🤞 Flashcards

1
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5 causes of WWII

A

Economic Instability increases throughout the world

WWI peace settlement fails

Dictators gain control of Europe and Japan

Appeasement fails

Germany invaded Poland

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2
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What is the date of Pearl Harbor?

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December 7th, 1941

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3
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Hiroshima

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August 6th 1945

Little Boy

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4
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Nagasaki

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August 9th, 1945

Fat Man

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5
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When did he United Nations Form

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1945

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6
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What three warning signs we missed at Pearl Harbor?

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Periscope sticking out of water

Planes on Radar

Shot at one of minisubs

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7
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Big three at Yalta conference

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Stallin

FDR

Churchill

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8
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2 responsibilities of United Nations

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Peace keeping

Human rights protection

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9
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What are the two beaches we attacked at Normandy?

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Utah and Omaha

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10
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What is the ship that is used as a memorial at Pearl Harbor

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Arizona

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11
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How did Hitler Die?

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Suicide

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12
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How many Jews were killed

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6 million

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13
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When is D-Day

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June 6th, 1944

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14
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Adolf Hitler

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Ruler of Germany

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15
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Benito Mussolini

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Ruler of Italy

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16
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Munich Conference

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1938 British and French let Germany takeover Czechoslovakia

17
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Neutrality Acts

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Forbid transportation or sales of arms to warring nations

18
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Appeasement

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Policy of giving into aggressor demands to avoid war

19
Q

Winston Churchill

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Prime Minister of Great Britain

20
Q

Selective Service Acts

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Establish 1st peaceful draft in us history

21
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Dwight Eisenhower

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Commander of allied forces in the invasion of Normandy

22
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Lend Lease

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Permitted ban of us war materials

23
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Harry Truman

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Made decision to use atomic bombs

24
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Holocaust

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Extermination of 6 million Jews

25
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Pearl Harbor

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Brings us into war from japan. December 7th, 1941

26
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Axis Powers

A

Germany, Japan, Italy

27
Q

Yalta

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Site of February 1945 meeting Churchill, Stallin, and FDR

28
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Stallin

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Soviet Union Dictator 1930

29
Q

Hideki Tojo

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Japan 1941 Prime Minister

30
Q

Hiroshima

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1st atomic bomb dropped

31
Q

Battle of the bulge

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Last German military offense in WWII

32
Q

Nagasaki

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City destroyed by atomic bomb

33
Q

Auschwitz

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Nazi Death Camp

34
Q

Stalingrad

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Key battle Germans lost in Soviet Union

35
Q

What three Racial groups did he Nazis want to kill off?

A

Jews

Russian POW’s

Gypsies

36
Q

The Germans hid their true plans from citizens and inhabitants of the ghettos by claiming Jews were being…

A

Resettled in the east

37
Q

The total figure for the Jewish genocide including shooting and the camps, was between…

A

5.2 and 5.8 million

38
Q

Why did he Nazis begin to dismantle the camps?

A

To cover up their crimes

39
Q

What did Nazis have Jews send back home right before they died?

A

Postcards