, gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally or physically disabled |
| An entire army was captured at the battle fo Stalingrad by this country | Russia |
| This invasion by the Allies trapped the Germans between the Allies in the west and the Russians in the east. | The invasion of Normandy |
| After Germany surrendered, the Allies were still fighting this country | Japan |
| The race for the atomic bomb was between these two countries | The US and Germany |
| The first atomic bomb was dropped here | Hiroshima, Japan |
| The President that ordered the dropping of the Atomic Bomb was | Harry Truman |
| Japan surrendered after this city was bombed | Nagasaki |
| One of the biggest changes in warfare during WWI | Civilians were now primary targets, and the atomic bomb |
| Of the 50 million people that were killed during WWI, this many were civilians | two thirds |
| The country with the most losses during WWI was this country | Russia, with 23 million dead |
