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fuhrer
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leader
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Stalin
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Soviet Union
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Luftwaffe
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German air force
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Triton
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Nazi navel code
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Luftewaffe
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The German airforce.
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Israel
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home of the Jews
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Blitzkrieg
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German lightning warfare. Characterized by highly mobility and concentrated forces at point of attack.(Air and ground forces)
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United Nations
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International peacekeeping organization that most nations are in, to promote peace.
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Winston Churchill
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prime minister of Britain
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no
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Was League of nations affective
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rationing
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limiting the purchase of products
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Evian Conference
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to discuss immigration-counties lowered amount comming into their nation
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Battle of Britain
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RAF vs. Luftwaffe
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Fascism
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militarism, extreme nationalsim, and blind loyalty to the state
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Zionism
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a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine
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Lebensraum
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"living space", Hitler wanted to defeat Russia and conwuer Ukraine to expand Germany's boarders
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Facism
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Government based on a strong centralized government headed by a dictator, promotes loyalty to the state.
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americans land in africa...
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casablanca oran algiers
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Tojo
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Japanese military leader who refused to surrender
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Main concentration camps
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Auschwitz, Buchenland, Dachau, Treblinka
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Locarno Pact
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demilitarize Germany by making permanent boundaries with Belgium and France
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Sarajevo
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Location where the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austrian Empire was assassinated
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1945
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end of WWII liberation of camps
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Ghettos
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In Poland, Nazi isolated Jews into dismal, segregated areas of the city called what?
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who, what-Japanese internment
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americans and japanese americans, moved japanese americans to middle of US so they couldnt help in event of invasion
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Executive Order 9066
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Sent japanese to internment camps
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Benito Mussolini
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Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935), joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936), and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy. (p. 786)
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U.S.S.R.
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stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
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Operation Barbarossa
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Codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during June 1941 of World War II -- led to USSR joining the Allies
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Holocaust
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the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
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isolationalism
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belief that political ties to other countries should be avoided
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Nuremburg Racial Laws
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antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany
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Disarmament
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act of reducing or depriving of arms
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101 airborne
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a us airborne force whose contributions during the dday invasion and the batle of the bulge were key to the allied victories
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Einsatzgruppen
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SS paramilitary groups that took part in the systematic killing of mostly civilians, including: Jews, communists, intellectuals, and others.
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Hitler
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German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)
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Nagasaki
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2nd place that the bomb was dropped
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Truman
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Elected Vice president in 1944; 33rd President, after FDR's death; led the U.S. through the end of World War II and beginning of the Cold War
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S.S. St. Louis
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Ship that left Hamburg,Germany(Hapag American Line) for Cuba in May 1939. Had Jews that wanted to escape Hitler's Germany. For many of the passengers onboard it was the last chance to escape German tyranny(as US passports had become harder to come by).930 refugees were prevented from entering Cuba ,and asked US for Asylum and were denied. As a result they had to go back to Europe and found refuge in Belgium, Holland ,and France. Signaled that Jews were not welcome in US.
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suicide
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Because Hitler was unwilling to accept defeat, he committed _______.
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John Pershing
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The head american general during World War I
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Nuremberg Trials
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Where Nazi War criminals were tried and convicted of war crimes during WWII
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Austrian Anschluss
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The forceful union of Austria into Germany
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Charles De Gaulle
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french general who heads towards london and sets up the French government in exile on request. Even though france is about to fall; later President of France for 2yrs after WWII
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Hiroshima
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City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. (p. 797)
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Prime minister of Japan during World War II
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Hideki Tojo
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11 6
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of europes ___ million jews about _____ were killed
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Treaty of Versailles
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punished Germany for World War I
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Yalta Conference
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FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War., On the Black Sea; the Big Three met in February 1945 in southern Russia; it was agreed that Germany would be divided into zones of occupation and would pay heavy reparations to the soviet Union in the form of agricultural and industrial goods; when the Big Three met in 1945 at Yalta in southern Russia they agreed that east European governments were to be freely elected but pro-soviet.
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true
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the invasion of poland began ww2 in england
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lin less act
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let the US sell war items
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Kristallnacht
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"Night of Broken Glass" Nov. 1938, a Jewish boy's father was deported to Poland after living in Germany for 27 years, Herschel Grynszpan tried to avenge his deportation by shooting an employee of the German Embassy in Paris; Nazis launched attack on Jewish community; Nov. 9, storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues all over Germany, killing 100 Jews, and glass broke all over the streets; Marked a major step-up in Nazi policy of Jewish persecution, Jews future looked grim
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burma
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a southeast asian country that was a major front in the southeast asian theater during ww2. with the help of the japanese, the burmese army expelled the british from most of burma temporarily, but the british regained the country by the end of the war
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Japan
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invades China and is brutal and more militant and more aggressive in 1937
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Quebec Conference
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A war time conference held at Quebec,Canada that was attended by FDR, Churchill, and King and discussed war strategies
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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Kept Australia safe, Henderson field, Jap. vs. US
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Sunbelt
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states in the south and southwest that have a warm climate and tend to be politically conservative
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Adolf Hitler
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A Political leader, born in Austria, who defended Germany, who believed that Germany had to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism. He created the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( NAZI). He created the SS, banned and killed other political parties, and made the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls
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Munich Agreement
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In an effort to appease German ambitions, Britain and France agreed in this in 1938 to let Germany occupy part of Czech, yet this appeasement only furthered Hitler's conquests.
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East
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A second front was opened to ease pressure in the ____.
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the new culture movement
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the Chinese wanted to reform
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war crime trials
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nuremberg trials in germany and war crime trials in j, outcome
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Franklin Roosevelt
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a dictator of USA during world war 2
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Civil war in spain
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1936 , Francisco franco
nazis help franco
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manhattan project
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code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II
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island-hopping
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Strategy of Allies in World War 2 of capturing some Japanese-held islands on the way to Japan.
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Chancellor
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the head of a government, such as in germany. Hitler became this after Field-Marshal Hindenburg's consent
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man-made famine
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work to death in labor camps, millions starve, destroy stuff so no one has anything
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Pearl Harbor
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US military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941, bringing the United States into World War II.
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Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
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August 1939
Freed Hitler to use force against Poland without fear of Soviet intervention
Shocked the leaders of Europe
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The anschluss
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when Austria was annexed to the German Third Reich on March 12, 1938. (took over a country without a shot fired)
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Killing Vans
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The vans would collect Jews and then the put them in the back of a van and them allow the carbon monoxide to come back in the back of the van and kill the people inside.
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World War II
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1939-1945; called the "good war" where 60,000,000 people were killed
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What is D-day?
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D-day is when the Allied forces invade 5 beaches in France with the hopes to start the squeeze. They are successful
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Name the "Big Three" leaders who met at the Yalta Conference.
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Churchill, FDR, Stalin
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Bataan Death March
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walk of 600 miles to a concentration camp for American soldiers that surrendered in the Pacific
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School of the Americas
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-stationed in the US, people from Latin America were sent there and then sent back after they finished training
-teaching American values to young boys of Latin America
-taught torture methods: physical, abuse, false imprisonment, death
-many police were educated at school of Americas
-still operating today, but under a different name
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Korematsu v United States
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1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans.
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Cash & Carry
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US policy that allowed the sale of material to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation.
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Asia for Asians
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an idea that the Japan would build their own asian empire
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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-members of United Nations - Great Britain, U.S., France, Chia, and Soviet Union
-largely powerless, Stalin sees NATO as subversion of UN
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NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Org)
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(1949) 12 of the nations pact together with Greece, Turkey, and Fed. Repub of Germany, for purpose of collective defense against aggression
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Who was blamed for Germany's economic collapse in the 1930's?
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The Jewish population in Germany
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The Supply Priorities and Allocation Board
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oversaw the use of scarce materials and resources vital to the war, adjusting domestic consumption to military needs
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What is an "Aryan" and name 3 requirements to be an "Aryan"
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Christian, Blond hair, Blue eyes, Light skin, Physically fit
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fascism a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
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a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
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why so hitler so willing to break the willing treaty of versailles?
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Hitler argued that under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles Germany was militarily weak. He said that Germany had been willing to keep to this state of affairs if other countries disarmed. As this had not happened, Germany now had to take measures to protect herself.
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