Megan Mallory

World History, E-Core

Period 5

5 May 2005

Chapter Review

1. What happened at the Munich Conference of 1938?
1. British and French leaders chose appeasement and persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland without a fight
2. What event started WWII? When did it occur?
1. When the Nazis stormed into Poland and overtook it in less than a month.
3. What event brought the United States into WWII? When did it occur?
1. Pearl Harbor made the United States take part in WWII. It occurred December 7^th, 1941 and the Japanese destroyed 19 ships and killed more than 2,400 people.
4. What means did the Nazi Germany use in its attempt to murder all European Jews?
1. Hitler had “death camps” built in Poland and Germany where Nazi engineers designed efficient means of killing millions of men, women, and children
5. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad important?
1. The Battle of Stalingrad was important because it was the city that was most important to Stalin, Hitler’s biggest enemy. Hitler wanted to overtake it, almost as much as Stalin wanted to defend it. There was a lot of bloodshed at the battle. 
6. Explain the American “island-hopping” campaign.
1. On the captured Japanese islands, the United States moved closer and closer to Japan, when finally in 1944, the American ships were blockading Japan.
7. When and why was the United Nations established?
1. The United Nations was established so that the countries could be united in peace-making decisions and oversee to it that another party like the Nazis could never be created. The United Nations was established in April 1945
8. What was the Truman doctrine?
1. The Truman doctrine was created March 12, 1947 and it would guide the United States for decades in making decisions such as resisting Soviet expansion and withstanding communist threat.