HAC2 Root Causes & Axis Powers

Nationalism

Having strong national pride for your country

Industrial Revoultion

Marked a turning point in resources, a strong government, manpower, and transportation

Poisonous Gas

Gas used to lure people out and eventually kill them

Trench Warfare

Stationed in trenches during battle, would throw bombs, and other items to cause damage

Stock Market Crash

Main Cause of WWI, leads to Great Depression

Invasion of Poland

After Germany and Russia signed the Non Aggression Pact, claiming that they would split Poland, Germany invaded Poland, claiming it was self defense

Scape Goating

A political technique where you blame your problems onto someone else

Hyperinflation

After WWI, Germany had a hard time paying off its war debts and stabliizing the economy, so it expierenced a period of hyperinflation

Enabling Act

Gives Hitler all power to make laws without the Reichstag, merges the chancellor + president position into Hitler’s new title, Fuhere.

Appeasement

Giving someone what they want in order to keep the peace

Lebensuram

Living Space for Germans

Tolterian Governement

Government that has total control over you, your desciions, and what you do

Non Aggression Pact

Pact signed by Germany and Russia stating that they would not be violent torwards each other, they would not become alliances, however not violent. They would also decide to split Poland.

Weimar Republic

Weak German System

Beer Hall Butsch

Hitler stood on a table and yelled, preeching Nazi values, he would get arrested and sent to jail. He would go on to write his book

Kristallnacht

Night of broken glass, night of violence and hatred torwad jewish

Reichstag Fire

Fire set by the Germans on the German Parliment which was blammed on a Polish boy.

Mein Kampf

Hitlers book that he wrote in jail, discussing his story, values, etc.

Black Shirts

Mussoulini’s henchmen, would scare, intimadate you if you didn’t belive with him

Embargos

After Japan invaded China, America, Britian, China, and the Netherlands all cut off trade with Japan, creating an embargo

Sabre Rattling

Pre - emptive strike, shooting them down before they would even have a chance, trying to avoid a stronger attack

Pearl Harbor

Pre emptive strike on the U.S. from Japan. Happens 2 years beofre the war, what would eventually bring the U.S. into the war

Anschluss

Union between Germany and Austria

Axis ALliance

Alliance between Germany, Japan, and Italy

Meiji Restoration

Shogun is no longer in control, it is now Emperors, Emperor Hirohito

Fuherer

Hitler’s new title after he gave himself all power from chancolr and president