World War 2 Part 2 Flashcards
Aryans
Germanic peoples (master race)
Holocaust
The systematic mass slaughter of Jews
Ghettos
Segregated Jewish areas in Warsaw, Poland
Auschwitz
Largest death camp
Kristallnacht
When Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, synagogues, across Germany and Austria NOVEMBER 9th 1938
Final solution
Hitlers plan to eliminate Jews
SS
Hitlers elite security force
El Alamein
Turing point for the Allie’s in North Africa
Genocide
The systematic murder of an entire people
Rationing
Distributed in limited amounts
Casablanca
Where Churchill and Roosevelt met to decide to attack Italy first
Nisei
Japanese Americans
Dresden
The Dresden firestorms symbolized TOTAL WAR
V-E day
Victory in Europe day-may 8th 1945
Leyte gulf
The battle of Leyte gulf risked the entire Japanese navel fleet
Operation overlord
The invasion of Normandy -big sea attack
Battle of the bulge
Last German offensive battle
Kamikaze
Japanese suicide pilots
Okinawa
Bloodiest battle in the pacific
Manhattan project
Created the atomic bomb
Nuremberg trials
How the nations of the world tried to deal with germanys guilt in the holocaust
Douglas MacAruther
In charge of U.S occupation of Japan
Demilitarization
Disbanding a military force
Dwight Eisenhower
Supreme commander of the allied expeditionary
What 2 actions did hitler try with the Jews before he turned to genocide?
- Emigration
2. Holocaust
Explain how the battle of the bulge and battle of Leyte gulf are similar?
They were both risking
Japan-their navel fleet
Germany- had to surrender
Who were usually chosen to die in the death camps?
Mostly women, kids, sick, and old people because they were deemed useless
What deprived German Jews of their rights to citizenship, jobs, and property?
The Nuremberg laws
Why do you think that the battle of Stalingrad was a Turing point for both the Allie’s and axis powers?
Both sides threw everything that had at it
Why did the US lower the speed limit to 35 mph?
To conserve gas and rubber
How did the allies try to fool the Nazis into thinking that the Normandy invasion take place in Calais?
They created a fake army for nauseous to take as bait and it worked
What was the risk that the Japanese Navy took in the battle of Leyte gulf?
The entire Japanese naval fleet
How did president Truman justify that use of atomic weapons of on Japan
He said it would save millions of lives and stop the war
List to charges brought against the 22 Nazi liters
- Waging a war of aggression
2. Crimes against humanity
Explain how Nuremberg represents both the beginning and the end of the holocaust?
The beginning because it restricted Jews in the end because the Nazis were charged at the Nuremberg trials
Operation torch
Invasion of North Africa
