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World War 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nurnberg Laws | 1935 were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. After the takeover of power in 1933 by Hitler, Nazism became an official ideology incorporating scientific racism and antisemitism |
| Crystal Night | The Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany (including Austria and Sudetenland) from the 9th and 10th of Nov 1938 |
| "The Final Solution" | Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust |
| Auschwitz | complex was the largest. three main camps, incarcerated prisoners at forced labor. One of them also killing center. (concentration vs. death) |
| Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | Germany and the Soviet Union - would not attack each other (less than 2 years) enabled a one- front war when Germany started World War II |
| Blitzkrieg | An intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.intensive aerial bombardment. lightning war |
| Battle of Stalingrad | was a major battle of WWII in which Germany and its allies fought the USSR for control of the city of Stalingrad. It took place between July 1942-Feb 1943. ended with surrender of German army. considered a major turning point in favor of the Allies |
| D-Day | The day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy |
| Yalta Conference | A meeting between the Allied leaders Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 at Yalta, a Crimean port on the Black Sea. The leaders planned the final stages of World War II and agreed on the subsequent territorial division of Europe |
| The Big Three | leaders of the British Commonwealth, the USSR, and the USA |
| Pearl Harbor | A harbor on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii, the site of a major US naval base, where a surprise attack on December 7, 1941, by Japanese carrier-borne aircraft inflicted heavy damage and brought the US into World War II |
| Internment | the imprisonment or confinement[1] of people, commonly in large groups, without trial |
| Island Hopping | establishing a line of overlapping island bases, as well as air control. The idea was to capture certain key islands, one after another, until Japan came within range of American bombers |
| Manhattan Project | The code name for the American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb. The project culminated in 1945 with the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, at White Sands in New Mexico |
| Hiroshima | A city in southwestern Japan. It was the target of the first atom bomb, which was dropped Aug 6, 1945, and resulted in the deaths of about one third of the city. This, with a second attack on Nagasaki, led to surrender and to the end of World War II |
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