Went over test questions.
WWI
- Ear of imperialism
- Started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the next kind of Austria-Hungary
Major causes: Militarism, Imperialism, Nationalism, Alliances
- Allies joined in the war-this is what made the war so big. The reason it was so long is because they wanted each others land.
Treaty of Versailles: Treaty that officially ended WWI
- Signed at the Paris Peace Conference
- U.S. never signed it
- Germany had to: lose land, dismantle military, pay $33 billion in war costs, accept war guild clause, league of nations was set up.
Return to Normalcy
- 1920-1930: we went back to isolationism
- Germany was taking over everyone but we didn't do anything
Great Depression
WW2
- Japan invaded china in 1937
- Pearl harbor 12/7/1941(how U.S. got involved)
Post-WW2
- U.S. and Soviet Union became the two would superpowers
- Cold war started
- Nuclear arms race started
- United Nations was established
- Geneva Convention-1949
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