WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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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: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -These countries were led by German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and Japanese Emperor Hirohito. In September 1940, the three countries formalized their alliance through the Tripartite Pact. Five other countries subsequently joined the Tripartite Pact and became Axis powers.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Italian, German, Japanese, and Soviet authoritarian efforts in the 1920s and 1930s had their differences. But we can also see similarities in the ways that they emerged. For example, all of them embraced nationalism, and they all found ways to justify violence against civilians.