Nature of warfare

Question 1

Blitzkrieg

Answer 1

‘lightning war’ - Rapid attacks by aircraft, tanks, armoured vehicles

Question 2

Holocaust - What is totalitarianism

Answer 2

The total control the government has over a country

Question 3

Holocaust - What did the Nuremberg laws?

Answer 3

Laws the stripped Jews from their German citizenship.

Question 4

Holocaust - what was the 1st step of the ‘Jewish question?’

Answer 4

1. Expulsion - Get them out of Germany

Question 5

Holocaust - what was the 2nd step of the ‘Jewish question?’

Answer 5

2. Containment - Put them all together in one place (namely ghettos)

Question 6

Holocaust - what was the 3rd step of the ‘Jewish question?’

Answer 6

3. “Final solution.” - November 9-10 1938 “night of the broken glass” Germans attacked Jewish homes and businesses with mobile killing squads of Nazi’s also death camps

Question 7

Use of atomic bombs - Hiroshima

Answer 7

August 6, 1945, The US dropped a bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, destroying the whole city, killing 80 000 people and instantly and injuring 70 000 people.

Question 8

Use of atomic bombs - Nagasaki

Answer 8

August 9 1945, The US dropped a second bomb on Japanese city of Nagasaki, more powerful then Hiroshima, forcing Japan to surrender from the war, ending WW2.