All terms in this list:

Treaty of Versailles: Peace treaty that ended WWI, Germany blamed & punished for all of WWI, Economy is ruined and in debt, Resented how they were treated.

Mussolini: Italian Fascist party- dictator of Italy
Fascism- Extreme patriotism & nationalism racial superiority, Always a 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 demands

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

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