WWII and Interwar Years Review

declaration that confirmed Britain's support for the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine (1917)

• Treaty of Versailles

• Balfour Declaration

• Nuremberg Law

• Axis Power Declaration

Terms of the Treaty of Versailles (1919)

• Germany: Blamed, Reparations owed, Arms (military) reduced, Territories lost

• France: Blamed, Reparations owed, Arms (military) reduced, Territories lost

Many interwar year dictators (Mussolini, Franco, Hitler) ran this type of government

• Democratic

• Communist

• Fascist

• Theocracy

Characteristics of Fascism

• extreme nationalism, use of violence and terror, support private enterprise

• use of violence and terror, economic equality, opposes private enterprise

During the 20 years between WWI and WWII which factor led to the rise of totalitarian leaders?

• political stability

• economic conditions

• expansion of rights

a brutal political campaign led by Joseph Stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat in the 1930s

• Nuremberg Trials

• Great Purge

• Holocaust

• Final Solution

laws that took away citizenship rights and other rights from Jews (1935)

• Nuremberg Laws

• Nazi-Soviet Pact

• Balfour Declaration

• Great Purge

extreme inflation (increase in prices--occurred during the Weimar Republic)

• appeasement

• liberation

• hyperinflation

• self-determination

the Nazi regime in Germany from January 30, 1933, to May 8, 1945

• Weimar Republic

• Allies

• Black Shirts

• Third Reich

Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation in order to prevent war

• blitzkreig

• appeasement

• collectivization

• annexation