Humanities WW2 revision

Treaty of Versailles

A peace agreement signed on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles

Weimar Republic

The democratic government in Germany between 1919 and 1933

Hyperinflation

Extremely rapid inflation

Nationalism

Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests

Communism

A theory and system where society has no social classes, private property, or money, and the government owns all resources

Antisemitism

Discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews

NSDAP (Nazi Party)

The National Socialist German Workers Party - the ruling party in Germany 1933-45.

Adolf Hitler

German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)

Joseph Goebbels

Chief minister of the Nazi propaganda, and organizer of Kristallnacht

The Great depression

The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

The League of Nations

An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations

European theatre

The fighting in World War II that occurred in Europe. This consisted of the Allied forces of Great Britain, United States, Russia and France against primarily Germany.

Pacific theatre

The fighting in World War II in the Pacific. This consisted of island hopping as the United States fought against Japan.

Tripartite Pact

Signed between the Axis powers in 1940 (Italy, Germany and Japan) where they pledged to help the others in the event of an attack by the US

Munich Agreement

Agreement between Chamberlain and Hitler that Germany would not conquer any more land, and if did, would declare war

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Russian and German non aggression agreement, not to attack each other, also, divide up Poland

Axis Powers

Germany, Italy, Japan

The allied powers

Great Britain, France, Russia

Invasion of Manchuria

Japan took over in 1931. Invaded for resources

Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

Invasion of Abyssinia

Italy ignored the League of Nations sanctions, quit the League, and made special deals with Britain and France and ultimately established control of this empire in 1935

Benito Mussolini

(1883-1945) Italian leader. He founded the Italian Fascist Party, and sided with Hitler and Germany in World War II. In 1945 he was overthrown and assassinated by the Italian Resistance.

The Hoare-Laval pact

British French agreement in 1935 to appease mussolini and to prevent Italian-German alliance by accepting Italian annexation of land in Abyssinia

appeasement

Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict

Japanese Expansionism

In 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria for raw materials. The same year, Japan began to attack China, with full scale war breaking out in 1937 in the Sino-Japanese War. In 1938, war broke out between Japan and the Soviet Union in what were known as the Soviet-Japanese Border wars.

Bombing of Darwin

February 19, 1942 - Was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia. 242 Japanese aircraft attacked ships in Darwin harbor and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasions of Timor and Java. The town was only lightly defended and the Japanese inflicted heavy losses upon the Allied forces at little cost. The urban areas of Darwin also suffered some damage from the raids and there were a number of civilian casualties.

Fall of Singapore

15 February 1942: Unconditional surrender of the largest British garrison in Asia to a much smaller army of Japanese troops. Left Australia vulnerable to Japanese attack and fundamentally undermined Australians belief in Britain's ability to protect them.

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The attack devastated the American fleet. America declared war on

Japan.

The Kokoda Campaign

A part of the Pacific War of World War II, the campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between Japanese and Allied—primarily Australian—forces in what was then the Australian territory of Papua.

Propaganda

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.