WW2 and the Holocaust Flashcards
What are some points on how Churchill should be remembered?
stubborn, cared about soldiers, racist, patriotic, eccentric, ill-tempered, advocated for a Jewish state, wanted gas attacks to be used against Afgans
How many were killed in WW2?
around 70m - 85% suffered from victors
How many countries were involved?
61 countries
how many people were involved in WW2
1.7 billion (3/4 world population then)
Name some events of WW2
Invasion of Poland, Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Barbarossa, Pearl Harbour, Midway, EL Alamein, Stalingrad, Kursk, Invasion of Italy, D-Day, Berlin March, Atomic
What is the etymology of the word Holocaust?
holos- completely
kaustos- burnt sacrificial offering
who lead the manhattan project and when was the first bomb tested?
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the first bomb was tested in July 1945
When did Germany surrender in WW2?
8th may 1945
How many people were killed in a single weekend in Tokyo due to fire bombings?
100,000 casualties
When were the two atomic bomb droppings in Japan?
Monday, 6th August 1945 - Hiroshima,
Thursday 9th August 1945
When did the holocaust officially happen?
1941-45
What happened on the 15th of September 1935?
The Nuremburg laws - anti-Semitic laws.
When did the Kristallnacht Pogrom happen?
9-10 November 1938
What does genocide mean?
mass killing of people - the term was only coined after the holocaust
Who were the Einsatzgruppen?
A secret police force that carried out the Holocaust by bullets
When and where was ‘the final solution’ agreed upon?
The Wannsee conference, January 1942
What was a Ghetto?
Sectioned parts of a city that the Nazis forced Jews to live in
Who made the ‘give me your children’ speech?
Chaim Rumbowski in the Łódź ghetto
What was everyone in Ghettos?
They were ‘dirt poor’
When were most people sent to Concentration camps from Ghettos?
1942
When were all Ghettos liquidated?
1943
What was the largest Ghetto and when was it established?
Warsaw, October 1940
What were some forms of resistance in the Holocaust?
Some people:
Hans Litten, Clemens Von Galen, Armin T Wegner, Sophie Scholl and Freya Von Mothke
There was a flask in Auswitz and a theatre in Łódź Ghetto
Who was Oskar Shindler?
A factory owner who saved 1,200 people. At first he just wanted free Jewish labour, but by the end he was fighting a moral war.
