Core: Power and Authority
The purpose of this signing this was to develop a treaty that would punish Germany for their actions during the war.
Shanty Towns of temporary shelters for the unemployed and homeless during Hoover presidency
GEACPS
Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere
Involved Stalin, Truman and Churchill. During the conference, Truman gets the news that the first successful nuclear bomb test has occurred.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
The forced union of Austria and Germany in March 1938
What is the Anschluss?
Communist dictator within the Soviet Union after the death of Lenin.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
A national ban on the making, transporting, and selling of alcohol in the 1920s
What is Prohibition?
Countries that fell to Japan by 1942
Burma, Phillipines, Singapore, Dutch East Indies
What was the purpose the NPT?
Non-Proliferation Treaty to end spread of and testing of nuclear weapons
A policy of concessions, such as Britain and France made to Hitler to try and avoid war
What is appeasement?
Fire on the 27th February 1933 gave Hitler the opportunity to suspend basic rights by an emergency decree
What is the Reichstag fire?
Event in 1929 which triggered public mistrust in banks
What is the Wall Street Crash?
Turning points in the war
Coral Sea, Midway, Battle of Guadalcanal, New Guinea
UN program to share nuclear technology for peaceful purposes
Atoms for Peace
A end of conflict, such as the terms signed on the Western Front in 1918 to cease fighting
What is armistice?
Racial, Aryan purity with the absence of inferior races, particularly Jews but including other races.Belief that these races can be eliminated or "die out"
What is Social Darwinism?
A period of severe dust storms and drought which caused farmers to abandon their land
What is the Dust Bowl?
Reasons for use of the A Bomb
End the war, Japanese refused to surrender, conditions of surrender, projected loss of American lives in a ground war
Incident in reaction to environmental impact of French Nuclear Testing that led to international protests and a call to end nuclear testing
Rainbow Warrior Incident
The Syrian political party of the ruling elite which spread into other Middle Eastern countries
What is the Ba'Ath Party?
The expansion of Germany towards the east at the expense of Slavic people, giving the people extra "living space"
What is Lebensraum?
US President elected in 1932 who drafted the New Deal
Strategy used to push Japan back towards mainland Japan
Two pronged attack
Any nuclear action by one side would meet with immediate nuclear retaliation from the other.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
The selling of illegally made alcohol during the Prohibition Era
What is Bootlegging?