World War 2 Part 2 Flashcards

(36 cards)

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Aryans

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Germanic peoples (master race)

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Holocaust

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The systematic mass slaughter of Jews

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Ghettos

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Segregated Jewish areas in Warsaw, Poland

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Auschwitz

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Largest death camp

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Kristallnacht

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

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Final solution

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Hitlers plan to eliminate Jews

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SS

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Hitlers elite security force

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El Alamein

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Turing point for the Allie’s in North Africa

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Genocide

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The systematic murder of an entire people

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Rationing

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Distributed in limited amounts

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Casablanca

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Where Churchill and Roosevelt met to decide to attack Italy first

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Nisei

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Japanese Americans

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Dresden

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The Dresden firestorms symbolized TOTAL WAR

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V-E day

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Victory in Europe day-may 8th 1945

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Leyte gulf

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The battle of Leyte gulf risked the entire Japanese navel fleet

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Operation overlord

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The invasion of Normandy -big sea attack

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Battle of the bulge

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Last German offensive battle

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Kamikaze

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Japanese suicide pilots

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Okinawa

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Bloodiest battle in the pacific

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Manhattan project

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Created the atomic bomb

21
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Nuremberg trials

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

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Douglas MacAruther

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In charge of U.S occupation of Japan

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Demilitarization

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Disbanding a military force

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Dwight Eisenhower

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Supreme commander of the allied expeditionary

25
What 2 actions did hitler try with the Jews before he turned to genocide?
1. Emigration | 2. Holocaust
26
Explain how the battle of the bulge and battle of Leyte gulf are similar?
They were both risking Japan-their navel fleet Germany- had to surrender
27
Who were usually chosen to die in the death camps?
Mostly women, kids, sick, and old people because they were deemed useless
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What deprived German Jews of their rights to citizenship, jobs, and property?
The Nuremberg laws
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Why do you think that the battle of Stalingrad was a Turing point for both the Allie’s and axis powers?
Both sides threw everything that had at it
30
Why did the US lower the speed limit to 35 mph?
To conserve gas and rubber
31
How did the allies try to fool the Nazis into thinking that the Normandy invasion take place in Calais?
They created a fake army for nauseous to take as bait and it worked
32
What was the risk that the Japanese Navy took in the battle of Leyte gulf?
The entire Japanese naval fleet
33
How did president Truman justify that use of atomic weapons of on Japan
He said it would save millions of lives and stop the war
34
List to charges brought against the 22 Nazi liters
1. Waging a war of aggression | 2. Crimes against humanity
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Explain how Nuremberg represents both the beginning and the end of the holocaust?
The beginning because it restricted Jews in the end because the Nazis were charged at the Nuremberg trials
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Operation torch
Invasion of North Africa