WWII Dunkirk - Holocaust

Question 1

Cash and carry program

Answer 1

39-40 assisted Great Britain - supplies

Question 2

Lend - lease program - 1941

Answer 2

The USA could lend or lease arms or other supplies to any country “vital to the defense of the USA”\
• Great Britain, china and the Soviet
By 1941 the USA was fighting an undeclared war on the axis powers

Question 3

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 3

• invasion of the Soviet Union - June 41 - eastern front

Question 4

Why did hitler want the Soviet Union?

Answer 4

• 1. lebensraum (living place) for German people
• 2. Largest population of Jews - wanted to exterminate
• 3. Natural resources - oil, etc
• 4. He hated the commies

Question 5

Red army

Answer 5

Russians not prepared!

Question 6

Battle of Leningrad - 41

Answer 6

• 900 day siege! - of the 2.5 million residents, 1 million died

Question 7

Battle os Stalingrad

Answer 7

fought for control over the Russian oil fields!
• ordered “fight to the death” no surrender
• Lasted 5 months

Question 8

Turning point of the war on the eastern front

Neither city surrendered

Answer 8

The soviets lost the most people in the war, 20 million people

Question 9

The Russian campaign was hitlers greatest mistake - why?

Answer 9

• drained his manpower (lost one third) and military resources + he gets himself in a 2 front war

Question 10

Battle of Pearl Harbor

Answer 10

US naval base in the pacific (Hawaii)

Question 11

Isoroku Yamamoto

Answer 11

admiral of the Japanese navy plans the attack

Question 12

Sunday, December 7, 1941 - SUPRISE ATTACK

USA IGNORED 2 WARNING SIGNS (2)

Answer 12

1. Midget submarines discovered! 4am

2. Radar sighting - 7am

Question 13

7:55, first wave

Answer 13

• 2 waves of bombers/torpedo planes 3 targets: aircraft carriers (flat tops) battle ships, and airfields
• USS arizona - memorial
• Destroyed 18 ships, including 8 battleships - 188 airplanes, and killed 2,403 men

Question 14

Attack was not a complete success! Why?? (3)

Answer 14

The Japanese failed to:

1. Destroy the repair facilities
2. Destroy the fuel depots
3. Destroy the US aircraft carriers!

Question 15

FDR/USA declare war on japan on this day

Answer 15

December 8, 1941

Question 16

Results of Pearl Harbor (3)

Answer 16

1. USA enters WWII
2. unites the people of the USA! Americans wanted revenge
3. Internment camps: 110,000 Japanese americans (Nisei) were forced into prison camps by the American government in the US - lost everything they had

Question 17

Bataan death march

Answer 17

(66 miles/10 days) - Philippines - 70,000 american/filipino prisoners forced to march 50 miles from corregidor island - 27,000 died

Question 18

40% of american POWs died in Japanese war camps. 1% in German camps

Answer 18

*US commander of thhe pacific theater Gen. Douglas MacArthur promises is men, “I SHALL RETURN.”

Question 19

2 major naval / airbattles - 1942

Answer 19

1. Battle of the coral sea: (may)
   • the US fleet stops the invasion of Australia
   *2. Battle of midway: (June)
   • US defeats the Japanese and stops their planned invasion of Hawaii

Question 20

American strategy to win the pacific theater:

Answer 20

Island hopping - purpose was to get close enough to launch bombing attacks on japan

Question 21

Battle of Guadalcanal - island of death

Answer 21

• 6 month bloody battle to control the airfield

* ***It was the first major island taken from the Japanese

Question 22

Heinrich Himmler

Answer 22

head of the SS (black shirts) were in charge of the holocaust

Question 23

Hitlers “final solution” (code word) to the question of what to do with Europe’s 12 million Jews? 4 parts/things

Answer 23

1. Immigration - make life so bad in Germany that they flee the country. Why it failed? Great Depression
2. Mobile death squads - (soviet union) (EINSATRAZGRUPPEN) - dug trenches and were machine gunned to death. Why it failed? Destroyed morale
3. Ghettos - Jews rounded up in cities (Poland)and put behind barbed wire and forced to work with little food. Starved to death why it failed? Died to slowly. Holding tanks: shipped to death camps
4. Death camps / Gas chambers: Jews gassed in showers and cremated in ovens

Question 24

People who experience/ helped out against the evil: heroes!

Answer 24

1. Corrie ten boom - Dutch Christian who hid Jews - “hiding place”
2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer - German Protestant pastor who gave is life - “the cost of discipleship”
3. Oskar Schindler - businessma who gave his life saving Jews - “Schindler’s list”
4. Anne frank - Jewish girl who wrote a diary “diary of Anne frank”

Question 25

Three types of German concentration camps

Answer 25

1. POW camps: (stalag) - held prisoners of war - mostly in Germany 99%
2. Work camps - used slave labor to help the German war effort - (factories, mines, etc.) many worked to death! Mostly in Germany! %70 survival. - Dachau - was the most infamous one
3. Death camps: used to exterminate people.
   • all 6 were located in Poland
   • Auschwitz was the most infamous (1.1 million died)