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Down: 1) 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. 2) 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. 4) 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. 5) Agrees to give Hitler the Sudetenland but that is it. 6) 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. 8) "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. 9) 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. 13) 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 & Guam14) Attempts to consolidate Asia under Japanese rule. Japanese view themselves as the most superior of all the Asian cultures. Manchuria, China - Japanese forces invade. Japan is unable to take over China because of the size difference between large China & small Japan. 15) Meeting of the big 3. Tehran, Iran. Main topic of discussion -- taking down Vichy, France. Attack using element of surprise. Wants to surround Germany. Amphibious landing - attack the beaches. Brutal usually many lives are lost. Going to attack Germany on two sides and try and spread their army too thin. 18) 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. 19) 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. 20) 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. 23) 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. 24) 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. 27) The U.S. should take a stand to support a world based on these things and protect a world based on these things. Each one of these is against what Hitler is doing. Freedom of Speech. Freedom of worship. Freedom from want. Freedom from fear. 28) 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. 30) One of the Islands in the pacific. People get stuck here for a long time. 31) Over 60 million dead - 38 million civillians - 7 million Germans - 23 million USSR - 2 million Japanese. Holocaust - 11 million dead. US Losses (Small in comparison) 400,000 military deaths, 11,000 civilian deaths, no major destruction after Pearl Harbor. 32) 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. 33) Germany, Italy & Japan. 34) 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. 35) 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. 38) 'Lightening War' a war tactic that they go and hit them as hard & as fast as they can which comes as a surprise. German armies have taken over and attacked Paris. Beginnings of genocide - beginning of what could be the Holocaust. Begins to round up the Jews, Gypsies and others to concentration camps. Death camps become up and running. 40) 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. Across: 3) 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. 7) Pacific Theatre & European Theatre10) Greater US presence, things move faster, all defeats, we lose to the Philippines, try to take Hawaii. Stop expansion when the Japanese try to knock us out at Midway Island and they failed. 11) Professional sports take off in popularity. Radios are becoming more accessible. Movies also begin to take off, get the shift from silent films to talking. Dancing is becoming more popular, jazz music is getting more popular. 12) (1) Atomic Power - During the war we developed the bomb & used it & got horrifying results. Soviets have their own program to develop one now. Best thing to do is get rid of the technology and forget it ever happened. US ordered stopping all development and use of atomic bombs. Distrust gets in the way. Neither side is willing to budge. Soviets end up achieving the bomb. No one wants to disarm first because of fear that the other one will not follow. (2) Stalin's insistence on creating a buffer zone in Central Europe. The debate of what to do with destroyed Europe comes up and Stalin wants a buffer zone. USSR forces liberated this area so now they are currently residing in these areas of Europe. Start setting up Soviet friendly governments. "Satellite State". US looks as this as a threat of peaceful states. Iron Curtain - Soviet control of states. Idea that communism could be advancing freaks out the US. 16) The Depression Worldwide depression. 17) Accept the scientific advances and adjust their lives accordingly. Sought to adapt to new scientific findings. Bible no longer taken as literal. 21) Father of the Atomic Bomb22) 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"25) Continue to accept the literalness of the bible. Reject new scientific findings and theories. 26) 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. 29) American diplomat stationed in Moscow, Russia. Drafts this telegram back home that shapes our foreign policy for the next 50 years. Lays out the situation that the soviets are doing. Says we should fight back by - educating the public on Soviet threat. Promote democracy abroad. Turn our eyes inward and solve our own social problems so that the Soviets cannot exploit them. Sets the framework for the containment policy. 36) 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.37) German occupied France39) 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. 41) 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. 42) U.S., Great Britian, Soviet Union. Official alliance against Hitler. Stalin doesn't want to sign on the Atlantic Charter because he wants Poland. FDR and Churchill need to form an official alliance because right now only the USSR is fighting. 43) 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. 44) 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. 45) 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. 46) Threat of 'utter destruction'. "Little boy" was the codename for the bomb dropped. Drops up to power of 20,000 tons of TNT. It was estimated to only cause 20,000 deaths but caused over 166,000 deaths. They didn't take into account the after effects of the bomb like fires, radiation poisoning. The after effects were just as deadly if not worse than the initial blast.
 

 

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