world war 2 and holocaust

Question 1

hitler’s foreign policy goals

Answer 1

overturn TOV, reclaim land, build army up, ethnic purity

Question 2

lebenstraum

Answer 2

living space to colonise

Question 3

rearmement

Answer 3

rebuilding an army preparing for war

Question 4

anschluss

Answer 4

union with austria

Question 5

appeasement to germany

Answer 5

britain and france wanted to avoid war

Question 6

declaration of war

Answer 6

3 sep 1939 germany invaded poland- france and uk signed treaty to poland

Question 7

blitzkreig

Answer 7

lightning fast war with new technology and war machines

Question 8

sudetan land

Answer 8

part of czechslovakia domainated by germans

Question 9

resistance of uk

Answer 9

second biggest army, allies and connections

Question 9

poland invasion

Answer 9

1 sep 1939

Question 9

surrender of france

Answer 9

1940 government fled paris after attack and resigned government

Question 10

axis alliance

Answer 10

nazi germany, fachist italy, imperial japan

Question 11

allied powers

Answer 11

free france, britain, USSR, USA

Question 12

why nazi germany was defeated

Answer 12

winter in december made it difficult and the army slowly was weared down

Question 12

unable to conquer USSR

Answer 12

blitzkreig failed and russian army began to fight back 1943, push germans back

Question 13

allied bombing campaign

Answer 13

usa andnuk build armies to begin bombing factories and military

Question 14

battle of stalingrad

Answer 14

1943 russian victory bewteen german army

Question 15

D-day

Answer 15

usa and uk invade europe 1944 and under attack from USSR

Question 16

genocide

Answer 16

a mass killing of a population

Question 17

holocaust

Answer 17

mass killing of jewish community

Question 18

SS einsatzgruppen

Answer 18

mass murderers responsible for kidnapping jews

Question 19

wansee conference

Answer 19

1942- Heydrich established a ‘final solution’ to the jewish community

Question 20

extermination camp

Answer 20

camps used to gas people to death with cyanide 6 million jews killed

Question 21

militarism in japan

Answer 21

Meiji, Emperor launched a program to improve military and enrich counry

Question 22

japanese invasion of china

Answer 22

1937 to seize control and gain land/resources

Question 23

japan and USA war

Answer 23

1941, Japan launched attacks on uk and us military, attacked pearl harbour

Question 24

total war

Answer 24

war which is unrestricted with weapons, territory

Question 25

John Curtin

Answer 25

priminister until 1945 unpopular and weakened australia

Question 26

Battle of Kokoda

Answer 26

1942 japanese invaded PNG and australia fought

Question 26

mobilising Australia for war

Answer 26

conscripting people into the army

Question 27

strategy to fight japan

Answer 27

set ambushes and used jungle terrain

Question 28

defeat of japan

Answer 28

1945

Question 29

atomic bombing

Answer 29

nuclear bombs in hiroshima and nagasaki

Question 30

end of ww2

Answer 30

1945 after japan surrendered

Question 31

embargo

Answer 31

ban on all transports of food and recources

Question 32

rationing

Answer 32

rationed food for goods