WW2 Flashcards
What happened at the Nuremberg Trials?
Tried and convicted individual German officers in charge of the Holocaust
What does Blitzkrieg mean? Who used it during the beginning of the war?
Surprise and overwhelming force. Germany used it
What was appeasement? Who used it before the war and why?
The British and French decision to give into aggression to keep peace
What did FDR tell the country after Pearl Harbor?
“It was a day that will live in infamy”
What was Hitler’s “final solution”? Why was it unique?
The genocide of people he felt were inferior. It was unique because it was well planned and required lots of people to enact.
What happened at the Munich a Conference?
The British and French worked with Germany over Czechoslovakia
Nazism is the German from of what?
Fascism
Why did Japan invade Manchuria and other countries?
To obtain raw materials
What was one reason many Germans approved of Hitler’s ride to power?
The people were frustrated with the economic conditions caused by the Treaty of Versailles
What does Fascism stress?
Nationalism
Who was in charge of Japan after the War?
The prime minister who was chosen by the Diet
Who made up Japan’s new Constitution?
The United States
Where were the two atomic bombs dropped?
Hiroshima and Nagaskai
Who were the Axis powers? Who were the Allies?
Italy, Japan, and Germany. Britain, France, USSR, and the United States
What did the Emperor Hirohito of Japan have to admit to his people?
That he was not a God and he was human
