Ww2 Flashcards
Battle of Berlin
One of the final battles of World War III, Soviets won and took over Berlin
Operation downfall/overloard
Italy was defeated in Africa
Yalta
Place in Russia, held conference of three remaining powers in Yalta Churchill: British, Stalin: Russia, Roosevelt: US
over Poland
FDR’s death
When the president dies, Truman becomes president of the US and is now in charge of the Manhattan project
Potsdam conference
-Japan territory is only its main for islands with unconditional surrender. US will stop bombings.
-America: Truman, Atlee: British , Stalin: Russia
-USA reveals atomic bomb
-officially split Germany into four parts
-denazified and democratized
-Berlin is also specifically split into four zones

Mussolini
Leader of Italy, overthrown
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The two sites of the only atomic bombs ever unleashed in war history, two cities in Japan, nuked by the US, led by Truman and the Manhattan Project
Yalta conference
held conference of three remaining powers in Yalta Churchill: British, Stalin: Russia, Roosevelt: US
-Stalin says that he will declare war against Japan after Germany is defeated
-allies agreed that the UN will meet for the first time in April of 1945
-The allies agree to disarm, de militarize, de-Nazify, and divide Germany
-Germany split into four zones, Berlin split into four zones
-Disagreed
Atlantic charter
A joint declaration from USA, president, FDR and British Prime Minister Churchill against axis, aggression and postwar vision of FDR, (no territorial gain in the war, respecting the principles of free trade, among nations, and the right for people to choose their governments)
The creation of the United Nations
From Ulta creation of the security council:
-One house, security council
-, Russia, US, China, France are permanent nations in the security council
-other countries cycle in
-If all four nations agree on something and one nation vetoes, then the thing is vetoed
Potsdam declaration
A nasty letter from the US to Japan calling for the surrender of Japan, doesn’t directly mention nukes Japan finds funny
Nazi rat lines
Escape routes that Nazis used to flee Europe after World War III to south America, chase down by Israel Mossad
How World War II links to the Cold War
USA and Russia become the main supreme power and fight for political ideas capitalism versus communism
What was the problem with the experiments performed during World War II
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