Ww2 Flashcards
When did ww2 start and end?
1939-1945
Who were the big 3?
George Clemenceau 🇫🇷
David Lloyd George 🇬🇧
Woodrow Wilson 🇺🇸
What year was the treaty of Versailles signed?
1919
What does BRAT stand for?
B- blame
R- reparations
A- army
T- territory
Give two Nazi party promises
- To destroy the treaty of Versailles
- To unite all German speaking people and make Germany great again
- To reduce unemployment
- To have one, strong leader unlike the weak Weimar government they promised to return traditional German and family values that appealed to a wide range of people
What law did Hitler pass in march 1933?
The enabling act- it allowed him to make laws without consulting the Reichstag for four years
Give a key event that happened in 1933
- Hitler removed trade unions and political opposition.
- the reichstag building was burnt down.
- Hitler became chancellor
What happened in 1929 meaning people turned to extremist parties such as the nazis?
The Wall Street crash
Name one Nazi strength
The SA
Hitler’s public speaking ability
How did the Nazis control youth? Give two reasons
- Curriculum in schools was to teach what the Nazis wanted young people to think
- In history pupils were taught about the unfair treaty of Versailles
- In biology pupils were instructed on the Nazi radical ideas of the ‘aryan race’
- In 1936 a law was passed that made attendance to the Hitler youth or league of German maidens compulsory
- By 1938 80% of young people were members of Hitler youth or league of German maidens.
Give two ways the Nazi party controlled Germany by fear
- The gestapo was the state secret police. They could tap telephones, open mail and collect information from a huge network of informers. Informers reported on local people who they believed were anti Nazi.
- By the late 1930’s concentration camps were run by a section of the ss called Death’s head unit, as forced labour camps
- The first concentration camp was called Dachau and opened in 1933
- The ss stands for ‘schutz staffel’, which means protection squad. The black uniformed ss was originally Hitler’s personal bodyguard. Himmler built it up and by 1939 it had 240,000 members.
What was Nazi propaganda and who was in charge of it?
Joseph Goebbels who was in charge of propaganda staged impressive rallies, meetings and processions where Nazi messages could be broadcasted to thousands of Germans. The propaganda ministry controlled radio stations and transmitters. Cheap radio sets were made so that the Nazi message could be transmitted into German homes.
What is the Hitler myth?
Ian Kershaw describes the development of Hitler’s image as the ‘Hitler Myth’ he was portrayed as the voice and defender of the German people.
Give 3 facts about the persecution of the Jews.
- From April 1933, Jews were banned from government jobs and Jewish civil servants sacked
- May, 1935 Jews were banned from joining the army
- From 1934 local councils banned Jews from swimming pools and local parks
- From 1933 the Nazi party encouraged the boycott of Jewish shops and local parks
- 1935 Nuremberg laws said only those with pure Germans blood could be citizens and forbid Jews from marrying German citizens
- Kristallnacht (night of the broken glass) 1938 where violence broke out over 2 days. Gangs smashed and burned Jewish property across Germany. About 100 Jews were killed
Give two arguments FOR dropping the atomic bomb
- Revenge for pearl harbour, December 7th, 1941
- Worried that Japan wouldn’t surrender, invading Japan would cost a lot more Japanese and American lives than the bomb did
- There was intelligence to suggest that prince Konoye was going to try and bring Japan out of the war anyway
- The Japanese treated American prisoners of war terribly and some Americans thought they deserved to be bombed
