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WW2 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vladimir Lenin | Russian communist. wanted a society where everything was equal. Believes Russia should be the first communist country |
| Communism | wants everything to be the same and everyone have the same things |
| Russia is rich or poor | poor |
| Where did Lenin live | Switzerland and France |
| Lenin slogan | Peace Land Bread |
| Germans wanted to hurt Russa so they | Smuggled Lenin back in |
| Lenin's right hand men | Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin |
| Lenin announces ____________ will replace him | Joseph Stalin |
| philosophizer, understands communist theory but is not a good speaker. Nerdy, big on ideas, not personable. | Trotsky |
| a bully and can’t read. Known for killing dozens of people. Violent person growing up, went to prison for murder growing up. | Stalin |
| On Lenin’s death bed he writes a will saying he wants Trotsky to replace him and that he messed up saying Stalin. Stalin's response is | sending a team to kill Trotsky and everyone who knows about this so he can be in power |
| Benito Mussolini | married but still wanted to date, remarried and claimed to not know his old wife whom he was still married to and put her in a mental hospital and his daughter in an orphanage |
| Mussolini was hated by | Hitler |
| Mussolini was opposed to | communism |
| Mussolini and the | black shirts |
| in 1922, Mussolini and his supporters | marched into Rome, and the king and legislator fled. Mussolini said if they caught them they would all be executed. |
| Called himself IL Duce which means leader | Mussolini |
| Germany formed in | 1871 |
| Vinemar Republic | Germany's new government formed after King Kaiser |
| Who does the public blame for economic issues? | President Hindenburg |
| Adolf Hitler | Not German, Austrian. Trench runner in the war. |
| When he went to power he bombed the village he was born in and grew up in because history suggests he was Jewish and he was ashamed of his past. | Hitler |
| Ernst Rohm | Hitler's close friend. Leader of Nazi's origionally. Violent and like to cause riots |
| Nazi's | Became known as the brown shirts |
| Beer Hall Putsch/Beer Hall Rebellion | Hitler wants to take control over and hold mayor captive here but Hitler and Rohm get caught and are sentanced to 9 years in prison. |
| Hitler's book that he started writing when he was in prison. very long and doesn't make a lot of since. | Mein Kampf |
| German mythology says ______ climb down from the heavens and come to live in Germany- described as tall, big, muscular, blonde hair, and blue eyed men and women. | Airians |
| Living Space | Lebensraum |
| What do people think about Hitler's book? | It becomes very popular |
| Hitler's campaign slogan | Make Germany Great Again |
| how much of the vote does Hitler get? | 2% |
| Hitler says if he becomes Chancellor it will become the | third Reich (the third period of German greatness that will last 1,000 years) |
| What does Der Fuhrer mean? | Leader |
| Japan has | no natural resources |
| General Tojo | pushed for greater expansion of the Japanese emperor. |
| Generalissimo Francisco Franco | From Spain. Head of army and a fan of facism. |
| Rome-Berlin Axis | Hitler takes the continent, they can have Africa. Japan later gets involved in this. |
| _________ was one of the main starters of the Nazi | Ernst Rohm |
| Night of Long Knives | In July of 1934, Hitler ordered the SS to fan out over Germany. They killed hundreds of SA and politicians who had spoken out against Hitler. One killed Rohm |
| Nuremberg Laws Passed | Says anyone who is non Airian, can not be a: teacher, lawyer, doctor, a journalist, or a writer. |
| Known as the beginning of the Holocaust | Passing of the Nuremberg Laws |
| What year were the Nuremberg Laws passed? | 1935 |
| Reformed Judaism | started by Jews in the 1800s. Started in America |
| Americans were awear of the way Jews were being treated. Their response was | ignoring it and doing nothing |
| Invasion Of Austria | (1938) peaceful. This country welcomed them in and Germany took over. |
| To what country does history turn to after the invasion of Austria | Czechoslovakia |
| Winston Churchill | does not believe Hitler can be trusted |
| Joseph Stallin is named _________ by times magazine | america's uncle joe |
| Kristallnacht - Night of Broken Glass (1938) | Nazi officers rounded up civilians and marched through city streets to destroy workplaces, homes, and places of worship belonging to Jews. |
| 1939 The Final Solution | Hitler came up with his idea of the final solution which is the mass execution of minority populations. Hitler did not talk about this openly. But the German people knew this was something going on. |
| Jewish Relocation | forceful relocation of jews to concentration camps |
| 2 types of concentration camps | labor and death |
| America returns to it's old policies to not get involved | isolationism and neutrality |
| Poland falls | September 1st 1939. Attacks from land, air, sea. Hitler called this the lightning war because it happened so fast. Strategy that Hitler used again and again. |
| The process of the holocaust begins in _______ | Poland |
| Hitler declares ________ have no rights | nonairians |
| ________ pulled United states into the war | Pearl Harbor |
| What happened between France and Germany | they surrendered without a fight |
| Carpet Bombing | covering the whole area with bombs |
| England's response to NAZI aggression | they defend themselves until hitler gives up |
| land-lease act | America rents out weapons to countries in need, and if they can’t afford them, they let them borrow the weapons |
| Hitler betrays _________ and invades ___________ | Stalin, Russia |
| America establishes this tool which was an underwater radar | sonar |
| WAACs | army auxiliary |
| WAVES | navy auxiliary |
| WASPS | air force auxiliary |
| total war | all the countries resources are used towards war effort |
| ‘Why We Fight’ | series of educational short films to get people to support the war and to educate them about politics. 7 films |
| who created 5 year plans | stalin, he wanted russia to be modern very fast |
| War Bond | guarantee a certain amount back for money people pay for today |
| Boo-Hiss Films | films with Nazi's known as the bad guys |
| Hollywood Canteen | one in Hollywood and one in NYC. soldiers leave from these 2 coasts for war. These are essentially night clubs for soldiers, civilians could not get inside. TThe show is made up of big time celebrities. |
| Manhattan Project | america trying to figure out nuclear bombs. top secret, group of scientists working all over the country trying to figure out nuclear fission before the Nazi’s do. most don't know what they're trying to do. |
| rationing books | book from the government to keep track of how much you eat |
| The Invasion Ruse | A series of fake military bases are put together with inflatable tanks to mislead the Germans |
| Operation Meatloaf | Launched dead body into the ocean, and in a few days it washed up on the French coast. In this man's pocket it had the plan that Hitler thought that they would invade on that coast. |
| Operation Barbarossa | Plan to slow down Nazi’s invading Russia. Nazi’s were dressed in summer clothes and this started in June but since everything was burned and Nazi’s were not prepared, they were freezing and starving to death. |
| Stalin's response to operation Barbarossa | angry and wants revenge |
| Germany's weakness | fighting a two front war |
| General Dwight D. Eisenhower | everyone in WW2 answers to him and he answers to FDR |
| General Montgomery | second in command, in charge of all of the English forces. |
| Rommel | known as the desert fox. everyone is after him |
| Operation Avalanche | invasion of italy. Italians turn on Mussolini and start fighting against the Italian army. This scares Hitler. |
| Tehran Conference | FDR, Churchill, Stalin. First time all 3 met. |
| FDR and _______ have a lot in common | Churchill |
| Plan that comes from Tehran Conference | Plan to surround Germany until they all meet in Berlin on the banks of the River that flows through Berlin and they’re going to shake hands. |
| 101 Airborne | Flew people over enemy territory in complete darkness. dropped down, estimated 1/3 are dead before they hit the ground. once they hit the ground they are to go into battle and fight |
| Operation Overlord (D-Day) | 3 million people are sent into battle. Not all go in at one time, they are brought in in waves over the days ahead |
| Duck Boats | Designed in New Orleans, shallow boats. Driver flips left, then the front of the boat comes down, another leavar comes back up. Then turns around and gets the next wave. |
| ‘The underground’ | group of French who were sending messages to their French leaders in England. They were planting bombs throughout the city. Radioed ‘unleash hell’ then the underground started murdering Nazi’s and blowing things up. |
| The Battle of the Bulge | Battle around Berlin, 60 miles outside. The NAZIs have fortified all over the city. For a full month, the allies are trying to break through this line that the NAZIs have put in place. This is also one of the coldest winters recorded in German history. |
| Battle of Berlin | Lots of person to person fighting. Russians killed thousands of Germans just for coming into the city |
| How did Hitler die | he shot himself |
| Douglas MacArther | commander of the naval forces |
| Iwo Jima | 6,000 marines are killed on that one island. Towards the end of the war Japanese pilotes began to use a new tactic in which once their planes were shot they would intentionally steer their planes into American ships. |
| Operation Downfall | Plan for the invasion of Japan |
| Manhattan project | plan to build the nuclear bomb |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | both bombed by neuclear bomb, located in japan |
| Emperor Hirohito | seen as a god by japanese people. came over radio and surrendered. People are so distraught in Japan that they begin committing mass suicides.Tojo was arrested, put on trial, and hanged - very quickly. |
| VJ Day | August 15, 1945 |
| Potsdam Conference | Big 3 meet outside Japan. Churchill, Truman, Stalin. |
| Austria | 1938 |
| Czech | 1938 |
| Poland | 1939 |
| Scondanavia | 1940 |
| Belgium | 1940 |
| Netherlands | 1940 |
| France | 1940 |
| UK | 1940-1941 |
| Operation Sea Lion | against UK |
| Operation Meatloaf/Mincemeat | carried out against Germany in france |
| Operation Barbourosa | against Russia (USSR) |
| Operation Downfall | against Japan |
| Operation Overlord | against germany starts with d day |
| Operation Avalanche | against Italy |
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