End Of WWII

Question 1

First meeting of the big 3

Answer 1

Tehran conference

Question 2

The big 3

Answer 2

Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

Question 3

Why did Germany have to fight a war on several fronts

Answer 3

Because of D-day the the battle of the bulge

Question 4

Why did WWII contuine for so long

Answer 4

Nazi Germany would not surrender

Question 5

Members of the sercuity council

Answer 5

United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France, and China

Question 6

Who are the undesirable

Answer 6

Jews
Slav’s
Romans
homosexuals
Disabled

Question 7

Where were nazi war criminals tried

Answer 7

Nuremburg

Question 8

Name given to a state attention after World War II

Answer 8

Cold war

Question 9

Hitler’s ultimate goal to murder all Jews

Answer 9

Final solution

Question 10

Soviet Union controlled zone of Germany

Answer 10

East germany

Question 11

Organization created in 1945 with an ultimate goal of keeping world Peace

Answer 11

United Nations

Question 12

Zone of Germany controlled by France Great Britain and the United States, democratic

Answer 12

West germany

Question 13

Most power Of this organization and had veto power

Answer 13

Security council

Question 14

Stalins 2 goals after World War II

Answer 14

Convert Eastern Europe To communism
use the countries as a buffer zone of friendly governments as a defense against Germany AKA puppet governments

Question 15

What was the Manhattan project

Answer 15

Overseen by Roosevelt and combined science government and military

Question 16

What caused a major refugee crisis at the end of the war

Answer 16

people coming back from more soldiers and prisoners of war

Jews coming back but their homes were taken

Destruction of property from bombs and overall war

Question 17

What were the main items discussed at the yalta conference

Answer 17

2nd meeting of the big 3
Discussed post war Europe specifically Germany
created the United Nations
agreed to hold child trials for nazi war criminal
Spheres of inflience for the soviets

Question 18

What were the main items discussed in the potsdam confence

Answer 18

3rd meeting between the big 3
- what to do with Germany (and division of Germany)
- negotiated end of war terms
- what to do with atomic bomb useage
- U.N is offically created
- what to do with poland

Question 19

Potsdam declaration

Answer 19

Said that Japan must surrender or they will get total Destruction

Question 20

Who were the big 3

Answer 20

Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill

Question 21

Genocide

Answer 21

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or ethnic group

Question 22

Pogroms

Answer 22

Discrematory acts or laws towards jews

Question 23

Hitler’s new order

Answer 23

Motivated by the need for living space

created and developed concentration camps

Overall idea if what hitler planed to do in hia terrority

Question 24

What was the goal of work camps

Answer 24

Total Annihilation through work

Question 25

Who did extermination camps kill 1st

Answer 25

Young elderly and sick

Question 26

What was Hitler's final solution

Answer 26

Hitler's overall goal to murder all Jews with extermination camps or through work

Question 27

Name 3 resistances to nazi rule

Answer 27

Warsaw ghetto uprising Rebellion and Auschwitz Denmark immigrated their Jewish population to Sweden

Question 28

Did the Allied powers know what conditions were like in nazi Germany

Answer 28

They didn't know about concentration camps or the extreme of the brutality

Question 29

Nuremburg trials

Answer 29

Prosecuting prominent members of the nazi party for crimes against humanity Some of the leading nazi officers committed suicide or escaped to other countries before the trial, and some are still being hunted down

Question 30

Where were the judges for the Nuremberg trials from

Answer 30

Britain US Soviet Union and France

Question 31

Absentia

Answer 31

Not present (they werent there for the trial)

Question 32

Establishing the United Nations

Answer 32

5 nations convened in San Francisco to draft a charter for the United Nations Each member gets one vote in the General Assembly the security council has more power over the general assembly Also include other humanitarian goals such as contain diseases and prove education and protect refugees Ultimate goal was to return peace

Question 33

What could the security council in the United Nations do

Answer 33

They could veto the General Assembly they could apply economic sanctions They could deploy a piece keeping military force

Question 34

Who wanted the German rocket scientists captured

Answer 34

The US wanted them track down and brought to the US

Question 35

What were the 2 world powers in the beginning of the cold war

Answer 35

United States and the Soviet Union

Question 36

Why were there feelings of distrust in Eastern Europe and what did it cause

Answer 36

Disagreements over government types Reparations in Germany Caused a divide (u.s vs soviet union)

Question 37

What conference did the cold war begin

Answer 37

Yalta

Question 38

Why did Stalin want a buffer of friendly governments

Answer 38

To serve as a blocker Against Germany and to have puppet governments around him

Question 39

What did Roosevelt want after the war

Answer 39

Self determination for countries and free elections

Question 40

The Tehran conference

Answer 40

was the first meeting between the Big 3, the main point was that Stalin wanted Roosevelt to open a second front. and they agreed on when D-Day would occur