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What was the Ukrainian Famine?
A famine from 1932
What was the Influenza Pandemic?
A pandemic from 1918
What is firebombing?
A bombing technique that causes destruction and fires; notably used by Allies in Hamburg and Dresden, killing 75,000 people.
What is genocide?
The intentional slaughter of a large group of people belonging to a certain ethnicity or nationality.
What was the Armenian Genocide?
The killing of 600,000 to 1 million Armenian Christians in Turkey, accused of aiding Russia.
What groups were targeted by the Nazis?
Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals.
What were the Nuremberg Laws?
Discriminatory laws against Jews enacted in 1935.
What was the Final Solution?
The Nazi plan to exterminate Jews from Europe, involving death camps like Auschwitz and gas chambers.
How many Jews were killed in the Holocaust?
6 million Jews and 5 million others.
What was the genocide in Bosnia?
A conflict after the fall of the USSR where Slobodan Milosevic aimed to rid Bosnia of Muslims, resulting in 300,000 deaths.
What was the genocide in Rwanda?
A conflict between Hutu and Tutsi, leading to the Hutu
What were the war reparations imposed on Germany?
Germany was required to pay billions of dollars, which ruined its economy.
What was the war guilt clause?
Germany was made to accept full guilt and responsibility for the war.
What contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany?
The failure of the Weimar Republic to handle economic problems.
What was the Nazi Party?
The Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party that came to power in 1932.
What is scientific racism?
The belief that certain races are genetically superior.
What is anti-Semitism?
The belief that Jews are responsible for all societal woes.
What was Kristallnacht?
A night of riots and destructive actions against Jews in November 1938.
What military alliances did Hitler form?
The Rome~Berlin Axis with Italy and the Anti
What was the policy of appeasement?
France and Britain allowed Hitler to continue his expansion without intervention.
What happened in Austria in 1938?
Germany and Austria united peacefully.
What was the Sudetenland?
A strip of land in Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted and was ceded to Germany.
What was the Munich Agreement?
An agreement allowing Hitler to take the Sudetenland, leading to the eventual takeover of Czechoslovakia.
What event triggered the Allied powers to declare war?
The invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.
What was Japan's expansion in Asia prior to World War II?
Japan had been encroaching over Asia and attacked China in 1937.
How was WWII similar to WWI?
Both were total wars where all resources were dedicated to the conflict.
What was Blitzkrieg?
A military tactic known as 'lightning war' involving fast
What was the Lend Lease Act?
A U.S. program to send large amounts of war materials to Britain.
What was the significance of Pearl Harbor?
A surprise attack by Japan on December 7, 1941, that outraged Americans.
What was the fall of Italy?
Italy was defeated in 1943, leading to the fall of Mussolini.
What was D-Day?
The massive amphibious landing in France on June 6, 1944.
When did Hitler die?
April 30, 1945, by suicide.
What is VE Day?
May 8, 1945, the day Germany officially surrendered.
What were the atomic bombings in Japan?
Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
What is VJ Day?
August 14, 1945, the day Japan officially surrendered.
