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Down: 2) US based on a capitalist system and USSR is based on communism. They're fundamentally at odds with each other. Communism is based on the idea of spreading. If communism spreads that means the destruction of the US capitalistic society. We've seen these issues becoming a sticking point (Potsdam Declaration). Cooperation in this post war world between the West and East won't happen. 3) It takes a world war & the economic boom that comes with it. Going to a war immediately creates thousands of jobs for guys as soldiers. 5) Pacific Theatre & European Theatre7) One of the Islands in the pacific. People get stuck here for a long time. 9) Personally blamed for the Great Depression. Humanitarian and progressive, one of the few people who got out of the stock market in time. Believed the government should leave the economy alone. 11) Japan surrenders after we drop the bomb on Nagasaki. Why Japan has surrendered when it did: 1) The shock and destruction brought on fear of more bombs. 2) It wasn't the bombs alone, but also the Soviets were seeing such fast and swift success & it made it clear to those in charge that the Japanese military structure could not endure anymore. 3) Combined effect of both. 13) Focused on improving relationships closer to home. Signed various amounts of treaties with Central America. This could be an economic boost that we cannot ignore and cannot refuse. This ends up boosting the American economy. 14) Continue to accept the literalness of the bible. Reject new scientific findings and theories. 16) Saw politics as a game. Members of his own social class hated him because they thought he was a traitor of his class because they believe they are better than everyone else. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" Changes in the white house weren't affecting the average person. FDR did not support Sinclair and decided to support his opponent. 17) Gets its name by a metaphor used by President Eisenhower. He uses dominoes as a metaphor for unstable countries. If one falls to communist rule so will the next & so will the next, like dominos. 18) Tensest conference. Increasing distrust of Stalin. News of successful US atomic bomb test. Hostility over post-war world and terms of peace. Stalin demands Germany can never wage war again - wants to take 20 billion dollars in reparations. 20) Japanese aircraft appear in the sky above Pearl Harbor. 8 US battle ships are sunk. None of the ships that are sunk actually end up going all the way down under the water. Some ships can be repaired and reused. Japan also launches attacks on US in Philippines & Guam21) The growing influence of the Temperance Movement and prohibition. Amendment is passed that makes it illegal to produce & sell alcohol. This leads to a lot of organized crome. 23) German occupied France25) Gives FDR the power to lend weapons to any nation fighting the Axis Powers. Gives us the ability to give them stuff to help them with war, instead of lending them the weapons for money like previously. 26) Cut income taxes. He believed government should leave the economy alone. "Prosperity was just around the corner" - Americans didn't buy this and turned on the president with a vengeance. 27) Left standing because it is an island & being an island is very hard to invade. The Blitz - London. Sets stage for US involvement. The destruction done by Britain is pretty extensive. London is under blackout. We are creeping gradually closer & closer, even if Pearl Harbor never happened, we would have still gotten involved at some point. 30) Fear of communist takeover in America. Palmer Raids - arrest & deportation of many people. Sacco & Vanzetti - two italian immigrats living in MA who are anarchists. Become suspects in a payroll vice & end up convicted without evidence. 32) A lot of things are changing for women, the role of women. Begins with the 19th amendment and women's rights to vote. 'Flapper culture' hair and dresses get shorter, women start drinking & smoking in public. Dances like the charleston become popular. Want to distinguish themselves different from their parents culture. 37) The Normandy invasion. Hitler knew something was brewing but he didn't know when or where. Known as D-Day or Operation Overlord. Goes as planned - an amphibious invasion. Not just us, also British and Canadians. Assault is split up into 5 beaches (Juno, Sword, Gold, Omaha, Utah) Invasion was almost a complete disaster, allied air power missed their mark due to visibility conditions. Germans land at full strength. People who made it to the beach were killed by machine gun fire. Radios waterlogged. Manages to open up a way into France. Across: 1) Chamberlain resigns because of embarrassment of the appeasement policy. Feels alliance with the U.S. = key to success. Relationship with FDR - over the next few years the two become very close and this remains until FDR death. 4) Pulled out of the depression. Defies treaty of Versailles. Eugenics - based on ideas of racial hierarchy. These ideas are going to eventually lead to the Holocaust. Hitler occupied the Rhineland, another violation of the treaty of Versailles. Annexes German speaking Austria.6) Germany, Italy & Japan. 8) Greatest stock market crash. Crops rotted in fields because they were not worth picking. 10) "Silent Cal". Continued Harding's laissez-faire policies. Kellog-Briand Pact - foreign affair idea. Multi-lateral pact saying that there will be no more war and that they signed it with other people. 12) The day that all German forces surrender. May 8th. The war in Europe is over, Hitler is dead (suicide). FDR has died so he doesn't live to see the war ending. War as a whole is not over, Japan has not surrendered. 15) Agrees to give Hitler the Sudetenland but that is it. 19) Did the same thing as Hitler did. Followed in Hitler's footsteps. Neither Hitler nor Mussolini will stop at economic reform. Also looks to expansion. 22) Not a war of conquest. U.S. commits itself to defeat of Germany - committed us to the defeat of Germany & the victory of our allies without officially declaring war. Undeclared naval war - allowing the use of our navy to escort our allies across.24) Desperate German counter offensive in Belgium. Kind of a success. Force allied troops to recede 50 miles. Largest battle that takes place on the western front. Stalls the allied progress. Now soviets can pick up the speed of their process. Battle ends when the Germans fail to capture Bastogne, Belgium. Now allies can see success is within reach. 28) First send in traditional bombs to blow off roofs of buildings. Then send down firebombs. Bomb big avenues in the city to prevent rescue missions. 30,000 Germans were killed. Civilian targeting became fairly common. Trying to prevent German troops from moving East. 29) Meet to discuss of post-war world. What should we do after Germany is defeated. Poland is a big point of disagreement between USSR and US and Great Britain. Stalin wants a defensive buffer zone. US wants independent Poland. Want to make sure Stalin doesn't break agreement. 31) Fear of Soviet entrance. Original target: Kokura (weather and lingering smoke from previous bombing raid made it impossible so they continued onto Nagasaki). 36,000 immediate death toll. Invaded near mainland the same day. Wasn't as much damage because of geography. After this bomb is dropped the soviets open the second front then we get Japanese surrender. 33) Accept the scientific advances and adjust their lives accordingly. Sought to adapt to new scientific findings. Bible no longer taken as literal. 34) After the war is over, the four powers (including China) will after the war is over work together to use our military mightiness to ensure world peace. This allows the Grand Alliance to be created. 35) Mobs would invade and attack black communities injuring and killing many along with destroying property. This has pushed a lot of African American population to the point of anger. "Red Summer" Increasing tensions out of the N and S. N is concerned about African American's taking their jobs. As more move N whites begin to get concerned. In the S people are more concerned with African Americans who are veterans of World War I. 36) Leader of the Soviet Union38) 1 out of 4 Americans were out of work. Landslide victory for FDR and the democrats. Depression worsened. Hoover and FDR did not get along. 39) Championed post WWI isolationism. Reversed progressive tendencies. Teapot Dome Scandal - Bribery scandal, the secretary of the interior profited from a leasing of private government oil in Teapot Dome Wyoming in exchange of a bribe. 40) FDR is committed to keep us out of war militarily but this is becoming more and more dangerous so we do have to take steps to be prepared. 41) Signed by Stalin and Hitler secretly to invade and split Poland for them to share. 42) There is a constant fight with who has the best plan for their party. This is the atmosphere the Nazis come to power. Hitler distinguished himself as the leader of the Nazi group. Hitler immediately begins consolidating the government's power. Immediately launches an armament campaign to build up Germany military to relief the Great Depression. Issue because the treaty of Versailles says that Germany cannot have a large army & Hitler is beginning to build it up again. 43) Put millions of Americans back to work. Dig ditched for the WPA. Clearing trails for the CCC. Working people were grateful after years without a regular paycheck. It did not end the great depression. Alleviated stress but the depressed condition of the country continued. 44) Pass over really strong islands protected by Japan. Target little islands first. Even those are a challenge. Want to isolate the stronghold islands. 45) Program Truman launched after Einstein-Szilard letter. over $2 billion, 120,000 scientists and 30 work sites across the nation. Split up the scientists to different work sites to make it so no one could figure out what they were working on. Los Alamos was most famous because it was the main research and development sure and it was where they first tested the bomb. Called the test "Trinity Test"
 

 

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