Brett Preston
Mr. Haskell
World History E-Core
Reviewing the Facts 1-8
1. At the Munich Conference in September of 1938, British and French leaders again chose appeasement. They caved into Hitler�s demands and persuaded the Czechs to give up their land. They wanted to do this because they did no want war but eventually it became inevitable.
2. One week after Germany made the Nazi-Soviet Pact they broke it by invading Poland. Because of this, Britain and France honored their commitment to Poland and declared war on Germany and WWII had begun. All of this happened in 1939.
3. When WWII started America declared its neutrality but then in December 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and suddenly the United States was thrown into the war.
4. Germany would stop at no means to causing mass genocide of the Jews. At first he made them live in ghettos and then eventually he sent them all to concentration camps where he mass murdered millions and tortured them all.
5. The Battle of Stalingrad was important because it was one of the costliest battles in the entire war. Hitler�s aim of this attack was to capture Stalin�s namesake city, and Stalin was determined to defend it. The Germans surrounded the city, and the Russians circled them. The battle was long and fierce, going to such extremes as fighting for two weeks over the possession of a single building. The German commander finally surrendered, after all these hardships, in the beginning of 1943. The wounded, captured, and killed of the Germans numbered 300,000.
6. The American �island-hopping� campaign�s goal was to recapture some of the islands occupied by the Japanese while evading others. Each captured island was like a stepping stone to the next stage, and by doing this, the American forces moved north gradually from the Solomon Islands toward Japan.
7. The United Nations was established in San Francisco in April of 1945. Delegates from 50 nations around the world met and developed a charter, with the goal in mind to give equal power to different nations, so that issues may be voted on and dealt with. Peacekeeping is not their only objective, however, as they also work to do things such as prevent disease, improve education, protect refugees, and help third world and developing nations develop economically.
8. The Truman Doctrine was established by President Truman on March 12, 1947. It made the fact clear the America would do what it could to resist Soviet expansion in the world. Truman also sent advisors, economic and military aide to Greece and Turkey to deal with the growing communist threat. The idea of containment, or limiting communism only to areas already under Soviet control, was also a part of the Doctrine. It was believed that, under these circumstances, communism would eventually destroy itself.