ww2

Germany owed

30 billion in war debt and lost land

War debt made German money

Worthless

Hitler was from

Austria

What did he do before Nazi

Art

What does Nazi mean

National socialist German workers party

What does he do after joining Nazis?

He becomes the leader. Der Fuhrer

What ancestry does Hitler have

Jewish

Hitlers ancestor

Grandfather on dads side Leopold frankenberger from Jewish family in Austria

Mein kampf

Hitlers book to restore Germany to power and unite aryan master race

In 1933

Hitler become chancellor

Official USA policy on the war was

Neutrality

Was the USA really neutral?

No. USA loaned war materials to European countries.

First concentration camp

Dachau, 30 minutes outside of Munich Germany

How many killed at dachau

30-35 thousand

Other than labor what happened at dacgau

Human experiments like saltwater, pressurization chambers, and sea water temps

Tuskegee airmen

African American soldiers trained in Alabama as fighter pilots in ww2.

What did they Tuskegee airmen start as and what did they change to

Started as dive bomb missions but changes to escorts for larger bomber planes. Never lost a plane in their escort missions

Pearl Harbor

December 7 1941

How many died at Pearl Harbor

2400

What is USS Arizona

Most famous battleship lost, still leaking oil, and bodies never recovered

First atomic bomb dropped on Japan

little boy on August 6 1945

Who flew the plane that dropped little boy

Colonel Paul tibbetts

Where did bomb explode and how much

1500 ft above ground, equal to 15k tons of tnt

How many died from little boy

140k

Second atomic bomb

Fat man, dropped on August 9 1945 on Nagasaki

how powerful was fat man

21k tons of tnt

How many did fat man kill

Another 140k

Mitsuo tomosawa

American from Hawaii in Hiroshima and survived the blast

Why was mitsuo in Japan

To experience his ancestors culture

Mitsuos mom

Survived the blast because she missed her usual streetcar

Germany surrendered when

Hitler committed suicide in May 1945

Japan surrendered

September 1945, one month after nukes