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WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| general traits of a totalitarian dictator | charismatic, beleif system, one party rule, control over individuals, control on society, |
| general methods of control used by dictators | police terror, indoctrination, propaganda and censorship, persecution of a certain group who has an undesirable trait or beleif |
| Josef Stalin country of orgin, country he was a dictator in, nickname, examples of use of fear to control | Georgia, Soviet Union, nickname was Stalin (means "man of steel") used power and fear by destroying all of his enemies and also had the NKVD (secret police) that helped keep people under control, also had slave labor camps called gulags |
| Josef Stalin process of industrialization and collectivization, treatment of kulaks, overall impact on nation | he had rapid industrialization from oil and steel, forced the govt to withhold food from the people so they would all starve, and the kulaks were better-off peasants, they refused to give up their property and were all killed or imprisoned/put in gulags |
| facism | a government that places a strong emphasis over complete control by force and oppression, often racist |
| Mussolini- country of orgin, country of which he became a dictator, nickname, ways he used fear to control, impact on the nation | orginal country was italy, came to be a dictator over italy, nickname was Il Duce (the leader) and used power and propaganda to get what he wanted, never got full control because the pope and the king were still in power (even though he "overthrew king") |
| Hitler- country of orgin, country he was a dictator in, nickname | Austrian, Germany, nickname Der Fuhrer (the leader) |
| what were the ideas contained in the Nazi Twenty Five Point Platform | union of all Germans under the greater German Reich, rejection of the Treaty of Versailles, get additional territories for the German people, citizenship determined by race, all income not earned by work taken, Hitler education, strong central govt. |
| ideas contained in Mein Kampf | means "My Struggle," states to break the treaty of vesailles, rebuild german army, remilitarize the rhineland, lebensraum (all slavs should be enslaved) purification of the Aryan race |
| Hitler's overall impact on the nation | ABSOLUTE $H!T!!!! |
| what is the group in Japan that gains power, and their overall vision on Japan's future | the Imperialist Military took over, and they thought that Japan should take over the entire pacific and were very militaristic |
| appeasment | when you keep the other countries happy to avoid going to war (almost always backfires) |
| impact of appeasment on European affairs at the end of the 1930's | Czechoslovakia was sacrificed to hitler, and France and Britain kept trying to please him, but it was never enough and contributed to a lot of instability |
| official starting date and location of WWII | September 1st, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland |
| reasons that America was isolated | they remembered the death and destruction of WWI, and they didn't want to get involved if they didn't need to, thought that Europe should deal with its own problems for once :0 |
| what was the NYE committee | group in Congress that was convinced that military equipment manufacturers were manipulated into joining wwI for the profits. |
| Neutrality act of 1935 | made it illegal for the US to sell arms to any country in war |
| Neutrality act of 1936 | made it illegal for the US to sell arms to any side of a civil war |
| Neutrality act of 1937 | required all nations to buy non military supplies on a cash-and-carry basis where they would send their stuff in boats and they would pay in cash |
| Destroyers for Bases | the us transferred 50 four piper destryers to UK in excange for 99-year rent free leases to establish US naval bases in british controlled territories |
| Lend-Lease Act | it allowed us to lend or lease arms to countries vital to the protection of the United States |
| Atlantic Charter: participants involved, goals and principles | FDR and Winston Churchill met to discuss that in a post-war world, countries would not be taken over, and that the people would have self-determination |
| Dr. Seuss's view on appeasment | he thought that it was stupid that we were doing it when we knew that we could help all of the suffering people in europe, and that we were being selfish and only caring about our own people |
| reasons why Japan was angry with the USA leading up to Pearl Harbor | they thought that the US was a threat to their power |
| goals of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor | they wanted to destroy the US Pacific Fleet so they could have complete control over the Pacific and Southeast Asia |
| date and location of Pearl Harbor | December 7th, 1941 in Oahu island in Hawaii |
| aftermath of Pearl Harbor (men killed, ships destroyed) | 2,403 US personnel, and 18+ ships destroyed or damaged |
| groups targeted by the Nazis in the Holocaust | Jews, Catholics, Slavs, anyone not Aryan, LGBTQIA+, disabled |
| neutrality act of 1939 | you could sell weapons to other nations but it was on a cash-and-carry basis |
| restrictions of the Nuremberg Laws | made Jews second-class citizens, Jews were not citizens, could not hold office, and were also determined Jewish by the affiliation of their grandparents, not of them |
| Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass, many Jewish synogouges and buisnesses were destroyed, Jews were sent to concentration camps and murdered |
| reasons for US to refuse to admit Jews during the 1930's | we were in the great depression still, and we couldn't admit people that we would have to financially assist, and Americans were anti-semetic |
| purpose of Einsatzgruppen | they were the mobile killing squads that would go around and kill the Jews |
| what happened at Babi Yar | it was the mobile killing squads that killed over 33,000 people in Kiev, Ukraine |
| difficulties faced by the Jews in ghettos | they were starved and worked to death and were also in danger of being sent on trains to death camps |
| purpose of the Wannssee conference and the final solution | the Nazis were trying to think about how they could get rid of the Jews as fast as possible, so they decided to mass murder all of the Jews |
| number and names of the Nazi death camps | 6, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| most deadly death camp | Auschwitz Birkenau |
| reason for the death marches in 1945 | they tried to hide the evidence of their genocide by marching all of the Jews back to camps inside Germany |
| overall death toll in the Holocaust | 17 MILLION PEOPLE |
| Selective Training and Service Act | first peacetime draft in us history, required all men from age 21-36 to register for the war, and then expanded to 18-64 |
| purpose of the Double V campaign | it was an attempt for African Americans to defeat facism abroad and racism at home |
| accolades of the Tuskegee Airmen | congressional gold medal in 2007, over 150 distinguished flying crosses, 744 air medals and 8 purple hearts |
| Accolades of the 100th Infantry Batallion | 3 presidental unit citations, 8 medals of honor, 1,703 purple hearts, and the congressional gold medal |
| accolades of the 442nd regiemtal combat team | 21 medals of honor, 8 presidential unit citations, and thousands of purple hearts |
| accolades of spanish and Jewish Americans | despite facing discrimination, they were very successful |
| importance of the Navajo code talkers | no one could break it because the only way that you would know the Navajo language was if you were a part of the Navajo community |
| inclusion of women in the armed forces | they were allowed to be nurses, pilots and mechanics at home in factories, fufilling the roles back at home that would normally be held by men |
| purpose of the cost-plus contracts | they were designed to rapidly maximized production of weapons and garuntee manufacturers reimbursment for all of the productin cost plus the set profit percentage |
| number of private buisnesses which converted to producing war products | over 50% |
| industry best suited for producing war goods | automotive and aerospace, ship building and industrial macheinery |
| developments of Henry Kaiser | founded Kaiser Permanente healthcare system, building masive ww2 liberty ships with assembly line methods, constructed major dams, and founded Aluminum and Steel companies |
| number of jobs created by the war | 17 million |
| purpose of Rosie the Riviter campaign | it was a propaganda effort that encouraged women to join the war effort |
| expirience of female workers during and immidiately after the war | they were forced out of their positions after the war, and this set the stage for future equality struggles |
| executive order 8802 | prohibited religious, racial, and national origin discrimination in the defense industry of the federal govt |
| location and reason for creation of the sunbelt | it described a shift in economic and political power away from the industrial Northeast and Midwest |
| executive order 9066 | it authorized the U.S. military to establish military areas from which any person could be excluded and put into, (the internment camps basically) |
| internment camps: who was sent there and why | Japanese Americans because they were seen as a threat to homeland security |
| rationing: purpose and items rationed | it was to ensure adequate supplies for military, and they rationed canned food, butter, coffee, meat then it was transportation, materials/clothing, and other goods such as coal, firewood, soap and stoves |
| purpose of victory gardens | to make our own food for our families not fighting so we could give more food to the men overseas |
| cost of WWII | 4-4.5 trillion |
| reason for the creation of the Office of War Information | it helped make communication better and keep enemy propoganda out of the country |
| Fall of the Phillipines date, place, and outcome | December 8, 1941- May 6th 1942, it happened in the Pacific theatre and the Japanese won and this started the Bataan death marches |
| Doolittle Raid date, place, and outcome | April 18th, 1942, pacific theatre, the Americans didn't do a lot of damage but they created phsycological warfare with Japan |
| Coral Sea date, place and outcome | May 4-8, 1942 in the pacific theatre and Allies won and damaged the Japs |
| Midway date, place, and outcome | Pacific theatre, June 4-7, 1942 and the US TURNING POINT OF THE WAR IN ASIA |
| Guadalcanal date, place, and outcome | Pacific theatre, Aug 7 1942-Feb 9 1943, allies won |
| Leyte Gulf date, place and outcome | October 23-26, 1944 in the Pacific Theatre and the allies won over Japan, destroying the Navy |
| Iwo Jima date, place and outcome | Pacific theatre of war, Feb-March, 1945 and was a US victory over Japan |
| Okinawa date, place and outcome | Pacific theatre of war, April to June 1945, allied victory |
| North Africa date, place and outcome | European theatre of war, June-May 1943 and resulted in allied victory |
| Battle of the Atlantic date, place and outcome | European theatre, September- May 1945, ended in allied victory and leaded to the collapse of the German submarine blockade |
| Stalingrad date, place, and outcome | August 1942-February 1943, European theatre, was the turning point of the war for the allies because it was a huge allied victory |
| Italian Campaign date, place and outcome | July 1943-May 1945, European theatre of war and was an allied victory, resulting in the death and fall of Mussolini |
| D-Day date, place and outcome | June 6th, 1944, was an allied victory in the european theatre of war |
| The Bulge date, place and outcome | December 16, 1944-January 25, 1945 and was in the European theatre and an allied victory, largest battle to ever occur |
| Bataan Death March: groups involved, number and treatment of POWs | American and Fillipino POWs were treated very harshly and forced to march with no food or water for miles and miles, there were 78,000 prisoners (12,000 us, 66,000 filipino) and 5-18 thousand were estimated to die |
| D-Day: date, beach names, location of American landings, number of American casualties | June 6th, 1944, 5 beaches (Juno, Sword, Utah, Omaha, and Gold) Utah was the westernmost beach, located on the Cotentin peninsula, and Omaha was east of Utah, the number of american casulalties was over 6000 |
| purpose of the Casablanca Conference, Tehran Conference | Tehran conference- Stalin, FDR and Churchill all got together to figure out how to defeat the axis powers Casablanca Conference- meeting between FDR and Churchill to plan how to defeat the axis through invading Sicily and the next phase of the war |
| Manhattan Project: purpose, location, lead physicist | primary goal was to design and test an atomic bomb before Nazis could, location was Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico, J. Robert Oppenheimer was lead physicist |
| location of A-bombs | Nagasaki and Hiroshima |
| significance and date of VE Day | May 8th, 1945, it was the end of the war and Nazi Germany surrendered |
| significance and date of VJ Day | August 15th 1945, officially announced on Sept. 1945, and WAS THE END OF WW2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| defining characteristics and traits of the greatest generation | extreme resilience, self-sacrifice and patriotism |
| Thomas Broderick- general story | parachuted in the Netherlands in the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, shot in the temple by a Germany sniper and was blinded, but he overcame it and had a sucessful life |
| Bob Bush- general story | he was a nurse, earned the Medal of Honor because he delivered life saving plasma to a wounded solider in one hand and sniped down the japanese in the other hand |
| Mary Louise Roberts Wilson- general story | first woman to be awarded the Silver Star for medical service in combat, because she kept operating when German shrapnel ripped throught their tent at the battle of Anzio |
| Martha Settle Putney- general story | she was a pioneering african american woman who was in the Women's Army Corps and was a trailblaizer for black rights in WW2 |
| Norman Mintea- general story | a Japanese American who was the first Asian-American cabinet seceratary and Congressman and he was also put in an internment camp during WW2 bc he was Asian |
| George HW Bush- general story | he was a U.S. Navy bomber pilot in the Pacific theatre of war and won the Distinguished flying cross because he survived being shot down, and he went on to be the 41st president of the United States |
| what were the four primary alternatives to dropping the a-bomb on japan | demonstration test where we drop it in the Japanese sea to show dominance, continue bombing/blockade, modification of surrender terms, and having the soviets help us invade Japan so they would be more likely to surrender |
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