WWII Flashcards
Treaty of Versailles
- Treaty was signed in 1919
- Made Germany take full blame for war, give up their land and colonies, limit military numbers, and pay for the damage caused
League of Nations
Purpose was to solve to avoid another war in Europe
Dictators
- The rise of Hitler and his Nazi ideology
- Mussolini fascist rule to restoring Italy
- Tojo who believed that Japan was the ruler of east asia, and wanted to make it an empire
D-day
The battle of Normandy beginning the liberation of Western Europe
- Goal to ground inland, and capture key German territories and beachheads where allied forces could start recapturing the Western Europe.
-Canada was the most successful in progressing the farthest inland from Juno Beach.
The Rise of Hitler
- Anti Semitism: Hatred, prejudice, discrimination against Jews for their religion and heritage
- Genocide: Destruction of a ethnic, religious group
- Jews: Descendants of Israel
- Gentiles: Non-jewish person
Holocaust
Stage 1: Stripping Rights
- Limited Employment for Jews
- Banned from schools and unis
- Forced to wear yellow band on arm
Stage 2: Segregation
- Jews were forced to live in certain areas called ghettos
- Mobile killing machines, used gas-vans to kill jews more efficiently
Stage 3: Concentration Camps
- Gas-vans lead to development of Gas chambers that kill on mass of jews
- Those considered weak were killed immediately
Stage 4: Extermination
- Inmates began to die the bodies were held in large chambers.
Pearl harbour
Japan’s unexpected attack on US naval base on Pearl Harbour
Ortona
fierce hand-to-hand fighting between Canadian soldiers and some of the German army’s best combat troops
The end of WWII
- Hitler’s Death
- Germany surrendered
- Japan did not surrender
- Manhattan project: Creating atomic bomb on Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki
- first atomic bomb on Hiroshima “Called Little boy”
- 3 days later another bomb dropped on Nagasaki “Fat man” - Japan surrendered
Causes of WWII
-Treaty of Versaille
- Great Depression
- league of nations
The state of Germany prior to WWII
“Weimar Republic”
Reichstag
Reichstag was heavily damaged during the second world war, a parliament of Nazi Germany
Fascism
The idea to kill, make people leave their homes, and do other bad acts
Totalitarian Leadership
Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini…
