WWII Terms

Question 1

Nanking Massacre

Question 2

Chang vs. Yamamoto (Nanking Massacre)

Question 3

“Command Irresponsibility”

Question 4

Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

Answer 4

Mussolini (Italy) invades Abyssinia; League of Nations does nothing to help

Question 5

Rhineland

Answer 5

Occupied by Nazi Germany without
any resistance → Hitler learns he can do anything without Britain+France stopping him

Question 6

Alsace-Lorraine

Answer 6

Colony that Germany had to give up in Treaty of Versailles to France; Occupied again in WWII; Returned back to France after

Question 7

Anschluss

Answer 7

Reason that Austria + Germany united; Annexation of Austria into Nazi, Germany; German army marched in without any resistance

Question 8

Sudetenland

Answer 8

Part of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germans; Neville Chamberlain (Britain) allowed if Hitler promised to stop here → He didn’t

Question 9

League of Nations

Question 10

Appeasement

Answer 10

Policy of allowing Hitler’s aggression to avoid war

Question 11

Danzig

Answer 11

City Hitler demanded, leading to Germany’s invasion of Poland.

Question 12

Volksdeutsche

Answer 12

Ethnic / cultural germans living outside Germany; Excuse for Hitler to conquer Europe; To bring ethnic Germans into the Reich

Question 13

Maginot Line

Question 14

Phony War

Question 15

Dunkirk

Question 16

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

Question 17

Anti-Comintern Pact

Answer 17

Agreement between Germany + Japan + Italy against communism; Germany + Japan vs Russia

Question 18

Pact of Steel

Answer 18

Military / political alliance between Nazi Germany + Fascist Italy; Mutual support in case of war

Question 19

Luftwaffe

Question 20

Operation Sea Lion

Question 21

Winston Churchill (WWII)

Question 22

Battle of Britain (WWII)

Question 23

Royal Air Force (RAF) during WWII

Question 24

The Blitz

Question 25

Radar

Question 26

Stalingrad

Question 27

Scorched Earth Tactics

Question 28

Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)

Question 29

Battle of Midway

Question 30

Battle of El Alamein

Question 31

Midway Miracle

Question 32

D-Day (June 6, 1044)

Question 33

Operation Overlord

Question 34

Battle of Normandy

Question 35

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 36

Bernard Montgomery

Question 37

Pearl Harbor (End)

Question 38

Omaha Beach

Question 39

Tehran Conference

Question 40

Yalta Conference

Question 41

Potsdam Conference

Question 42

Battle of the Bulge

Question 43

Harry Truman (End)

Question 44

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima

Question 45

Atomic Bombings of Nagasaki

Question 46

Dehumanization

Question 47

Utilitarianism

Question 48

Area / Carpet Bombing

Question 49

Bombing of Dresden

Question 50

Bombing of Hamburg

Question 51

Bombing of Tokyo

Question 52

London Blitz

Question 53

Incendiary bombing

Question 54

Napalm

Question 55

“Just War” Theory

Question 56

Morale Bombing

Question 57

Proportionality of Means

Question 58

Norden Bomb Sight

Question 59

Heinrich Himmler

Answer 59

Leader of the SS (Schutzstaffel); One of Hitler’s top Nazi officials; Oversaw the Gestapo (secret police); Architect of the Holocaust - organized concentration camps and mass killings; Believed in racial purity + Aryan supremacy

Question 60

Joseph Goebbels

Answer 60

Hitler's propaganda minister; Manipulates the public

Question 61

Functionalist Argument

Answer 61

Hitler represented anti-semitism in German society → No clear plan from beginning → Vague leadership let new Nazis do the violence

Question 62

Intentionalist argument

Answer 62

All Hitler’s fault as the “mastermind”; Blames only a few high leaders

Question 63

Wannsee Conference

Answer 63

Meeting of high-ranking Nazis; Decide the final solution: Kill entire Jewish population; Firing squads + gas vans under pretense of relocation; Too much resources used → death camps (efficient killing)

Question 64

Comfort Women

Answer 64

Young women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese (mostly Korean)