AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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They were content with the amounts of territory they controlled.
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Their forms of nationalism were linked to racism.
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They threatened democracy and wanted to spread communism.
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They felt mistreated by the treaties that ended World War I.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Resentment against the imperialist hegemons of the day-Britain and France-and the thwarting of Japan and Germany’s revisionist and expansionist aims during this crisis supplied common ground between the two countries. Japanese imperialism and Nazism also each brandished ferocious ideologies of racial superiority.
Detailed explanation-2: -Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union were b) all totalitarian states.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) were opposed by the Allied Powers (led by Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union). Five other nations joined the Axis during World War II: Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Croatia. The decline and fall of the Axis alliance began in 1943.
Detailed explanation-4: -What did Italy, Germany, and Japan have in common in the 1930s? They sought to solve their nations’ problems through conquest. What prompted the United States to enter the war in 1941? terror and purges.