History 20
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Unit Three Review Questions
a. Total war~ civilian casualties and women at work
World War~ victories in Europe, Mediterranean, Africa, and far east
Offensive war~ New weapons
Naval Battles~ Battle of pacific and Atlantic
Massive Destruction~ 55 million dead
~ Carpet bombing of civilians
~ The Genocide of the Jews
~ Prisoner of war camp treatment
Short Term
Devastation and loss of life
Recognition of the Holocaust
Overthrow of fascist govt
Founding of United Nations
Demilitarization of Japan and Germany
Long Term
Cold war
Division of Germany (east and west)
NATO and Warsaw Defences
Development of Nuclear capability
Rise of nationalist movements
4. Yalta & Potsdam Conference
Feb 1945 at the Yalta conference Germany was divided into occupations zones and would pay an indemnity, and the UN suggested free election in Poland for pro Soviet govt.
July 1945, the Potsdam conference was the last meeting of the Big Three (Britain, US, and Soviet Union). Truman demanded free elections in Eastern Europe but Stalin refused because they would be anti soviet.
5. After the war there were trails against 22 surviving Nazi leader for crimes against humanity, and the trial were held to bring awareness of the holocaust
7. Division of Germany
In 1949 West Germany was formed when the Britain, France, and American occupation troops leave, and In 1955 East Germany was formed as a satellite state of Russia
In August of 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki(August 9), The Soviet Union declared war on Japan(August 8), and Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally(August 14).
Possitive
~ needed to get rid of Japans 2nd Army Headquarters
~ Needed to shorten the agony of the war, and it may have saved millions of lives that would have been lost of the war did not end
~ Revenge of Pearl Harbour
~ Japanese was a strong opponent and an invasion would have cost American millions of young lives
Negative
~ mostly women and children civilians killed