1. WWII Study Guide – 7C

2. Russia Russian Leaders Accomplishments /Disappointments
Tsar Nicholas II
Vladimar Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Accomplishments /Disappointments
Xxx
Bolshevik Revolution
Failed 5 Year Plan / Collectivization of agriculture that led to starvation
Russia

3. 1. Which nation? Richest nation after WWI, made lots of consumer goods in the 1920s, but Great Depression in 1930s United States
2. Which nation? Humiliated after WWI, severely punished in Versailles Treaty Germany
3. Which nation? Destroyed by WWI,
quit the war early, became the first communist nation during WWI
Russia
Between the Wars ( )

4. 1. A political system in which the gov’t controls all land, factories, farms in order to create an equal society
Communism
2. A political system in which gov’t is controlled by a dictator, leaders promote extreme nationalism (Pride of the state comes first), but people can keep property & businesses
Fascism
Rise of Dictators

5. 1. Name the dictator: Ruled the Soviet Union, created Five Year Plans, cult of personality, used Great Purge to eliminate rivals - STALIN
2. Name the dictator: Led the Nazis, wrote Mein Kampf, was chancellor of Germany - HITLER
3. Name the dictator: created Fascist Party, formed Blackshirts, led march on Rome - MUSSOLINI
4. Name the dictator: Was military dictator of Japan, aggressively expanded in Asia
YOJO
Dictators

6. Causes of WWII Japan Italy Germany
Expand Empire
China / Manchuria / East Indies
Revenge / Imperial Conquest
Ethiopia / Albania
Lebensraum – “Living space”
Poland / Sudetenland
1. Name 1 example of each nation’s aggressive expansion before WWII: and Why?
Causes of WWII