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Long term causes of WW1

Changing family structure, developed sciences, disruption of traditional gender roles, voting rights for men and women, economic advances, refugee displacement.

Immediate cause of WW1

Assassination of the archduke.

Schlieffen Plan

Germany attacks France then Russia in an outbreak of war.

Trench Warfare

Holes dug, trenches, no man’s land, impacts include boredom, mud, diseases, slow death, and more.

Zimmerman Telegram

Informed the U.S. of Germany's plot to involve Mexico in invading the U.S.

Wilson’s 14 points

Themes include freedom, peace, and communication.

Treaty of Versailles

Ended WW1, terms included territorial, military, and financial aspects.

Post-WW1 Germany

Broke, in debt, weak, and socially degraded.

Alliances during WW1

Triple Alliance (Germany, Austro-Hungary, Ottoman Empire) and Triple Entente (Britain, France, Russia).

Role of Propaganda in WW1

To enlist soldiers, gain trust, and damage enemies' reputation.

Outcomes of WW1

Disorientation, displacement of families, fear, death toll, PTSD.

Characteristics of a totalitarian leader

Lack of democracy, absolute control, no opposition.

Rise of Fascism in Italy and Germany

Extreme nationalism, regain pride because of social degradation of other countries.

Characteristics of Fascism

Extreme nationalism, racial superiority, suppression of opposition.

Similarities and differences between Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin

Totalitarianism, extreme nationalism, charismatic personality.

Stalin’s economic policies

Collectivization, command economy, Five Year Plan.

Rise of dictatorships in Europe

Due to slow democracy, crisis, need for leadership.

Impacts of WW1 on Germany

Financial burden, political restrictions.

Dawes Plan

US loans to Germany to pay reparations and stabilize the economy.

Hitler’s goals for Germany

Create a pure empire, unify German-speaking people.

Impacts of Stalin’s rule

Purges, power seizure, propaganda, totalitarianism.

Causes of WW2

Hitler’s aggression, League of Nations failure, Appeasement policy.

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

Pact between Hitler and Stalin to avoid two-front wars.

Appeasement

Allowing prohibited behavior to prevent conflict.

Characteristics of Blitzkrieg

Fast-paced, unpredictable, offensive.

Outcomes of WW2

Creation of the United Nations, emergence of superpowers.

Themes of the first half of the 20th century

Totalitarianism, dictatorship, socialism, fascism.

Reasons for popularity of dictatorships post-WW1

Economic failure, social degradation.

Manipulation by interwar dictators

Charisma leading to control and support.

Similarity and difference between Stalin and Hitler

Goals for power, ideology on equality.

Similarities between Hitler and Mussolini

Ideology, socialism and fascism.

Differences in warfare between WW1 and WW2

Chemical warfare and trench wars vs. Blitzkrieg and static defenses.