WW2 Causes Word Bank Word Bank Japan Imperialism Depression Italy Arms Race Debt Germany Nationalism Versailles Poland Alliances Dictators Causes of WW2 contained the following. When a country takes over other nations it is called _______________. The love of one’s own country is __________________. When nations compete to build the most and best weapons they are involved in an __________________. The Axis, that included Germany, Japan and Italy, and the Allies, that had Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union were both ________________. The Treaty of _______________ was also a cause of WW2. Five events help lead to this war. Germany was in great _____________. There was a World Wide ________________. Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were all ______________ that had total control over their nations. _______________ took over Manchuria. ______________ took over Ethiopia. The Rhineland, the Sudetenland, Austria and Czechoslovakia were all taken by ___________________. In September of 1939, Germany attacked _______________.