WWII

Hirohito

Emperor of Japan

Adolf Hitler

Leader of Nazi Germany

Douglas MacArthur

U.S Army General, Commanded the Southwest Pacific

Benito Mussolini

Invented Fascism, Leader of Fascist Italy

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Creator of the Atomic Bomb

Erwin Rommel

German Field Marshall

FDR

32nd President of the U.S

Josef Stalin

WWII Russian Leader

Paul Tibbets

Flew the Atomic bomb into Japan

Hideki Tojo

Japanese Army General

Harry Truman

33rd President, ordered the nuking of Japan

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japanese Navy Admiral

Fascism

Dictators control all of the citizen’s lives

Winston Churchill

Said the quote “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few” and was in the RAF and former president of UK twice

Charles de Gaulle

Former president of France

Dwight Eisenhower

34th President of U.S, general of the army in Europe.

Nazism

Beliefs associated with Nazi’s

Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler’s Book

Appeasement

A conclusion between war enemies

Isolation

Avoiding political entanglements

Third Reich

Nazi Germany

Munich Conference

Agreement between Germany, UK

Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

Agreement with Soviet Union and Germany

Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Nuked cities of Japan

Luftwaffe

German Air Force

Pearl Harbour

Place in Hawaii, bombed by Japanese planes.

Aryan

“ULTIMATE RACE”

Kristallnacht

Program against Jews, Night of the broken glass

Ghetto

Suburban part in a city

Final Solution

Mass genocide of Jewish people in Camps

Genocide

Nice word for mass **killing**

D-Day

Allies invading France in Normandy, Omaha beach

Kamikaze

Japanese pilots who stuff planes with bombs and fly into battle ships

Manhattan Project

Project to make the first nuke

Swastika

Symbol of Nazi Germany

Enola Gay

Plane that dropped the first nuke

Fuhrer

ruthless leader

Nuremberg Trials

Trials for Nazi Commanders

Why did the Allies try appeasement

To avoid war with Germany and the Allied Powers

Number these 1-5 from occurence

Hitler is allowed to take the Rhineland

Hitler is allowed to take all of Czechoslovakia

The anschluss is allowed to occur

Hitler is allowed to take Sudetenland

Hitler announces he will no longer follow treaty

1: Hitler announces he will no longer follow treaty

2: Hitler is allowed to take the Rhineland

3: The anschluss is allowed to occur

4:Hitler is allowed to take Sudetenland

5: Hitler is allowed to take all of Czechoslovakia

What countries were ruled by fascist dictators by the end of the 1930’s

Spain, Italy, Germany

The earliest incident leading up to WWII **in asia** was japan invading __________, A region of China

Manchuria

These two world leaders that signed a non-aggression pact one week before the invasion of Germany

Hitler and Stalin

Know the 3 following factors that kept countries from challenging Axis Empires

A global depression

Memories of tragedies in WWI

The belief in isolationism

What happened at the Munich Conference

Germany was permitted to take sudetenland

Did Hitler keep his promise of the Munich Conference?

No, he took **all** of Czechoslovakia

Three Major Axis Powers

Germany, Italy, Japan

What was the Maginot Line

It was a line of soldiers that France put around them to defend from Germany

Why did the Maginot Line fail?

It failed because it was not long enough and the German tanks went North of the line through the jungle and then invaded France

What was the German strategy used in WWII to overwhelm the enemy?

Blitzkrieg tactics

What were Blitzkrieg tactics

a method of offensive warfare designed to strike a swift, focused blow at an enemy using mobile forces, including armored tanks and air support

What battle is considered the **major** turning point in the war against Japan in the Pacific?

The battle of Midway

Around how many Jews were put to death as a result of Hitler’s Final Solution?

Around 6 million

What battle was HItler’s last Major offensive in Europe?

Battle of the Bulge

Was the Battle of the Bulge successful?

No it was not, it was an allied victory

Know the three blunders of Adolf Hitler.

Declaring war on the U.S.A

Invasion of Russia

Putting **way** too many resources into the genocide of Jews

Which country had the largest number of Jews killed in WWII?

Poland

At which location did Operation Overlord face the most resistance?

Normandy

What was the codename for the beach in normandy where the Allied faced the most resistance

Omaha Beach

Which two cities were nuked in Japan?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Which country in WWII had the most casualties.

Russia/Soviet Union

What organization was created after WWII to prevent another war from starting? (INCLUDED BOTH THE U.S AND SOVIET UNION

The United Nations

What battle cost the USSR over one million soldiers.

Battle of Stalingrad.

What was the first stage of the Holocaust.

Social Isolation. This was the beginning of the discrimination of Jews and was pretty much just petty things in society just because people were Jewish

What was the second stage of the Holocaust?

Forced Isolation. This is where things started to get serious and Jews started to get imprisoned and rights were stripped from them.

What was the third stage of the Holocaust.

The Final Solution. This stage was the mass genocide of every Jew in concentration camps. This is when the Germans were just killing to kill, and killed tons of Jewish people.