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What is genocide?
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the deliberate mass murder of a particular racial, political, or cultural group
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There were two ways in which Nazi occupied Europe was run, name one.
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Some areas (Poland) were directly annexed by Germany and made into provinces.
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What was the second way in which Europe was run by Germany?
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Most of occupied Europe was run by German military or civilian officials with help from local people.
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What is the deliberate mass murder of a particular racial, political, or cultural group?
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Genocide
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Who was Heinrich Himmler?
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The leader of the SS.
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What was Himmler put in charge of doing?
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He was put in charge of German resettlement plans in the east. He was to move Slavic people out and replace them with Germans.
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Who were the Slavic peoples?
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The Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, and Ukranian peoples.
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When did Hitler say that he will be interested in the fates of the Slavic peoples?
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When he needs them for slave labor.
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Why was forced labor used in Germany? How did this hurt Germany?
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When there was labor shortage. The ppl were taken from places occupied by Germany which also lost labor and could have helped Germany if they hadn't.
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What was the Final Solution?
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Genocide, or physical extermination of the Jewish population.
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Who was Reinhard Heydrich?
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Head of the SS's Security Service. --he was to administer the Final Solution
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How did Hitler describe the Aryans? The Jews?
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Aryans- creators of human cultural development.
Jews- parasites trying to destroy the Aryans |
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Who was supposed to administer the final solution?
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Reinhard Heydrich
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Who were the Einsatzgruppen?
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Special strike forces created bby Heidrich to carry out the Nazi Final Solution.
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How did Heydrich carry out the Final Solution?
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He created the Einsatzgruppen.
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Where were Polish Jews moved to?
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Ghettos with unsanitary houseing and inadequate amounts of food.
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The Einsatzgruppen "advanced" in their jobs. How?
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Their new job was being a mobile killing unit. They followed the army and gathered up Jews, executed them, and buried them in mass graves.
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How many death camps were built in Poland? What was the largest one?
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Six extermination camps
Auschwitz was the largest one. |
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What happened to the leading Slavic peoples? (Such as lawyers, judges, civil leaders, etc.)
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They were arrested and killed.
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What was the Holocaust?
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The mass slaughter of European citizens, particularly European Jews.
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What was the mass slaughter of European citizens, particularly European Jews?
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The Holocaust
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What are collaborators?
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People that assisted the enemy.
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Who were people that assisted the enemy?
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Collaborators
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Who were the first to be selected for gas chambers?
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Women and Children
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What ship was hit by a German torpedo on its way to Canada carrying children?
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The Atandora Star
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What raw materials did Japan need?
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Tin oil and rubber.
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What was the Japanese policy?
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"asia for the Asiatics"
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Why did people turn against the Japanese?
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They had no respect for any traditions, beliefs, or religions other than their own...
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What was WW2?
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A total war.
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What is mobilization?
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The act of assembling and preparing for war.
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What is the act of assembling and preparing for war?
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Mobilization
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There was a city named after Stalin...what was it?
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Stalingrad
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In this chapter, we learned of a city named after Lenin.
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Leningrad
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As Germany moved further into Russia, what did the people do?
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They moved machines and factories to the Urals, western Siberia, and the Volga regions. Machines were set up, and as people began to work, walls were set up around them
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What was the role of women in Russia?
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They worked in industries, mines, and railroads.
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Russia was the only country in WW2 to do what?
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Use women in battle (as snipers and in aircrews)
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Did the US fight on its own land?
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Nope! Too far away from Europe.
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What did the US do during the war? (other than fight)
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Supply the other Allies with military equipment.
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What did the construction of so many new factories in the US do?
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It created boomtowns, so many places became overpopulated. African Americans moved to places they hadn't lived before and caused racial riots.
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What happened when African Americans joined the war?
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They were segregated in their own battle units. Some became militant and prepared to fight for their civil rights.
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Who was the racist that said he cant tell the intentions of the Japanese Americans?
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Culbert Olson
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What happened to Japanese Americans in the US?
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They were moved to camps surrounded by barbed wire and were required to take loyalty oaths
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Why did Hitler think Germany lost WW1?
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The home front collapsed
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What did Hitler do to avoid the home front collapsing?
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He refused to cut consumer goods production or increase production of armaments 'til 1942.
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Who tripled the production of armaments and munitions in Germany?
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Albert Speer
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What does kamikaze mean?
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"Divine Wind"
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Who were the kamikaze?
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Young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their planes into US ships =[
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What General opposed female employement?
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General Hiedki Tojo
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INstead of putting women from Japan to work, who worked?
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Workers from Korea and China. -.-
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Who was the first to experience the effects of bombing?
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London, England.
Bombed by Germany |
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What were German air raids called?
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The blitz
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First German cirt to be attacked by bombs?
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Cologne
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The bombing of what German city killed 100,000 people?
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Dresden
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How was the atom bomb made?
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By splitting the atom.
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Why did the US decide to make an atom bomb?
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The fear that Germany would make one sooner...
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Where was the test explosion of the atom bomb?
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Alamogordo, New Mexico
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What two Japanese cities were bombed? What happened to them?
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Both cities, leveled. |
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Who (President) decided to use the atom bomb?
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Harry S. truman
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Mobilization of all people in Japan.
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People's Volunteer Corps
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What was the Cold War?
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the period of political tension following WW2 ad ending with the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s.
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What was the period of political tension following WW2?
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The Cold War
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Who met at the Tehran Conference?
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Stalin Roosevelt and Churchill
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Who were the Big Three?
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Britain, Soviet Union, and USA
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What was the focus of the Tehran Conference?
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The final attack on Germany
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Where was the Yalta Conference held?
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Russia
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What did Roosevelt want? Why did Stalin oppose?
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He wanted free elections to decide the political institutions of European countries. Stalin thought that some countries would be oposed to him and become a threat.
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Stalin would agree to help the US in Japan, if...?
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Russia could have Skhalin, the Kuril Islands, and two warm-water ports and railroad rights in Manchuria
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What was agreed upon for Germany?
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It was to surrender unconditionally, and its territories are to be divided evenly among US Britain, France, and Russia. Poland gets new gov.
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Who met at the Potsdam Conference?
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Stalin, truman, and Churchill, for Rosevelt had died.
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What did Truman want?
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Free elections to decide governments in Europe, also
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What was this "iron curtain"?
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The beginning of the Cold War...
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