Studied by 68 peopleHirohito
Emperor of Japan
Adolf Hitler
Leader of Nazi Germany
Douglas MacArthur
U.S Army General, Commanded the Southwest Pacific
Benito Mussolini
Invented Fascism, Leader of Fascist Italy
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Creator of the Atomic Bomb
Erwin Rommel
German Field Marshall
FDR
32nd President of the U.S
Josef Stalin
WWII Russian Leader
Paul Tibbets
Flew the Atomic bomb into Japan
Hideki Tojo
Japanese Army General
Harry Truman
33rd President, ordered the nuking of Japan
Isoroku Yamamoto
Japanese Navy Admiral
Fascism
Dictators control all of the citizen’s lives
Winston Churchill
Said the quote “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” and was in the RAF and former president of UK twice
Charles de Gaulle
Former president of France
Dwight Eisenhower
34th President of U.S, general of the army in Europe.
Nazism
Beliefs associated with Nazi’s
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler’s Book
Appeasement
A conclusion between war enemies
Isolation
Avoiding political entanglements
Third Reich
Nazi Germany
Munich Conference
Agreement between Germany, UK
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Agreement with Soviet Union and Germany
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Nuked cities of Japan
Luftwaffe
German Air Force
Pearl Harbour
Place in Hawaii, bombed by Japanese planes.
Aryan
“ULTIMATE RACE”
Kristallnacht
Program against Jews, Night of the broken glass
Ghetto
Suburban part in a city
Final Solution
Mass genocide of Jewish people in Camps
Genocide
Nice word for mass killing
D-Day
Allies invading France in Normandy, Omaha beach
Kamikaze
Japanese pilots who stuff planes with bombs and fly into battle ships
Manhattan Project
Project to make the first nuke
Swastika
Symbol of Nazi Germany
Enola Gay
Plane that dropped the first nuke
Fuhrer
ruthless leader
Nuremberg Trials
Trials for Nazi Commanders
Why did the Allies try appeasement
To avoid war with Germany and the Allied Powers
Number these 1-5 from occurence
Hitler is allowed to take the Rhineland
Hitler is allowed to take all of Czechoslovakia
The anschluss is allowed to occur
Hitler is allowed to take Sudetenland
Hitler announces he will no longer follow treaty
1: Hitler announces he will no longer follow treaty
2: Hitler is allowed to take the Rhineland
3: The anschluss is allowed to occur
4:Hitler is allowed to take Sudetenland
5: Hitler is allowed to take all of Czechoslovakia
What countries were ruled by fascist dictators by the end of the 1930’s
Spain, Italy, Germany
The earliest incident leading up to WWII in asia was japan invading __________, A region of China
Manchuria
These two world leaders that signed a non-aggression pact one week before the invasion of Germany
Hitler and Stalin
Know the 3 following factors that kept countries from challenging Axis Empires
A global depression
Memories of tragedies in WWI
The belief in isolationism
What happened at the Munich Conference
Germany was permitted to take sudetenland
Did Hitler keep his promise of the Munich Conference?
No, he took all of Czechoslovakia
Three Major Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
What was the Maginot Line
It was a line of soldiers that France put around them to defend from Germany
Why did the Maginot Line fail?
It failed because it was not long enough and the German tanks went North of the line through the jungle and then invaded France
What was the German strategy used in WWII to overwhelm the enemy?
Blitzkrieg tactics
What were Blitzkrieg tactics
a method of offensive warfare designed to strike a swift, focused blow at an enemy using mobile forces, including armored tanks and air support
What battle is considered the major turning point in the war against Japan in the Pacific?
The battle of Midway
Around how many Jews were put to death as a result of Hitler’s Final Solution?
Around 6 million
What battle was HItler’s last Major offensive in Europe?
Battle of the Bulge
Was the Battle of the Bulge successful?
No it was not, it was an allied victory
Know the three blunders of Adolf Hitler.
Declaring war on the U.S.A
Invasion of Russia
Putting way too many resources into the genocide of Jews
Which country had the largest number of Jews killed in WWII?
Poland
At which location did Operation Overlord face the most resistance?
Normandy
What was the codename for the beach in normandy where the Allied faced the most resistance
Omaha Beach
Which two cities were nuked in Japan?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Which country in WWII had the most casualties.
Russia/Soviet Union
What organization was created after WWII to prevent another war from starting? (INCLUDED BOTH THE U.S AND SOVIET UNION
The United Nations
What battle cost the USSR over one million soldiers.
Battle of Stalingrad.
What was the first stage of the Holocaust.
Social Isolation. This was the beginning of the discrimination of Jews and was pretty much just petty things in society just because people were Jewish
What was the second stage of the Holocaust?
Forced Isolation. This is where things started to get serious and Jews started to get imprisoned and rights were stripped from them.
What was the third stage of the Holocaust.
The Final Solution. This stage was the mass genocide of every Jew in concentration camps. This is when the Germans were just killing to kill, and killed tons of Jewish people.
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