WWII Flashcards
Axis powers in WWII
Germany, Japan, and Italy
Allied powers
U.S., U.K., and France
Leader of Germany
Adolf Hitler
Leader of Italy
Benito Mussolini
Leader of Japan
Emperor Horito
Leader of U.S.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Leader of Britain
Winston Churchill
Leader of France
Charles De Gaulle
Hitler wanted to create a
Master race
How many people were killed due to the Nazis
11 million
Subjected to injustices and cruelties
German children taught ______ racially inferior
Jews and Gypsys
Where did Jews live
In ghettos
What happens to children in concentration camps
They were made slaves and they had medical experiments preformed on them
Forms of retaliation
took many forms
•Overt opposition was rarely wise
–retaliation from the Germans
–threats of deportation and on-the-spot death
order issued to deter resistance by allowing military courts to swiftly sentence resisters to death
–Those arrested under order were said to have disappeared into the “night and fog”
Nacht and Nebel
a group of students who produced pamphlets resisting the Nazi regime, and paid for it with their lives.
White Rose
Polish Jews resisted during the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Once boys turned this age, they were expected to join the nazi party
18
1936 Hitler made it mandatory for all children from 10 on to become members of the
Hitler Youth
Boys trained in the use of
Rifles
Boys and later girls were sent to fight for the
Reich
American soldiers fought against entire units of Germans soldiers ______ years old and younger.
12
In 1935, Hitler denounces provisions of the _____ and begins to arm Germany
Treaty of Versailles
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini occupies
Ethiopia
In 1937, ________ _________ open
Buchenwald Camp
Alarmed by German rearmament, France creates and alliance with
USSR
In 1936, Hitler takes control of
Rhineland
In 1938, hitler takes
Austria
In 1938, the nazis have their
Prosecution of the Jews
The dates the Jews really get F—–
November 9-10
In 1939, Hitler takes
Poland and Czechoslovakia
When Britain and France try to reason with Germany and accept their rule
Munich conference
When the Nazis start rounding up the Jews
Kristallnacht
Japan was preparing to overthrow
China
fast, hard-hitting tank-airplane forces, devolved by the Germans
blitzkrieg strategy
In 1940, Germany gets
Denmark and Norway
In June of 1940, the first prisoners arrive at
Auschwitz
After Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, this country enters the war.
‘Merica
In 1943, British and American troops get rid of Germany and Italy from
Africa
A crazy cracker who took the odd ones out (twins, people with disabilities) at concentration camps and preformed aweful experiments on them
Josef Mengale
A another cc who forced 444,000 people to be gassed
Rudolf Hoss
The lost people are gassed at Auschwitz during
November of 1944
Were was Anne Frank taken to once caught
Westerbok transit camp
Where was Anne Frank sent in the winter of 1944
Bergen-Belsen
The date the Germanys surrender
May 7, 1945
On January 27, The USSR liberates
Auschwitz
How many personeros were found alive at Auschwitz
7,000
Who give Otto Frank Anne’s diary
Miep Gies
In the fall of 1944, America regains
The Phillippines
The date the Japs surrender
August 14, 1945
