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Pacific Theater

Between the Wars

Number of years between WWI& WWII.

What is 20 years?

Caused the emergence of totalitarian governments in Germany, Italy, and Spain

during the 1920s and 1930s?

What are Economic and Social issues

stemming from the Treaty of Versailles

after WWI?

•Over Production of Consumer goods

•Inadequate safeguards for banking

•Misguided government policies

•Over speculation in the stock market

What is the Great Depression

of the 1930s?

Response of the US Gov. to the

Great Depression.

What are government issued Public Works

Programs?

(Alphabet Agencies)

to yield or concede to the  belligerent demands of a

group or nation in a conciliatory  effort, sometimes at the 

expense of justice or other principles.

What is appeasement

Helped Hitler gain power in Germany.

What is the Great Depression

People targeted in the Final Solution

What are Jews, Jehovah Witnesses, Gypsies, Disabled,

Homosexuals?

Type of warfare was utilized in the Battle of

Britain by the Nazi Party.

What is blitzkreig?

Captured Berlin?

What the Soviets did that ended the war

in the European Theater?

Last battle that stood Between the allies and

An invasion of GermanyItself, instigated by

Hitler.

What is the Battle of the Bulge?

Battle that turned the tide in the Pacific

Theater.

What is the Battle of Midway?

Caused the Japanese to see the US as a threat and initiate the attack on Pearl Harbor

What is the United States Oil

Embargo against Japan?

Justification for the use of the Atomic Bomb

What is the prevention of high loss of American

life? (“The white house didn’t feel like

American’s could stomach an invasion of

mainland Japan”)

Two main countries invaded by Japan at the beginning of its aggressive rise to

power in the Pacific.

What are Manchuria and China?

The Strategic taking of less protected islands in order to get the Allied forces closer to mainland Japan.

What is Island Hopping?

June 6, 1944

What is D-Day?

May 8, 1945

What is V-E Day

Aug. 14/15 1945

What is V-J Day?

December 7, 1941

What is Pearl Harbor?

 August 6, 1945&

Aug 9, 1945

What are the Dropping of the

Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and

Nagasaki?

Country that had the highest causality rate at the end of WWII.

What is the Soviet Union?

Trial of the Nazis at the end of WWII for the Holocaust.

What are the Nuremburg Trials(they established that people would be

held responsible for war crimes violating human rights)

• Maintain World Peace

• Eliminate Hunger, and Disease

• Prevent Genocide

Goals of the United Nations

Number of People killed in WWII.

~ 70 million

Number of Countries that sit on the Security Council of the United

Nations.

International recognition of the special role of the world’s most powerful nations in preserving peace

•What 15 Members:•Five permanent members: 

•China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States,

•Ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly (with end of term date):

– Angola (2016)

– Chad (2015)

– Chile (2015)

– Jordan (2015)

– Lithuania (2015)

– Malaysia (2016)

– New Zealand (2016)

– Nigeria (2015)

– Spain (2016)

– Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (2016)

Europe ceased to be the dominate power in the world.