Ww2 Flashcards
Final Solution
Nazi Genecide
Wannsee Conference
Met up to discus plan for final solution - led by J. Heydrich
Gestapo
German Secret Police
J. Goebbels
Head of Propoganda - committed suicide
R. Heydrich
Head of Gestapo - led Wannsee Conference - Shot By Czech Resistance
H. Himmler
Head of SS - Responsible For Final Solution - committed suicide before brought to trial
J. Mengele
“Dr. Death” Dr. In Prison Camps - horrible experiments - found dead in pool in Brazil
What were the 3 types of experiments and examples of them.
- Build Military - High Altitude Experiments
- Medical/Medicines - Bone Grafting
- Prove Nazi Superior Race - Sewed 2 Twins Together & Also to show if body can be unnaturally changed
The SA
Storm Troopers - “Brown Shirts” Members of a Special Branch in the Nazi Party
SS
Protection Squad - Hitler’s Personal Body Guards Under Himmler
Yiddish
Language of German & Hebrew
Herman Goreing
Head of Luftwaffe - Took Poison Before Executed
Adolf Eichmann
Took over after Heydrich - Head of Gestapo - Handled Transportation of Jews - Flees to Argentina (Captured by Israli Secret Police, Executed in 1961
Yalta Conferencence
Feb 1945 - Big 3 (USSR, Britain, USA) - FDR, Churchill, Stalin - In Ukraine, Soviets want spheres of influence
Potsdam Conference
July 1945 - Stalin, Churchill (Clement Attlee), Truman - Met to plan post war peace
Manhattan Project
Atomic Bomb - Gadget (test in NM), Little Boy (Hiroshima - Aug 6 ‘45), Fat Man (Nagasaka - Aug 9 ‘45)
Main Builders/Scientists in Atomic Bomb
Robert Oppenheimer - Main Scientist
General Grove - Military Engineer Officer
What Was Going On With Berlin Germany?
Berlin, Germany was split between the 4 Allies - USSR, France, Britain, USA
Japan Surrenders —date?
Sept 2, 1945
VJ Day
Victory In Japan - Aug 15, 1945
VE Day
Victory in Europe - May 8, 1945
Tokyo Trials -
Emperor Hirohito lived but Tojo sentenced to death
Pilot That Dropped Atomic Bomb
Paul Tibbets
Ship That Carried Atomic Bomb
USS Indianapolis
