AP World War II

Why was the United Nations founded?

• To ensure that Germany would never become powerful again

• To ensure that another Holocaust could never happen

• To try and preserve peace and international cooperation

• To protect Europe against Russia

The Nuremberg Trials, Tokyo Trials, and the Trial of Slobodan Milošević are all examples of...

• carrying out international justice

• Genocidal Mania

• The violation of the Geneva Conventions

• Corruption and collusion in justice

Neocolonialism is best-defined as

• Western efforts to expand colonial holdings after WWII

• post-WWII population boom in developing nations

• economic dependence of developing nations after decolonization

• colonization of Latin America after independence from Spain

Payment for damages after a war is called

• Demilitarization

• Self-determination

• Reparations

How did the German people react to the Treaty of Versailles?

• They were ok with it because they realized that they lost the war

• They loved it because it was so favorable to them

• They hated it because it treated them severely

• Most Germans didn't really care

True or false?  Germany had to get rid of its air force, submarines, and large battleships due to the Treaty of Versailles.

• True

• False

Which of the following are clauses within the Treaty of Versailles?

• Germany army is limited to 100,000 men

• Rhineland is demilitarized

• No air force

• The people were not allowed to vote on their leaders

Leader of the Nazi party

• Mussolini

• Hitler

• Stalin

• Zedong

Why were reparations introduced by the Allies?

• So the French could invade the Ruhr

• To fund hyperinflation

• To pay for the war damage

• So the Weimar government could be popular

Italian leader Benito Mussolini

• led a march on Rome to overthrow the government

• created the Fascist party

• was elected as Prime Minister

• passed laws to help poor people