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Militarism
Is the policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war. European nations prepared for war by building up their armies and navies. Building of the military led to tensions. She one thought they were bigger than the other they had to become bigger so they were less of a threat. -
Nationalism
Nationalism was an important source of tension in Europe by 1914. Nationalism helped to unite with a common language and culture. People were eager to prove that their nations were better their rivals nations. This was the start of the war because people wanted to have more power and more land which resulted in conflict. -
Imperialism
Different countries scrambling for colonies in Africa and Asia. Each nation wanted new raw material. Two or more nations competed for the same area. This competition sometimes led to wars like world war 1. -
Alliances
Is an agreement between countries to support their shared interests. The alliance system increased tensions because any crisis involving one memeber of an alliance affected that nations allies. -
Assasionation of Archduke Franz
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary. His death at the hands of Gavrilo Princip – a Serbian nationalist with ties to the secretive military group known as the Black Hand – propelled the major European military powers towards war. -
Russia vs Japanese war
The Russo-Japanese War developed out of the rivalry between Russia and Japan for dominance in Korea and Manchuria. The war began on February 8, 1904, when the main Japanese fleet launched a surprise attack and siege on the Russian naval squadron at Port Arthur. The Russians won the war and gained power and now have a new government. -
Collapse of Russia's government
The Russian Revolution of 1917 involved the collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks. It sparked the beginning of a new era in Russia that had effects on countries around the world. -
Economic of Great Depression
The stock market crash of 1929 touched off a chain of events that plunged the United States into its longest, deepest economic crisis of its history. It is far too simplistic to view the stock market crash as the single cause of the Great Depression. A healthy economy can recover from such a contraction. -
Industrialized of the Great Depression
The Industrial Revolution didn't help with the Great Depression because it made it worse that we believed that we could gain money and have stocks and that we could industrialize without the right money. It also made it good though because of the working jobs but we had so much money we spent it on unwanted or undeeded products. -
Japan and the United States
The United States fought the Japanese by island hopping and slowly pushing them off each pasific island. We dropped 2 nuclear bombs and the Japanese surrender and we gained the land. The significance is that we were brought into the war and fought and that we made nuclear bombs that helped during ww2 -
Holacaust
Hitler led the holacaust through genocides attempt to kill large amounts of people to get rid of the Jews target very specific people leading nazis were charged with crimes and trials community coming together to stop them. The impact of the holocaust is to show the ability of human involvement and their actions defining the crimes of genocides which led to the protection of civilians -
The Jewish people and the formation of Israel
Adolf Hitler and the nazis party planned and acted upon or killing the Jewish religion 2,000 drove Jewish people away Palestinian Britain helped the Jews get back to Israel. The significance is this the Jews got out of Germany. -
The international community
US president League of Nations Woodrow Wilson Japan and Germany left when they didn't want to be a part of the League of Nations. The allies powers created the United Nations after ww2 the United Nations now has peace and help from their fellow allies. Trying to prevent another war from occurring -
Growing Russia influences
US and Soviets become new world leaders Germany is defeated Britain and France were tired of war Roosevelt and Churchill had opposing to Stalin. Cold War a state of tension between countries. Denied the western allies repetitions for Germany. -
Europe after ww2
The US and Soviet Union freed Europe from the nazis the United States wanted all the nations to be capitalists democratic. Stalin wanted them to be a communist -
Anti ballistic missles
These weapons we're used to shoot down missiles launched by hostile nations. They were considered a threat because they could give one side more protection which might encourage it to attack. They helped in war and they were very good weapons to have but it also was scary because it could misdirect -
NATO
The United States helped form the North Atlantic treaty organization which compromised Western European allies. The Soviet Union signed the Warsaw Pact with Eastern European countries. The line between the democratic west and communists east was called the iron curtain -
Détente
They ceased war and they limited the number of nuclear weapons that nations could maintain. This period in time was the Détente period. The period where not war was going on and everything was at peace. This ended though when the soviets invaded Afghanistan -
Superpowers
The Soviet Union and United States emerged as superpowers. They each created military alliances made up of nations they protected or occupied. This led up to the signing of the NATO. -
Containment
This was a strategy of keeping communisum from spreading to other nations. A red scare in the United States resulted in senator Joseph McCarthy leading an internal hunt for communists in the government and military. The HUAC also sought out communists sympathizers
