World War 2 Flashcards
What was the Failure of collective security
The balance-of-power concept of World War I was widely condemned. Why? ;Its logic does not take into account democracy.;It allows for war.;Violations of self-determination by states are condoned.
The League of Nations was a precursor of:
A the United Nations.The balance-of-power concept of World War I was widely condemned. Why?
A Its logic does not take into account democracy.
B It allows for war.
C Violations of self-determination by states are condoned.
D none of the above (A,B, and C).
E all of the above (A,B, and C). E
The League of Nations was a precursor of:
A the United Nations.
B The European Union.
C The World Bank.
D the League of Democracies.
E all of the above. A
The idea of collective security involves two important concepts:A territoriality and sovereignty.
B territoriality and international law.
C sovereignty and international law.
D sovereignty and global governance.
E global governance and international law. C
The ‘war guilt clause’ in the Treaty of Versailles put the blame for causing World War I on what country?
A Russia
B Austria-Hungary
C Serbia
D Germany
E Great Britain D
The Manchurian failure refers to:
A the failed Korean attack on Manchuria.
B the failed Japanese attack on Manchuria.
C the failure of the collective security approach to counteract the Japanese attack on Manchuria.
D the failed Russian attack on Manchuria.
E none of the above. C
In which year did World War II start and when did it end?
A 1922-1944
B 1938-1945
C 1939-1945
D 1941-1945 C
The Blitzkrieg refers to Germany’s attack on:
A Holland and Denmark
B Holland and Poland
C Holland, Belgium and France
D Poland and Austria
E Poland and Russia C
Considered from a systemic point of view, Germany in the 1930s was:
A a revisionist state.
B a revolutionary state.
C a pariah state.
D a communist sate.
E none of the above. A
The Pacific War had:
A its origins in Europe.
B its origins in East Asia.
C its origins in America.
D all of the above.
E none of the above. B
With regard to World War I and World War II, some scholars have suggested that appeasement:
may have been effective before World War I but not World War II.
What was the Nazi empire in Europe?
Nazi Germany, also known as the Third Reich, is the common name for Germany during the period from 1933 to 1945, when its government was controlled by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP; Nazi Party). Under Hitler’s rule, Germany was transformed from a republic into a dictatorship using the process of Gleichschaltung (coordination). The country was a totalitarian state after August 1934. Nazi Germany ceased to exist after the Allied Forces defeated the Wehrmacht in May 1945, thus ending World War II in Europe.[2]
On 30 January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by the President of the Weimar Republic, Paul von Hindenburg. Hitler’s appointment began the process of systematic elimination of all political opposition and consolidation of power, resulting in Hitler becoming the sole leader of Germany. On 2 August 1934, upon the death of President Hindenburg, Hitler became the dictator of Germany with the merger of the powers and offices of the Chancellery with the Presidency of the Weimar Republic. This legislation was affirmed by a national referendum on 19 August 1934, and Hitler became the sole Führer (leader) of Germany.[3] The state idolized Hitler as its leader, centralizing all power in his hands.
What was the Turning Point?
Is it possible to pick one event—great or small—in this immense conflict and say, “This was the decisive moment”? That’s the question I recently posed to some of the war’s finest historians.
Of course, there is no right answer. To come to any decision about when the turning point might have been means making a judgment about what would have happened if things had been different, and counterfactual history is notoriously impossible to resolve. But that was the challenge of asking the question in the first place. History is all about argument, and the issue of when the turning point of the war was stimulated a lively debate about the relative importance of key moments in the conflict.
In my judgment the turning point of the war occurred on October 16, 1941. And toward the end of this article I explain why this date was so crucial, not just to the outcome of the war, but also to the whole course of the 20th century.
But let’s first consider what the distinguished historians I spoke to had to say, beginning with Adam Tooze, recently appointed professor of history at Yale. Tooze—whose book The Wages of Destruction, an economic history of the Third Reich, is a groundbreaking piece of scholarship—is adamant that the turning point occurred less than a year after the war began. “There’s no question,” he told me, “that the entire history of the war is determined in some sense and shaped by the German victory in France in May 1940.”
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What was the Diplomacy during the War
Arcadia (1941) — Washington Conference between President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime MInister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill
Argonaut (1945) — linked sequence of conferences
Cricket (1945) — pre-Yalta Conference at Malta between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
Magneto (1945) — Yalta Conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Premier of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill
Eureka (1943) — conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at Tehran
Octagon (1944) — conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Quebec City to discuss Morgenthau Plan
Quadrant (1943) — conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Quebec City
Riviera (1941) — Franklin D. Roosevelt/Winston Churchill conference at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland
Sextant 1 (1943) — conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Premier of China Chiang Kai-Shek at Cairo
Sextant 2 (1943) — conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and President of Turkey İsmet İnönü at Cairo
Symbol (1943) — conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and the leader of the Free French, Charles de Gaulle, at Casablanca
Terminal (1945) — conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam
Trident (1943) — third Washington conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill
Results of the World War 2?
After the end of the war, a conference was held in Potsdam, Germany, to set up peace treaties . The countries that fought with Hitler lost territory and had to pay reparations to the Allies . Germany and its capital Berlin were divided into four parts. The zones were to be controlled by Great Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union. The three western Allies and the Soviet Union disagreed on many things and as time went on Germany was divided into two separate countries : East Germany , which had a Communist government and West Germany, which was a democratic state . Berlin was also divided into East and West Berlin. Austria was also occupied by the four Allies from 1945 to 1955.German occupation zones after World War II
One by one, the Russians started to take over countries in eastern Europe and install Communist governments there. The division of Europe was the beginning of the Cold War, between the democratic nations of the west and the Communist countries of eastern Europe. The Iron Curtain marked the border between these two regions.
After the war many Nazi leaders were arrested and punished for what they had done in the war. The most famous war trials were held at Nuremberg, Germany. Those who were responsible for brutal crimes were sentenced to death.
Many problems arose after the war was over. One of them focused on the city of Berlin which was deep inside the Russian zone. In June 1948, the Soviet Union tried to drive the western powers out of Berlin by blocking all routes to the city. For a whole year the Allies flew in food, fuel and other things that the population needed to survive . Finally , the Russians gave up and the blockade ended. In 1961 the Russians built a wall around Berlin to stop their citizens from escaping to the west.
The biggest task was to rebuild Europe, which lay in ruins . In 1948 the United States set up the Marshall Plan to help Europe’s economy . 18 nations received 13 billion dollars worth of food machines and other goods .
During World War II , four of the Allied powers—the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China— agreed to create an organization that should work for peace . In April 1945 fifty countries signed a charter and gave birth to the United Nations.
