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Click to begin. Click here for Final Jeopardy Between the Wars Europe Theater Pacific Theater Dates Post WWII 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 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.