World War 2 (Europe and Pacific))

Question 1

Causes of War events

Answer 1

1929 - Wall Street Crash
1931 - Invasion of Manchuria
1933 - Hitler becomes Chancellor
1935 - Abyssinia, conscription
1936 - Remilitarization of the Rhineland
1936-9-SCW
1938 - Anschluss, Munich
1939 - Albania, Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression, Poland

Question 2

Causes of War significance/stats/quotes

Answer 2

• “The cause of war was therefore as much the blunders of others as the weakness of the dictators themselves.”-Taylor
• “This is peace for our time”, “run through all their complaints with a pencil”-Chamberlin
• Nazis have 3.5m, Allies have 3.3m
• “a clever plan of selling off your allies in order to buy off your enemies.” - Churchill

Question 3

Practices of war events

Answer 3

1939 - Poland
1940 - apr- Denmark and Norway
- may - Netherlands, Belgium and France
- July - Battle of Britain begins
1941 - apr - Greece, Yugoslavia, Romania
- june - Barbarossa
- dec - Pearl Harbour
1942-43 - Stalingrad, El Alamein, Midway
1943 - Mussolini dies
1944 - D-Day
1945 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yalta and Potsdam, VE May 8

Question 4

Practices of War significance/stats/quotes

Answer 4

• Stalingrad “showed for the first time that Hitler’s Wehrmacht was fallible.” - Davies
• El Alamein - 25k Axis casualties, 13k allied
• Midway - USA planes sent “America sent 14 as well as 9 light carriers and 66 escort carriers.” - Keegan
• 35141 torpedo planes shot down, Japan had 3x more carriers
• Hiroshima: 140k, Nagasaki: 74k
• “You can offer them no path to victory but to death.”

Question 5

Causes of War in the Pacific events

Answer 5

1931 - Sept - Jp invades Manchuria
- Dec - Lytton commission arrives
1933 - Jp leaves the LoN
1936 - Anti-Comintern
1937 - Quarantine Speech
1940 - USA trade limits
1941 - apr - Jp-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
- july- USA freezes Jp assets

Question 6

Causes of war in the pacific significance/stats/quotes

Answer 6

• Economic issues: exports down, silk down 1/3 of 1923 levels, unemployment at 3m
• “[Manhuria is] our only hope of survival”
• Pyle views the invasion of Manchuria as a turning point in the pacific
• 50% of Factories closed

Question 7

Practice of War in the Pacific

Answer 7

1940- Tripartite Pact
1941 - pearl harbour
1941- Jp-Soviet Non-Aggression
1945 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 8

Practices of war in the Pacific significance/stats/quotes

Answer 8

“In our discussions, some progress has been made… [for] the peaceful settlement covering the entire Pacific area.”- Hull Note
“No persuasive evidence has ever surfaced to suggest that … Roosevelt knew in advance”

Question 9

Effects of War events

Answer 9

1945 - Feb-Yalta, May-VE, July-Potsdam, Aug-H+N, Oct-UN forms
1946 - “Iron Curtain” speech
1947- Truman Doctrine
1948-9 - Berlin Blockade
1949 - PR of Germany estand China
1950 - Korea

Question 10

Effects of War significance/stats/quotes

Answer 10

• Yalta divided Austria, Germany. Berlin divided into 4 zones
• Potsdam aims for Jp surrender
• 50% of casualties were civlian