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9 - World History
Unit 8B World War 2- Part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An extermination of an entire people population is called what? | genocide |
| What is the term for the killing of 6 million Jews and 4 million others during WW2? | The Holocaust |
| What is prejudice against Jews? | Anti-Semitism |
| What were the Nuremberg Laws? | Anti-Semitic laws that deprived Jewish citizens of rights |
| What is the name for the night of broken glass where synagogues were burned and Jewish businesses' were destroyed? | Kristallnacht |
| What is the name for the location where Jews were rounded up and isolated prior to being sent to concentration camps? | ghettos |
| What did the Final Solution consist of? | eliminate all Jews in Death Camps where they would mass execute in gas chambers and commit medical experiments. |
| What was created to show that the U.S. and Great Britain were committed to supporting the restoration of self-governments for all countries that had been occupied during the war and allowing all peoples to choose their own form of government? | The Atlantic Charter |
| The Yalta Conference was a meeting between whom? | Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.), Stalin (Russia), and Churchill (Great Britain) to discuss postwar plans for Europe |
| Who became president with Franklin D. Roosevelt died? | Harry S. Truman |
| Who met in July 1945 at Potsdam Conference to discuss postwar Europe? | Truman (U.S.), Stalin (Russia), and Clement Attlee (Great Britain) |
| What was decided at the Potsdam Conference? | Germany would pay war reparations (by zone), and Stalin used military to establish Communist "buffer zone" |
| What was The Manhattan Project? | the project to develop the 1st atomic bomb during WWII; it was a code name to keep it secret. |
| What is a weapon that uses a nuclear reaction to create a massive explosion? | atomic bomb |
| Who was the project director of the atomic bomb, a.k.a. The Manhattan Project? | Robert Oppenheimer |
| Where was the first atomic bomb dropped and when? | Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 |
| Where was the second atomic bomb dropped just three days after the first? | Nagasaki, Japan |
| Which countries surrender at the end of WWII? | Germany on May 7th, 1945 and Japan on August 14, 1945 (in response to 2nd bomb) |
| What day is VE Day? | May 8th is Victory in Europe (Day) |
| Which countries are reinstated after WW2? | Korea, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Israel |
| What was created in April 1945 as a forum for nations to negotiate peacefully to prevent another world war? | The United Nations |
| Who was considered the "father" of the United Nations? | Cordell Hull |
| What type of government controlled West Germany? | Democratic |
| What type of government controlled East Germany (including Berlin)? | Communist |
| What is the trial called that put Nazi leaders on trial for "crimes against humanity"? | Nuremberg Trials |
| Who is someone forced to leave their country? | refugee |
| How many Europeans were refugees after the war? | 60 million |
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