WWII Vocab Part 3 & 4

Question 0

Genocide

Answer 0

A systematic killing of a racial, political, or cultural group

Question 1

Nuremberg laws

Answer 1

anti-Jewish statutes enacted by Germany on September 15, 1935, marking a major step in clarifying racial policy and removing Jewish influences from Aryan society.

Question 2

Quotas

Answer 2

Limiting the number of people who can travel from one place to another

Question 3

Auschwitz

Answer 3

A system of concentration camps in Poland

Question 4

Liberate

Answer 4

Two free someone or something

Question 5

Concentration camps

Answer 5

a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy.

Question 6

Nuremberg trials

Answer 6

A series of trials in 1945 and 1946 in which an International military tribunal convicted former Nazi leaders of war crimes

Question 7

Yalta conference

Answer 7

Held in February 1945 in the Soviet city of Yalta a conference of the main allied leaders- US Pres. Franklin D Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin- to plan the future of post World War II Europe

Question 8

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 8

The two cities in Japan that the US bombed with atomic bombs

Question 9

Potsdam conference

Answer 9

In July and August 1945 in the German city of potsdam, a conference of the main allied leaders – US Pres. Harry S Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and later his succesor Clement Atlee, and soviet premier Joseph stalin– To finalize post World War II plans for Europe

Question 10

V-E Day

Answer 10

When Germany surrendered in Europe

Question 11

V-J day

Answer 11

The day that Japan surrendered

Question 12

Atomic bomb

Answer 12

A bomb which explosive power that comes from energy suddenly released by splitting the nuclei of uranium or plutonium Atoms