WW2 Flashcards
(45 cards)
Who was Joseph Goebbels?
leader of propoganda
Who was Heimlich Himmler?
highest official tried at numemberg
What did the Treaty of Versailles try to insure?
collective security and peace
What two nations were not part of the league of nations?
US and Russia
What occured at the Washington Naval Conference?
a policy on the ratio of battleships per country
What did the Kellogg Braind Pact do?
prohibit war
How did the War start in the Pacific?
Japan invaded Manchuria
Did China join the League of Nations?
yes
What two nations pulled out in response in the League of Nations?
Germany and Japan
What did the 1933 London Economic Conference do?
relieve the great depression
What was the purpose of the Stresa front?
use force to maintain peace in Europe.
Who allies with Germany in the Spanish Civil War?
Italy
What 4 things did Francisco Franco want?
facism, no socialism, no communism, power over the church
How did the Spanish Civil War become a dress rehersal?
Italy tested their ground troops, and Germany tested the Luftwaffe
What happens to the Rhineland in 1936?
Germany occupies it and remilitarizes it
Who was not invited to the Munich Conference and what happened?
Czechoslovakia and Russia, but Hitler promises no more territorial demands.
What did the Nonaggression Pact with Russia end up doing?
splitting Poland
How many weeks did France keep up the fight until they were defeated?
6 weeks
What is the formation of the Grand Alliance?
when Russia joins the allies
Hitler’s primary motivation for the invasion of the Soviet Union was?
to destroy Bolshevism and acquire lebensraum for German colonization.
A social historian would be most likely interested in researching which of the following topics related to World War II?:
women’s participation in the labor force during the war
The important decision made by leading German officials at the Wannsee Conference was?:
to begin implementation of the “Final Solution” to the Jewish Question.
The chief argument between Truman and Stalin at Potsdam in July, 1945, was over?:
free elections in eastern Europe.
Nazi occupation in Western Europe differed from that in the east in that?:
Nazi occupation was more extremely brutal in the east, because of Nazi racial ideology.