All terms in this list:

Treaty of Versailles: - peace treaty that ended world war I
- Germany blamed and was punished for WWI
- Economy is ruined and in debt
-Resented how they were treated

Mussolini: Italian Fascist party- dictator of Italy
Fascism- extreme patriotism and nationalism racial superiority dictatorship

Hitler: -National Socialist Workers' Party (Nazi Party)
-Dictator
-German superiority

Tojo: Japan- Prime Minister
-Invade Asian territory
-Wanted raw/natural resources

Totalitarianism: -Citizen are subject to an absolute state authority Axis Powers
-Germany
-Italy
-Japan

Great Depression: -World's economy to collapse
-spread of unrest and despair
-foreign countries turn to dictators to fix economic problems

Appeasement- Munich Agreement: -Germany threatens military force
-British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met Hitler in Munich
-Compromise- Hitler promised to stop future aggression if given Czechoslovakia
-Chamberlain gave into Hitler's threat (appeasement)

Invasion of Poland: - September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland
Breaking promise made during the Munich Agreement to stop aggression
France and Great Britain declare war in Germany

Pearl Harbor: -Japan needed raw materials from other Asian countries
-U.S. Navy in the Pacific- in their way
-Japan attacked U.S. at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941
-Brought U.S. into WWII on the side of the Allies