WWII Flashcards

1
Q

What started WWII

A

Germany invading Poland

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2
Q

Who was the leader of Germany

A

Adolf Hitler

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3
Q

Who was the leader of Italy

A

Benito Mussolini

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4
Q

Who was the leader of Britain

A

Winston Churchill

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5
Q

Who was the leader of America

A

Franklin Roosevelt

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6
Q

Why did America enter the war

A

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

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7
Q

How many Jews died in the Holocaust

A

6 Million

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8
Q

How many total died in the Holocaust

A

11 Million

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9
Q

When is another name for Kristallnacht

A

Night of Broken Glass

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10
Q

What was the Final Solution

A

Hitler’s final plan for treatment of Jews

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11
Q

How many survived the Holocaust

A

4 Million

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12
Q

How many died at Auschwitz

A

1.5 Million

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13
Q

What was the first concentration camp

A

Dachau

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14
Q

What side launched Operation Torch

A

Allies

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15
Q

Who Led Operation Torch

A

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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16
Q

What was the code name for D-day

A

Operation Overlord

17
Q

What were Kamikazes

A

Japanese Suicide Pilots

18
Q

Where was the first ever atomic bomb dropped

A

Desert in New Mexico

19
Q

Where was the second atomic bomb dropped

A

Hiroshima

20
Q

Where was the third atomic bomb dropped

A

Nagasaki

21
Q

Who did Japan surrender to

A

General Douglas MacArthur

22
Q

How many nations signed a peace treaty with Japan

A

48

23
Q

What were the Nazi leaders charged with in the Nuremberg Trials

A

Waging a war of aggression and crimes against humanity

24
Q

What political party numbers skyrocketed

A

Communist Party

25
Q

What was article 9 in The New Constitution in Japan

A

Japan could no longer make war