WWII Flashcards

Question

Entry of the U.S. into the war

Answer 1

Turning point bc the United States’ production of arms was to meet not only its own needs but also France’s and Great Britain’s and their economic contribution was great; began to fight in N. Africa and moved their way up

Answer 2

Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population. Historically, eugenicists have attempted to alter human gene pools by excluding people and groups judged to be inferior or promoting those judged to be superior. In Mein Kampf, Hitler declared non-Aryan races such as Jews and Romani as inferior. He believed Germans should do everything possible, including genocide, to make sure their gene pool stayed pure.

Answer 3

Roosevelt took the lead in establishing a grand alliance among all countries fighting the Axis powers.supporters hailed him as the saviour of his nation during the Great Depression and the defender of democracy during World War II.

Answer 4

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered six days after the bombing of Nagasaki

Answer 5

a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party; Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed. Book burnings also occurred;

Answer 6

The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. Founded by Widrow Wilson, US did not join after; Ultimately failed to keep the peace;

Answer 7

refusal to take part in a war between other powers; US neutral for the most part of the war;

Answer 8

Invasion of Poland, attack on Poland by Nazi Germany that marked the start of World War II; blitzkrieg, Britain and France declared war on Germany(Versailles treaty), but did little to help;

Answer 9

France invaded the mine because Germany could not make up their reperations;German workers protested the occupation of the Ruhr with an immense sitdown strike; The railroads, mines, factories, and public services in the Ruhr and Rhineland ground to a halt. Weimer gov. forced to print money to comensate the workers, which led to even higher inflation;

Answer 10

After the Munich Agreement, the Soviet Union pursued a rapprochement with Nazi Germany; Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, an invasion of the Soviet Union; Battle of Stalingrad; Stalin met with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference and discussed a two-front war against Germany and the future of Europe after the war. invasion of Manchuria. greatest number of casualties in the war, about a third of all World War II casualties; emerged as superpower

Answer 11

Warfare where all of a country's available resources, military as well as civilian, are employed

Answer 12

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed; used by Germany in Blitzkrieg(London especially) and by Alllies/Axis in bombings in general;

Answer 13

Germany forced to fight on two fronts, France and Russia;

Answer 14

The hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews.

Answer 15

- seize these regions and incorporate them into the empire to make itself self-sufficient economically and thus become the dominant power in the Pacific Ocean - policy of founding and supporting puppet states in conquered regions. These conquered territories became the basis for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in 1940.

Answer 16

Invasion of France to liberate it from Nazi occupation (3 months) in 1944 @ beach of Normandy, casualties high;

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