End Of WW2 And The Holocaust

Question 1

Gestapo

Answer 1

German secret police

Question 2

J. Goebbels

Answer 2

Head of propaganda (cyanide suicide)

Question 3

R. Heydrich

Answer 3

Head of Gestapo: led the Wannsee conference- shot by Czech resistance, died a few days later

Question 4

Adolf Eichmann

Answer 4

Took over after Heydrich, head of Gestapo
Handled transport of Jews
Flees to Argentina and captured by Israeli secret police in 1961

Question 5

H. Himmler

Answer 5

Head of SS- responsible for “final solution” and committed suicide before his trial

Question 6

J. Mengele

Answer 6

“Dr. Death” Doctor in prison camps, did horrible experiments (twin experiments, cold etc.)
Found dead in pool in Brazil 1979

Question 7

SA

Answer 7

Storm Troopers: “brown shirts” members of special branch nazi party

Question 8

SS

Answer 8

Protection squad “blackshirts”
Hitlers personal bodyguard under Himmler

Question 9

Yiddish

Answer 9

Hebrew-German language spoken by Jewish

Question 10

Hermann Goering

Answer 10

Head of Luftwaffe, committed suicide before execution

Question 11

Kristallnacht

Answer 11

Night of the broken glass
Herschel Grynszpan shoots and kills a German diplomat in revenge for being deported, Germans retaliate by destroying 7,500 businesses and 180 synagogues led by Joseph Goebbels.

Question 12

July 20 plot

Answer 12

July 20, 1944 Operation Valkyrie
After failed attempt to assassinate Hitler on his likable colonol Stauffenberg was to travel to Hitlers “wolf lair” and place a suitcas with two bombs under the table in his briefing room. This would kill Hitler and arrest the high ranking officials around him.
Unfortunately only one bomb was armed in time and the suitcase was kicked under the tables leg, reducing the explosion. Some conspirators were executed day of.

Question 13

Wannsee Conference

Answer 13

Jan 20, 1942
15 nazi officers gather to discuss and coordinate a “final solution”… genocide
“Work will set you free” motto

Question 14

Election of 1944

Answer 14

FDR wins 4th term but dies in 1945, harry truman becomes president

Question 15

Yalta Conference

Answer 15

February 1945
Before WWII ends— US (FDR), UK (Churchill), Russia (Stalin)
Churchill wants strong Germany, FDR and Stalin want spheres of influence and weak Germany, and FDR mentions United Nations
Main discussion; how the Allie’s would handle the defeated /liberated countries of Europe
Decisions: Germany denazified, Nuremberg trials, Germany quartered and divide among GB, FR, RS, US, soviets join the u.n. With 50 other countries, soviets agree to invade Japan in exchange for land lost during Russo-Japanese war, free elections in Eastern Europe- Stalin unable to upkeep, countries turn communist

Question 16

V-E Day

Answer 16

Victory in Europe day- May 8, 1945

Question 17

Potsdam Conference

Answer 17

On V-E day, Truman, Churchill (dies and then Atlee), Stalin
Discussions: reinstating Yalta, Stalin agrees to fight vs. Japanese, atomic bomb mentioned casually to Stalin, war criminals brought to trial, unconditional surrender for Japan (allowed to keep their emperor) they deny and bomb dropped, council of foreign ministers was agreed upon (big 3 + China and France), Poland boundary redrawn

Question 18

Operation cornet

Answer 18

Plan to invade Japan (Tokyo)

Question 19

Manhattan project

Answer 19

Secret plan to develop atomic bomb in New Mexico

Question 20

Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 20

American physicist who tested trinity site, creates 3 bombs with the help of Albert Einstein called gadget, little boy, and fat man.

Question 21

USS Indianapolis

Answer 21

American ship carrying atomic bomb sunk on way home. So secret no coordinates, escorts, etc. 4 days in water, sharks ate about 600 people— only 300 survivors.

Question 22

Hiroshima

Answer 22

August 6th, 1945
Paul tibbits plane “Enola Gay” drops little boy bomb

Question 23

Nagasaki

Answer 23

August 9th, 1945
Charles Sweeney drops fat man bomb

Question 24

Japanese surrender

Answer 24

September 2nd, 1945
aboard the USS Missouri to general MacArthur

Question 25

V-J day

Answer 25

August 15th, 1945

Question 26

Korematsu VS. United States Executive Order 9066

Answer 26

FDR (order 9066) allowed Secretary of war to evacuate/relocate and and all persons in order to prevent espionage. Affected around 112,000 Japanese civilians, 2/3 of which were citizens. Korematsu, a Japanese citizens, denies relocation and goes to Supreme Court. 6-3 vote again korematsu. President bush acknowledges Americas racist decision and gave each survivor 20 thousand dollars.

Question 27

Holocaust

Answer 27

Systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime