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Down: 1) 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. 2) Father of the Atomic Bomb3) Quota Act - set caps on how many people we will let in from each country. National Origins Act - sets caps on how many people will let in from each country. Used immigration stats from 19th century and delays some peoples immigrantion because it ends up leaning more towards the old immigrant groups. 4) 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. 6) KKK is shown as positive because of a three hour film. Shows how acceptable racism was at the time. Upswing in lynchings and a lot more racial problems. 8) 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. 9) Determines what were doing with Germany. Ends with the allies calling for Japans unconditional surrender that it doesn't receive. 11) 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. 12) 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. 16) "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. 18) 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. 20) 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.21) 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. 22) Pass over really strong islands protected by Japan. Target little islands first. Even those are a challenge. Want to isolate the stronghold islands. 23) Agrees to give Hitler the Sudetenland but that is it. 24) 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. 28) 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. 30) 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. 31) One of the Islands in the pacific. People get stuck here for a long time. 33) Europe ends up taking up an appeasement policy. Saying if they give Hitler what he wants he might stop. What he wants is the Sudetenland, an area in Czechoslovakia. Across: 5) 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. 7) '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. 10) 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. 13) Japanese do not have the manpower to fully conquer China because the area of China is so big. If Japan can cripple our navy enough this should be enough to finish their expansion in Asia enough to get on our feet & go over there and contest that. 14) Germany, Italy & Japan. 15) Continue to accept the literalness of the bible. Reject new scientific findings and theories. 17) 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. 19) Leader of the Soviet Union25) 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. 26) Continued Axis advancement. Try to cut off oil supply. Britian is now the only place that is not occupied. Eventually causes tides to start turning. U-Boats - 100 UBoats sink 100 US ships. 27) 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. 29) Defense: John Scopes Prosecution: William Jennings Bryan Scopes decided he agrees and breaks the law and teaches evolution in school. Trial gets alot of attention. Press takes Scopes side. Scope gets fined because he broke the law. 32) 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. 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) Accept the scientific advances and adjust their lives accordingly. Sought to adapt to new scientific findings. Bible no longer taken as literal. 36) 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. 37) 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 & Guam38) 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. 39) 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. 40) 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. 41) 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. 42) 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.
 

 

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