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Final Jeopardy
Between the
Wars
Europe
Theater
Pacific
Theater
Dates
Post WWII
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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 Germany
Itself, 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.
•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)
International recognition of the special role of the
world’s most powerful nations in preserving peace
Europe ceased to be
the dominate power in
the world.