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Anti- Communism
The opposition to communism . It develops in reaction to the growing power of the communist movement after the Soviet Union was established in 1917. The first waves had something to do with monarchists , christians , classical leberals , & social democrats to 1922. The liveral democracies took the lead in the opposing Soviet communism during the Cold War. -
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty was a peace that ended of World War 1. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Also the winning nations drafted the treaty to adress the issues like the territoral adjustments and etc. Lastly the treated punished Germany and left bitter feelings. The treaty negoitated between January and June during 1919 in Paris as well. -
Rise of Italian fascism
Fascism is a totalitarian form of the government. It glorifies the state , one leader , & one party. All the aspects of the society is controlled by the government . Benito Mussolin came to power and helped found the political ideology of facism.He also sided sided with the Axis in the nineteen forties. -
U.S. Isolation
Isolationism refers to America's longstanding reluctance was involved in European alliances and wars. Isolationists held the view that America's perspective on the world . It was different from European societies . So America could advance the cause of freedom and democracy by means other than war. -
Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party
They demanaded the union of all Germans in a Great Germany on the basis of the principle of self-determination of all peoples. Demanded that the German people have rights equal to those of other nations; and that the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain shall be abrogated.In February of 1920, Hitler urged the German Workers' Party to holds its first mass meeting. He met strong opposition from leading party members who thought it was premature and feared it might be disrupted by Marxists. -
Nationalism
The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination. A nation differs from a tribe in that it is larger. The greater literacy, and the improved communications and transportation rendered by industrialization make the nation possible. The nation is unlike an empire, which is held together by military force, -
Appeasement
The policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers. In order for them to avoid conflict, governed Anglo-French foreign in the 1930's. It was associated with Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. The word appease means to bring french in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1933. In WW2 during 1939 to 1945 negative connotations did not solidify in the English speaking . -
Militarism
Was one of the main causes of the First World War. After 1907, there was an increase in military influence on policy making. This could be reflected particularly in Germany and Russia. The German Army at this period was called a "State within the State. In 1904-05, Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. This was the first time any Asian power had defeated a major European power. -
WW2
A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States.The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese.Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe.Four of every five German soldiers killed in the war died on the Eastern Front. -
Great Depression
The great deppression was forced to close because they were out of money . People was doing everything on credit and crediting money that they din't have .The Dust Bowl during the Great Depression led to widespread migration, including 200,000 people who moved to California, most arriving with no money, family, or resources.President Franklin D. Roosevelt steered America through most of the Great Depression years, taking office in March 1933, and serving four terms, dying in office in April 1945 -
Japanese Expansionism
In 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria for raw materials.In 1938, war broke out between Japan and the Soviet Union .In were known as the Soviet-Japanese Border Wars.The Pacific War sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theatre of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and East Asia.
