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Aryans |
Germanic people who believed they were the "master race" |
blonde hair, blue eyes, tall |
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Holocaust |
mass slaughter of civilians, especially Jews |
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Ghettos |
Segregated Jewish areas, Hitler used these to isolate and starve out Jews |
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Auchwitz |
largest death camp |
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Kristallnact |
"night of broken glass" November 9 |
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final solution |
Hitler's plan to eliminate Jews |
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SS |
Hitler's Elite Security Force |
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genocide |
systematic killing of and entire people |
the holocaust was this |
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Operation torch |
allied campaign in Morocco and Algeria led by Eisenhower which crushed Rommel's Afrika Corps |
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rationing |
the limiting of the amount of goods people can buy--often imposed by the governments during wartime when goods are in short supply |
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casablanca |
where Churchill and Roosevelt met to reach a decision to attack Italy first |
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V-E Day |
Victory in Europe Day |
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Operation Overload |
code name for Nomamdy Invasion "D-Day" |
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Battle of the Bulge |
Germany made a huge offensive near Ardennes forest trying to break through weak American defenses... line wouldn't break |
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Kamikaze |
"divine wind" Japanese suicide bombers |
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Okinawa |
bloodiest battle in the pacific |
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Dredsen |
a German city that the British and American bombers launched a massive attack on February 13, 1945 |
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Nuremberg Trials |
a series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany after WWII in which nazi leaders were tried for: 1)aggression 2)violations of the rules of war 3)crimes against humanity |
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demilitarization |
a reduction in a country's ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons |
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Leyte Gulf |
a battle on October 23 |
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El Alamein |
Axis Battle, Rommel retreated |
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Nisei |
Japanese Americans |
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Manhattan Project |
a secret project of making nuclear bombs |
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Doug MacArthur |
allied military leader against Japan |
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Doug MacArthur |
allied military leader against Japan |
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Dwight Eisenhower |
accepted unconditional surrender |
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Diet |
Japanese Parliament |
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Diet |
Japanese Parliament |
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What 2 actions did Hitler try with the Jews before he turned to genocide? |
1)Ghettos 2)Emigration |
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Diet |
Japanese Parliament |
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What 2 actions did Hitler try with the Jews before he turned to genocide? |
1)Ghettos 2)Emigration |
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Who were usually chosen to die in the death camps? why? |
Women young children elderly sick
because they couldn't work |
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Diet |
Japanese Parliament |
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What 2 actions did Hitler try with the Jews before he turned to genocide? |
1)Ghettos 2)Emigration |
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Who were usually chosen to die in the death camps? why? |
Women young children elderly sick
because they couldn't work |
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what deprived German Jews of their rights to citizenship, jobs, and property? |
1935 Nuremberg Laws |
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Diet |
Japanese Parliament |
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What 2 actions did Hitler try with the Jews before he turned to genocide? |
1)Ghettos 2)Emigration |
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Who were usually chosen to die in the death camps? why? |
Women young children elderly sick
because they couldn't work |
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what deprived German Jews of their rights to citizenship, jobs, and property? |
1935 Nuremberg Laws |
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why do you think that the Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point for both the Allies and Axis Powers? |
Allies- didn't have to fight Axis- killed over a million people |
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why did the U.S. lower the speed limit to 35? |
to save on gas and rubber |
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why did the U.S. lower the speed limit to 35? |
to save on gas and rubber |
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how did the allies try to fool the Nazis into thinking that the Normandy invasion would take place in Calais? |
set up a dummy army in Calais |
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why did the U.S. lower the speed limit to 35? |
to save on gas and rubber |
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how did the allies try to fool the Nazis into thinking that the Normandy invasion would take place in Calais? |
set up a dummy army in Calais |
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what was the risk the Japanese Navy took in the Battle of Leyte Gulf? |
try and destroy American troops and the Americans supplied their own ground troops |
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why did the U.S. lower the speed limit to 35? |
to save on gas and rubber |
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how did the allies try to fool the Nazis into thinking that the Normandy invasion would take place in Calais? |
set up a dummy army in Calais |
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what was the risk the Japanese Navy took in the Battle of Leyte Gulf? |
try and destroy American troops and the Americans supplied their own ground troops |
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how did President Truman justify the use of Atomic weapons on Japan? |
said it would bring the war to an end more quickly |
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why did the U.S. lower the speed limit to 35? |
to save on gas and rubber |
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how did the allies try to fool the Nazis into thinking that the Normandy invasion would take place in Calais? |
set up a dummy army in Calais |
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what was the risk the Japanese Navy took in the Battle of Leyte Gulf? |
try and destroy American troops and the Americans supplied their own ground troops |
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how did President Truman justify the use of Atomic weapons on Japan? |
said it would bring the war to an end more quickly |
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List the 3 charges brought against the 22 Nazi leaders. |
1)waging a war of agression 2)war crimes 3)crimes against humanity (murder of 11 million people) |
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why did the U.S. lower the speed limit to 35? |
to save on gas and rubber |
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how did the allies try to fool the Nazis into thinking that the Normandy invasion would take place in Calais? |
set up a dummy army in Calais |
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what was the risk the Japanese Navy took in the Battle of Leyte Gulf? |
try and destroy American troops and the Americans supplied their own ground troops |
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how did President Truman justify the use of Atomic weapons on Japan? |
said it would bring the war to an end more quickly |
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List the 3 charges brought against the 22 Nazi leaders. |
1)waging a war of agression 2)war crimes 3)crimes against humanity (murder of 11 million people) |
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explain how Nuremberg represents both the beginning and end of the Holocaust |
beginning- it was the Nuremberg laws that hurt the Jews first end- Nuremberg Trials punished the Nazis |
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