Road to WW2 Flashcards
What were the two main causes of world war II?
1) Mistreatment of Germany under the treaty of Versailles
2) The Great Depression leads to the rise of dictators in ev.
The Great Depression began with what event?
The crash of the stock market
Name four extreme form of government that arose in Europe before of after the great depression:
Communism
Fascism
Nazism
Militarism
What was the main factor the allowed these governments to come to power?
People were desperate, and unemployed
List 6 groups that the Nazis considered to be “Undesirable”, and needed to be cleansed from Germany:
JEWS
Russian
Gypsies
Jehovah Witness
Homosexuals
Handicapped
negros
What 2 promises did Adolf Hitler give to the German people if they elected him?
1) He promised to get German people out of the great depression
2) He promised get back for the treaty of versille
Name 3 beliefs these extreme governments shared in common:
1) Demanded fanatic loyalty to leaders/ country
2) Totalitarian/ police states where the police/ gov. control everything
3) Racism: superiority of their race
What was the League of nations response to the aggressive actions of Japan, Italy and Germany?
Nothing
Why did Great Britain and France “appease” or give in to Hitler’s demands at the munich pact ?
To avoid war
What event was used by Hitler as a “Dress Rehearsal” for WW2?
1936- Spanish civil war
Why did most German jews refused asylum (entry) into countries during 1930’s?
Great depression - No jobs
Who were the brainwashed German group, who were fanatically loyal to Adolf Hitler?
HJ
Whose country did Adolf Hitler consider a weak, “Mongrel race”?
Americans
What country other that Germany was the only that Hitler respected? Why did he respect this country?
Great Britain because of its Mighty Empire
Name the four major allied powers in WW2?
Great Britain, France, USSR and USA
Name three major axis powers in WW2?
Germany, Italy and Japan
The code name for the invasion of the soviet union:
Operation Barbarossa
Code name for D-Day, The battle of Normandy:
Operation Overlord
Hatred of the jews
Anti-Semitism
what were Jewish people forced to wear to identify themselves to other’s?
“Star of David”
Nazis political/ racial ideology was summarized in Adolf Hitler’s book:
Mein Kompf
“My struggle”
What was the Buffer zone between Germany and France that was occupied by Hitler in 1936?
Rhineland
What was the importance of the Battle of Britain?
~ Early turning point of the war
~ First time Hitler lost
~ People of Europe realized that Hitler is not unbeatable
Who were the first Black servicemen to serve as military pilots in WW2?
Tuskegee Airmen
What were the 3 major results of the Japanese attack on pearl harbor?
1) USA enters the war
2) Unites the people of the US/ Americans wanted revenge
3) Interment camps
What reason did the US government give for putting Jap-Americans into interment camps? What was the REAL REASON?
Reason they gave: National Security
Real: Fear & Prejudice
What 4 things did Adolf Hitler do in his “Final solution” to rid Europe of the jewish nation?
1) Immigration: make life so bad in Germany that they flee the country
2) Mobile death squads: Dug trenches and were machine gun to death
3) Ghettos: jews rounded up in cities, sealed behind Barbwire
4)Death camps: jews gassed in showers and cremated in ovens
16,000 Americans and Filipinos soldiers died on their way to POW camp
Bataan Death march
Why did the United states decide to use the atomic bomb of Japan rather than to invade the country?
Because it would save lives
Name and give a brief description of the three different types of German concentration camps used in WW2:
1) POW-camps held prisoners at war mostly in Germany
2) Work camps used slave labor to help the German war effort many worked to death
3) death camps: used to exterminate people
* all six were located in Poland
List the results of WW2:
1) approximately 70 million people died 40 million were civilians
2) Europe is in ruins 30 million refugees
3) Cold War, two competing superpowers (US and Soviet Union)
4) Great Britain lost its empire
5) Nuclear age
6) Creation of Israel (Jewish homeland)
