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Global war
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Turning points in WW2 | shifted momentum from axis powers to allies |
| Hitlers promise to german people | unite germans, restore german pride |
| Hitler manipulating above conditions | promised jobs, economic recovery, end reparations and promoted nationalism |
| Policy of appeasement and hitlers reaction | hitler saw appeasement as weak and used it to take more territory |
| events of munich conference | leaders from brittan, france, germany, italy met deciding the fate of checks region |
| harsh terms of the treaty of versailles impact on germany | economic-crisis social-desire for revenge political- weimar rebuplic seen as week for accepting treaty militarily-10000 men limit to army |
| reasoning for civilians being targeted during war and targeted cities | break morale, force surrender ,london, warsaw, stalingrad, leningrad |
| similarities of napoleon/hitlers invasions of russia | invaded russia expecting victory, slowed by distance, major losses due to russias harsh winter |
| fasciest ideology | dictator has total control, extreme nationalism, military strength |
| location where allies opened a second front in WE? what was the operation called | normondy,france operation: d -day, forced germany to fight on 2 fronts, weakened german military strength |
| germanys last majot offensive attempt in WE | battle of bulge |
| timeline | 1939: germany invades polans 1940: battle of brittam 1941: pearl harbour, germany invades soviet union 1942: midway 1944: d-day 1945: hirohito surrender, ve day, hiroshima bombing |
| turning points in ww2 | axis troops surrendered in tunsania and allies take sicily d day, battle of midway, |
| events of kristallnacht | nazi mobs attacked jewish homes, night of broken glass, holocaust |
| events of muncih conference | britta/france agreed to let hitler take sudentenland from check in hopes of preventing war |
| appeasement/ how it let to ww2 | a policy where countries try to avoid war by giving into an agressors demands to keep peace |
| us strategy in pacific | island hopping to reach japan |
| how did the traty of versailles enable fasciest party in italy | caused economic decline, led to march on rome |
| cause of ww2 | germany invading poland 1939 |
| blitzkrieg | fast attck strategy |
| why did hitler not invade the soviet union right away | first wanted to secure deals with stalin divided poland with the USSR |
| hitler not able to invade england | brittan won the battle of brittan |
| us involvement inw ar? what event forced US into ww2 | no, pearl harbour |
| holocaust, final solution | holocause:nazi genocide of 6 million jews during ww2 final solution: nazi plan to eliminate all jews |
| manhattan project | US plan to create an atomic bomb |
| choice to drop bomb | Truman, to force japanese surrender |
| japans ww2 emperror | hirohito |
| who did hitler scapegoat | jews |
| mussolinin was known as | ill ducle(leader) |
| mussolinis method to obtain power | blackshirts to scare opponents |
| affects of nuremburg laws | jews stripped of natural rights, citizenship |
| similarities between the rise of mussolini and hitler | rose during economic crisis and instability post ww1 |