American History Exam 3 (keep)

The Jews were divided into what three groups when arriving at the Concentration camps

Workers, Gas Champers and Medical and war-time experiments

Types of experiments performed on Jews

Genetic, poisons and weapons of war, & grafting and transplants

How many Jews died in the camps?

6 million

Causes of WW2

Treaty of Versailles, militarism and imperialism on part of Italians, Japanese, and Germans

What was September 1, of 1939?

First day of warm, marks Hitlers invasion of Poland, & Britain and France declared war against Germany

Phony War

Time period following British declaration of was when no action was taken by the British or French

Dunkirk

Germans were slaughtering British and French soldiers in battle at Dunkirk

Maginot Line

Was a line of concrete French fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery, machine gun posts, and other defenses which France constructed alone its borders with Germany

Henri pertain

French leader who made a deal with the NAZIs which included the surrender of France in 1940

Vichy France

Southern France was to be ruled by Henri Petain as part of the deal with NAZIs

French resistance

“Underground” movement that worked against the NAZIs in France

Charles De Gaulle

Was the leader of the French resistance and orchestrated the operations from London

Battle of Britain

Hitler throws everything he has against the British

Eagle squadron

American flyers who flew for the British before American involvement in war

Leaders of the allied nations

Soviet Union: Josef Stalin

USA: Franklin Roosevelt

Britain: Winston Churchill

Pearl Harbor

December 7th, 1941. Japanese attacks and the US enters war

Operation Barbarossa

German invasion of Russia

Benito Mussolini

Leader of Italy, ally of hitler

Battle of the Bulge

Was the last major German offensive launched towards the end of WW2 through the forested Ardennes mountains region of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg

D-day Invasion (Normandy)

June 6th, 1944. Allies invasion of France.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Commander of the Allied forces

Nuremberg trails

A series of trails most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military and economic leadership

Franklin Roosevelt

Dies in 1945 before the wars ends

Harry Truman

His vice president will become president

Manhattan projects

Led by Robert Oppenheimer - top secret project to develop the atomic bomb

Douglas MacArthur

American general who accepted Japanese surrender

Albert Einstein

German Jewish scientist who persuaded Roosevelt to being developing bombs

Allied plan to win war

Cross North Africa and enter Italy heading to Germany, Russians were to come from the east and toward Germany, and allied invasion at Normandy to liberate France and then advance on Germany

Wash in Europe

Ends may 1945

War in Asia

Ends august 1945

Paul tibbits

Pilot of the Ebola gay, plane that dropped atomic bomb over Hiroshima