WWII test study guide

Wannsee conference

A meeting in which the "Final solution" and use of concentration camps were decided in 1942, Heydrich was the chief executor of the "Final Solution". Held in Wannsee, Berlin

How did American involvement in the war grow from 1939 to 1941?

America started the Lend Lease act which was where we supplied the British with weapons.

How was intolerance formed from the minority groups

Bad things happened, they were shot and killed.

Benito Mussolini

Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935), joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936), and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy.

Blitzkrieg

German lightning warfare. Characterized by highly mobility and concentrated forces at point of attack.

Joseph Goebbels

Goebbels was head of Nazi propaganda and was instrumental in building hatred of the Jews. He attempted to flee Germany at the end of WWII, but committed suicide when captured by Allied forces.

Why did many Germans support Hitler and Nazism in the early 1930s?

Hitler got them out of depression and then he promised that they would be stronger than ever.

Why was appeasement an unsuccessful policy towards Hitler?

Hitler would take what he wanted anyway, he had forces that could have wiped out almost any country already.

Why did the invasion of Western Europe succeed?

It succeeded because France isn't a very big army and the army that they had was a volunteer army.

The United States, and Japanese relationship before Pearl Harbor

It wasn't a good relationship because of the death march.

Auschwitz

Nazi extermination camp in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and others were killed there.

Appeasement

Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability.

The role of air power in WWII

The air power was the war summed up, a lot of the attacks happened from the air, Tokyo bombing, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki bombing, are just two examples.

Civilian death toll

The death toll of the civilians was so great because the armies started taking out the population so that they couldn't make supplies.

Nazism

The doctrines of nationalism, racial purity, anti-Communism, and the all-powerful role of the State. The National Socialist German Workers Party, otherwise known as the Nazi Party. Nazism was advocated by Adolf Hitler in Germany.

How did the war affect daily life on the homefront?

The homefront got changed dramatically because people needed jobs, Henry Ford went from making automobiles to tanks.

How did the war help the U.S get out of depression

The war helped because it got us the jobs that we desperately needed.

Changes for women working

The women played more of an essential part in the war because they made supplies for the troops, planes.

What strategies did the African Americans use to try and gain equality rights during WWII

They used strategies like saying "We aren't the enemy, the Germans are".

Adolf Hitler

This dictator was the leader of the Nazi Party. He believed that strong leadership was required to save Germanic society, which was at risk due to Jewish, socialist, democratic, and liberal forces.

Truman and the Atomic bomb

Truman used the Atomic bomb because he was lazy and didn't want to warn the Japanese before he used the superbomb on them.

Fascism

a political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition

Pseudo-science

claims that are made on the basis of evidence that is designed to appear scientific; BUT, evidence is not based on the principles of the scientific method

Neville Chamberlain

he was a British commander, who wanted to make sure that Germany wasn't going to attack Brittan.

Axis powers

in World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936.

Concentration camps

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

Rhineland and Sudetenland

they were targeted by Hitler because Hitler knew that they lived by the same culture and that they would accept him there.

Mein Kampf

'My Struggle' by hitler, later became the basic book of nazi goals and ideology, reflected obsession