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| 6472011419 | Path to WW2: Asia | 1) 1931: Japan invades Manchuria (Northeastern China) 2) Japan wants to create a new East Asian Empire 3) 1937: Japan lands a full scale invasion of China and starts WW2 4) 1940: America starts economic sanctions against Japan 5) Dec 7, 1941: Japan attacks US Naval Base Pearl Harbor and America joins the War | 0 | |
| 6472445057 | Deeper causes of WW2 in Asia | 1) Japanese militarism/aggression 2) Japanese nationalism 3) Great Depression (enabled rise of authoritarianism) | 1 | |
| 6472464440 | Path of WW2 in Europe | 1) 1933: Hitler comes to power in Germany 2) 1935-1936: Hitler began rearming Germany against Treaty of Versailles 3) Britain and France, afraid of another war, instituted a policy of appeasement 4) 1938: Munich Conference - Germany annexed a part of Czechoslovakia, which had a large culturally German population 5) Sept 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland and starts WW2 | 2 | |
| 6472503574 | liebestraum | "living space": the idea that Germans are the superior race and therefore deserve more land to live on | 3 | |
| 6472521764 | Deeper causes of WW2 in Europe | 1) liebestraum and German nationalism 2) German militarism 3) Great Depression & the Treaty of Versailles 4) appeasement | 4 | |
| 6472557636 | Allied Powers (major) | Britain, America, USSR, France | 5 | |
| 6472557637 | Axis Powers | Germany, Japan, Italy | 6 | |
| 6472535988 | End of World War 2 | September 2, 1945 | 7 | |
| 6472569991 | Outcomes of WW2 | 1) massive death toll: 60 million 2) 2 most hurt countries: USSR (25 million) and China (15 million) 3) Holocaust: Genocide 4) rearranged world power 5) Cold War between US and USSR 6) International Peace Efforts: organizations were created to help solve conflicts peacefully (United Nations, EU, etc) | 8 | |
| 6438277593 | International Monetary Fund | created to help countries with economic and financial problems | 9 | |
| 6472611315 | Rearranged world power after WW2 | 1) Europe is not the most dominant region anymore 2) US and USSR emerge as new world powers 3) Europe is divided between East (communism) and West (democracy) 4) colonial independence and the end of empires | 10 | |
| 6438288533 | Marshall Plan | 1) American plan to invest money into Europe to help them rebuild 2) 12 Billion 3) widely successful | 11 | |
| 6438339903 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | 1) treaty of security and defense 2) Canada, USA, and Western Europe had an alliance 3) western europe felt more secure while recovering because of the treaty | 12 | |
| 6438365736 | European Union (EU) | 1) preceded by the European Coal and Steel Community (1951) 2) formed in 1994 3) a union of political and economic agreement to help Europe overcome their rivalry | 13 | |
| 6438421694 | Resiliency of Industrial Societies | rebuilding an industrial country in an industrial society is easier | 14 |
