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means living space, the building of a bigger Germany
lebensraum
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who would be put into work building the 3rd reich?
slavs
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what was created in March 1935? (2)
Luftwaffe and start of the military draft, 5x army, which violated the treaty of versailles
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what is Luftwaffe?
airforce
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What is Rhineland?
the DMZ between Germany and France
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What policy does Chamberlain begin against Hitler?
appeasement
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if we let Hitlre do this, he won't go to war
appeasement
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What pact do Germany and Japan both sign?
Anti-Comintern Pact
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what was the Anti-Comintern Pact against?
communism
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What does Hitler do in Prague in 1939?
ives a triumphant speech
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who form the Rome-Berlin Axis?
Mussolini and Hitler
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What does germany do on March 1936?
station troops in Rhineland
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What did Hermany do in March 1938?
Annexes Austria
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the german annexing of austria
anschluss
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what does germany do in Sept 1938?
occupies Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
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What does germany do in March 1939?
take the rest of Czechoslovakia
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What does germany do on Sept 1, 1939?
invades Poland
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Hitlr signs non-aggression pact with USSR in exchange for control of what?
Eastern Poland
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Wher does Japan move into?
allied controlled lands
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what does US slap on Japan?
trade embargoes refusing to give Japan metal for weapons
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Who plans the Pearl Harbor attack?
Yamamoto
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to attack and conquer quickly before the defending nation has time to regroup, used to confuse
blitzkrieg
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What do the Germans go around to get France?
the Maginot Line
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"Cash and Carry", and what?
"lend and lease"
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How is France divided?
- Northern 2/3=Germans
- Southern 1/3=Vichy Regime under Marshal Philippe Petan
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how long did Poland last against the blitzkreig
4 weeks
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a wall built by France alnog the border of Germany
Maginot Line
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What happened in the Battle fo Britain?
GB attacks Berlin, German airforce bombs GB military and major cities, Hitler gives up
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this german seige lasted 900 days, over 1 million starved
Leningrad
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this German seige was when the Germans encircled and cut off, the biggest battle of the war, 6th army surrenders
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What are Germans not prepared for in USSR?
winter
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the USSR used this, burning and retreating
scorched-earth policy
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When did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
Dec 7, 1941
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what causes the US citizens to ecome united in their thinking about war>
Pearl Harbor
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When theUS severely maims the Japanese Navy
Battle for Midway
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the US only stoppen at Japanese islands of strategic value
island hopping
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"I shall return"
Mac Arthur
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the 'desert fox', defeated the British at El Alamein, Egypt for the Suez Canal
German General Erwin Rommel
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Who is captured by Italians, but escapes, European theater
Mussolini
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who continues to fight when the Italians surrender
Germans
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the biggest invasion ever, within 3 months, water to land, amphibious, 2 million men and 1/2 million vehicles on Normandy beach
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when was D-Day?
June 6, 1944
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Allies meet up with siviets in Germany where?
Elbe Rive
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where do the sooviets enter in April 1945?
Berlin
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where does Hitler commit suicide?
in a bunker 55ft under the city
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who is killed by partisans?
mussolini
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built by Robert Oppenheimer, code name=Manhattan Project
atomic bomb
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dropped on Hiroshima
Enola Gay
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where is the second atomic bomb dropped?
nagasaki
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how many died in Battle?
17 million
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how many civilians died?
20 million
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the Nazis were in desperate need of labor, so the used what?
forced labor
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who did the Nazis routinely round up for forced labor?
- young men and political opponents
- later=citizens of occupied nations
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who were trying to escape forced labor
partisans
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Who did Hitler want to rid the world of?
not ethnic Germans, including Jews and Slavs
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who developed the final solution?
Himmler
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Einsatzgruppen
death squads
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who carries out the final solution?
SS and death squads
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composed of ordinary men who were told to kill Poles
death squads
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Who did the Nazis use to organize Jews in each town?
Jewish organizations and leaders
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small, blocked off areas where Jews were forced to live, severe shortages, deplorable conditions
ghettos
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What did the ews try to do in secret?
arry out normal life
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originally set up to house political prisoners and forced laborers
concentration camps
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routine deaths, threat of selections, barracks, starvation, bad hygiene, forced labor
concentration camps
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all are located in Poland
death camps
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the largest death camp
Auschwitz
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Who was the doctor for selection?
Dr. Mengel
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what came out of the shower heads?
Zyklon-B
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where were bodies put?
creamated in ovens
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how many Jews were killed?
6 million
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how many gentiles were killed
11 million
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name 5 of the gentile groups that were killed
- gypsies
- slavs
- homosexuals
- disabled
- Russian POWs
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these people helped the Jews in many ways, many suffered the same fate as Jews if they were caught, some issued Visas for Jews
Righteous Gentiles
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who saved almost all of their Jews by ferry to sweeden?
the Dutch
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where do many Jews move to with the blessing of the British
Palestine/Israel
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what do the Jews get after WWII?
Israel
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what happened to many children because of the war?
orphaned
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what required more women to enter the workfoce?
economic mobilization
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who soon became targets in total war?
civilians
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this country focused on military industy and not ood and housing
Soviet Union
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who were forced to work in industry, mines, and RR?
women and girls
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the only country to use women in Battle
USSR
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what did women serve as in the war?
- snipers and on ircrews of bombers
- air-raid wardens
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what did the US do to 100,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast?
Internment
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who tripled armaments through total war mobilizaation?
Germany
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this government kept close control of everything
Japan
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traditional Japan women roles
texrile and farming
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who were brought to work in Japanese factories?
foreigners (Koreans/Chinese)
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what did the german Luftwaffe do to major cities every night for months, and where?
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What bombs did GB use against Germany?
incendiary bombs
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many died here due to radiation poisoning
Japan
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the big 3 met to discuss the end of the war, they agree to a postwar partition of Germay
Tehran Conference
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the big 3 met, stalin wants a buffer of communism, roosevelt wants self-determination, UN is established, free elections in Poland, germany must surrnder unconditionally
Yalta conference
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truman demands free elections, stalin is worried and is looking for security
Potsdam conference
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churchill declares that this had fallen over Europe, beginning the Cold War
Iron Curtain
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tribunals which tried war leaders for committing agressive war and criimes against humanity
War Crimes Trials
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what trials were for the Nazis?
Nuremberg Trials
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Name two countries tha had War Crimes Trials
Italy and Japan
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