🤞 Flashcards
5 causes of WWII
Economic Instability increases throughout the world
WWI peace settlement fails
Dictators gain control of Europe and Japan
Appeasement fails
Germany invaded Poland
What is the date of Pearl Harbor?
December 7th, 1941
Hiroshima
August 6th 1945
Little Boy
Nagasaki
August 9th, 1945
Fat Man
When did he United Nations Form
1945
What three warning signs we missed at Pearl Harbor?
Periscope sticking out of water
Planes on Radar
Shot at one of minisubs
Big three at Yalta conference
Stallin
FDR
Churchill
2 responsibilities of United Nations
Peace keeping
Human rights protection
What are the two beaches we attacked at Normandy?
Utah and Omaha
What is the ship that is used as a memorial at Pearl Harbor
Arizona
How did Hitler Die?
Suicide
How many Jews were killed
6 million
When is D-Day
June 6th, 1944
Adolf Hitler
Ruler of Germany
Benito Mussolini
Ruler of Italy
Munich Conference
1938 British and French let Germany takeover Czechoslovakia
Neutrality Acts
Forbid transportation or sales of arms to warring nations
Appeasement
Policy of giving into aggressor demands to avoid war
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Selective Service Acts
Establish 1st peaceful draft in us history
Dwight Eisenhower
Commander of allied forces in the invasion of Normandy
Lend Lease
Permitted ban of us war materials
Harry Truman
Made decision to use atomic bombs
Holocaust
Extermination of 6 million Jews
Pearl Harbor
Brings us into war from japan. December 7th, 1941
Axis Powers
Germany, Japan, Italy
Yalta
Site of February 1945 meeting Churchill, Stallin, and FDR
Stallin
Soviet Union Dictator 1930
Hideki Tojo
Japan 1941 Prime Minister
Hiroshima
1st atomic bomb dropped
Battle of the bulge
Last German military offense in WWII
Nagasaki
City destroyed by atomic bomb
Auschwitz
Nazi Death Camp
Stalingrad
Key battle Germans lost in Soviet Union
What three Racial groups did he Nazis want to kill off?
Jews
Russian POW’s
Gypsies
The Germans hid their true plans from citizens and inhabitants of the ghettos by claiming Jews were being…
Resettled in the east
The total figure for the Jewish genocide including shooting and the camps, was between…
5.2 and 5.8 million
Why did he Nazis begin to dismantle the camps?
To cover up their crimes
What did Nazis have Jews send back home right before they died?
Postcards