World War 2 Part 2

Question 1

Aryans

Answer 1

Germanic peoples (master race)

Question 2

Holocaust

Answer 2

The systematic mass slaughter of Jews

Question 3

Ghettos

Answer 3

Segregated Jewish areas in Warsaw, Poland

Question 4

Auschwitz

Answer 4

Largest death camp

Question 5

Kristallnacht

Answer 5

When Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, synagogues, across Germany and Austria NOVEMBER 9th 1938

Question 6

Final solution

Answer 6

Hitlers plan to eliminate Jews

Question 7

SS

Answer 7

Hitlers elite security force

Question 8

El Alamein

Answer 8

Turing point for the Allie’s in North Africa

Question 9

Genocide

Answer 9

The systematic murder of an entire people

Question 10

Rationing

Answer 10

Distributed in limited amounts

Question 11

Casablanca

Answer 11

Where Churchill and Roosevelt met to decide to attack Italy first

Question 12

Nisei

Answer 12

Japanese Americans

Question 13

Dresden

Answer 13

The Dresden firestorms symbolized TOTAL WAR

Question 14

V-E day

Answer 14

Victory in Europe day-may 8th 1945

Question 15

Leyte gulf

Answer 15

The battle of Leyte gulf risked the entire Japanese navel fleet

Question 16

Operation overlord

Answer 16

The invasion of Normandy -big sea attack

Question 17

Battle of the bulge

Answer 17

Last German offensive battle

Question 18

Kamikaze

Answer 18

Japanese suicide pilots

Question 19

Okinawa

Answer 19

Bloodiest battle in the pacific

Question 20

Manhattan project

Answer 20

Created the atomic bomb

Question 21

Nuremberg trials

Answer 21

How the nations of the world tried to deal with germanys guilt in the holocaust

Question 22

Douglas MacAruther

Answer 22

In charge of U.S occupation of Japan

Question 23

Demilitarization

Answer 23

Disbanding a military force

Question 24

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 24

Supreme commander of the allied expeditionary

Question 25

What 2 actions did hitler try with the Jews before he turned to genocide?

Answer 25

1. Emigration

2. Holocaust

Question 26

Explain how the battle of the bulge and battle of Leyte gulf are similar?

Answer 26

They were both risking
Japan-their navel fleet
Germany- had to surrender

Question 27

Who were usually chosen to die in the death camps?

Answer 27

Mostly women, kids, sick, and old people because they were deemed useless

Question 28

What deprived German Jews of their rights to citizenship, jobs, and property?

Answer 28

The Nuremberg laws

Question 29

Why do you think that the battle of Stalingrad was a Turing point for both the Allie’s and axis powers?

Answer 29

Both sides threw everything that had at it

Question 30

Why did the US lower the speed limit to 35 mph?

Answer 30

To conserve gas and rubber

Question 31

How did the allies try to fool the Nazis into thinking that the Normandy invasion take place in Calais?

Answer 31

They created a fake army for nauseous to take as bait and it worked

Question 32

What was the risk that the Japanese Navy took in the battle of Leyte gulf?

Answer 32

The entire Japanese naval fleet

Question 33

How did president Truman justify that use of atomic weapons of on Japan

Answer 33

He said it would save millions of lives and stop the war

Question 34

List to charges brought against the 22 Nazi liters

Answer 34

1. Waging a war of aggression

2. Crimes against humanity

Question 35

Explain how Nuremberg represents both the beginning and the end of the holocaust?

Answer 35

The beginning because it restricted Jews in the end because the Nazis were charged at the Nuremberg trials

Question 36

Operation torch

Answer 36

Invasion of North Africa