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WWII Flashcards

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How did Hitler gain support?

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Hitler gained support in the Nazi Party by attacking the hated Treaty of Versailles

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Hilter blamed who for Germany’s problems

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Jews and foreign powers

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Hilter was appointed what?

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Appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933

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Hilter achieved total __

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dictatorship

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Hitler wanted to create a

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master race where Aryan people would be considered a pure race and superior to other people.

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Jews had expirenced

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Anti semitism or prejudice against Jews had been around for centuries

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Dr. Joseph Goebbels was what(Nazi Leader)

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the head of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry and controlled all communications.

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What did Dr. Joseph Goebbels encourage

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Encouraged book burning to eliminate other

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Heinrich Himmler led what(Nazi Leader)

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led the SS- the Nazis’ secret police

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Heinrich Himmler formed ___ squads known as the Einsatzgruppen

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Death squads known as the Einsatzgruppen
One of the architects of the holocaust

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What are death squads

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A death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings or forced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or revolutionary terror.

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Adolf Eichmann (Nazi Leader) helped organzise what

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the holocaust
Was in charge of transporting Jews from ghettos to concentration camps

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The Nuremberg Laws

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Passed in 1935
Said anyone with any Jewish blood would be considered a Jew
Further restrictions were placed, and persecution of the Jews increased

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Kristallnacht is what?

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Night of Broken Glass

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Night of Broken Glass

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took place in November 1938
Jewish stores, houses, and synagogues were systematically destroyed
Marks the beginning of widespread government-led violence against Jews

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Jews in Germany- Jewish Registry

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Jewish Registry was created where all people with Jewish ancestry had to register with the government.
Jews had to wear the star of David badge everywhere they went
Forced to live in isolated Ghettos

17
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The Final Solution

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Plan developed in 1942 to eliamaite all jews from Europe
Jewish people from across Europe were taken to concentration camps
In the camps, they were used for hard labor or killed

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Rescue and Resistance

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-Underground resistance movements were formed to assist Jews in escaping

-village in the south of France helped thousands of Jews escape to freedom

Jewish children sheltered by the Protestant population
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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April 19, 1943

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750 Jews were able to hold off German soldiers to avoid being taken to the concentration camps
Eventually lost the battle - 7,000 were killed, and 56,000 were deported
The “White Rose” resistance group distributed anti-Nazi pamphlets
Led by students Sophie and Hans School
Caught by German authorities and killed in 1942

20
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Liberation of the Camps

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Allied forces reached camps starting in the summer of 1944
Soviet forces liberate Auschwitz and camps in Poland and Eastern Germany
American forces liberate Buchenwald and camps in the west

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The Nuremberg Trials

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As the war ended, many top Nazis committed suicide
22 major Nazi criminals were tried for their crimes in Nuremberg
Most claimed to be “just following orders.”
12 were sentenced to death
Some escaped to South America, where they hid

22
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Douglas MacArthur

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Led Victory In Japan

23
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WW2 began because hilter invaded

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Poland

24
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What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Laws

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To Alienate Jews

25
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What was the immediate effect bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Surrender of Jpaan to the United States

26
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The United States enter WW2 as a direct result of what

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The attack on Peral Habor

27
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Blitzkrieg

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“Lighting War”, Typed of fast moving warface used by German forces against Poland 1939

28
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Anti Semitisim

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Hosiltiy or Prejudicie against Jewish Poeopel

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