Causes Conflict (All topics) Effect

1. Great Depression created fertile ground for

“isms”:
Marxismproletariat
revolution
1.
Fastinvasion
Blitzkrieg 1. Massive casualties
a. 40 million dead
a. fascism 2. Conquest of the Netherlands, Belgium, France,
b. socialism Poland 2. Big Three negotiate at three conferences:
c. TybggilffikgMilitary
militarism a. Tehran
d.
e.
communism
1wssia
racism (Aryan race vs Jews)
3. Battle of Britain
Bombings b.
c.
Yalta
Potsdam

0 RussiaUK
4. German Invasion of Russia
2. Treaty of Versailles - too harsh on Germany 3. Formation of the United Nations
fuePasrn.a.tions 5. Kristallnacht & The Holocaust

1
3. Appeasement - British and others let Hitler
get away with too much before stepping in 6. Pearl Harbor / D-DayNormandy inv 4. Russian occupation of Eastern Europe

with force. (Invasion of Czechoslovakia) 5. New boundaries

4. Invasion of Poland 7. Battle of Midway (New Tech: Aircraft Carrier)

5. Blitzkriegs
Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) 8. Battle of the Bulge
6 ColdWar
6. Allied Powers (England, United States, Soviet
Union (U.S.S.R., Russia), and France. 9. Hitler’s Death (4/30/1945)
suicide
7. Nazi-Soviet Pact 10. Germany Surrenders (5/8/1945)
Inoffkivshsia
8. Japanese Imperialism
a. Invasion of China / Rape of Nanking
11. Hiroshima (8/6/1945)
a.
Fatman
100,000 civilians killed
b. Desire for SE Asia which was
controlled, in part, by the U.S. (Pearl
Harbor Attack)
12. Nagasaki (8/9/1945)
a.
LittleBoy
40,000 civilians killed

13. Japan Surrenders (8/14/1945)

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