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Mein Kampf |
Hitler's work, written in prison, in which he lays out his plans for Germany and for revenge for the defeat of WW1. |
Translates to "My Struggle", a written work. What did it summarize? Why? |
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Lebensraum |
"living space" Germany should dominate the "inferior" peoples of Europe and use their land for food production and increase in territory for the Aryan or master race of Germans. |
Translates to "Living Space". What should Germany do? For what? |
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Rearming of Germany |
Hitler sets out to rebuild the military might of Germany after he becomes Chancellor in 1933. In violation of the Versailles treaty. |
Rearm is similar to rebuilding, but what? What was it's consequence? |
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Geneva Disarmament Conference and League of Nations |
Germany withdraws from both in 1933 |
What significant thing did Germany do here? |
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Rhineland |
An area between Germany, France, and Belgium that prohibited German troops from being stationed. Hitler violated this term of the Versailles treaty in 1936 |
Where was the Rhineland? What was prohibited for Germany? What was the consequence of what Hitler did? |
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Spanish Civil War |
Hitler and Mussolini support the fascist Franco in the conflict. |
Who supported who in the conflict? |
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Rome-Berlin Axis |
Alliance formed in 1936 |
A what formed? |
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Anti-Comintern Pact |
signed by Germany and Japan in 1936, maintaining a common front against the Soviet Union. |
Signed by two countries, maintaining what against whom? |
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Blitzkrieg |
"lightening war" part of the rearmament of Germany. Tanks, armored vehicles, planes for swift attack. |
Translates to "lightening war." A 'rebuild' of who which included three things for the 'rebuild'? |
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Austria |
Hitler forces a union with Austria in 1937, in violation of Versailles Treaty. |
What occurred in Austria in 1937? What was its consequence?
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Czechsolvakia |
Hitler threatens war against this country, which had pacts with France and the Soviet Union. Hitler wanted to control the Suetenland, an area of German speakers living in Czechosolvakia. |
What occurred in Czechsolvakia? What pacts did Czech have? What else did it have and why did it cause an 'issue' for Germany? |
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Munich Conference |
Britain (Chamberlain), France (Deladier), Italy (Mussolini) and Germany meet to discuss the Czech. Crisis in Sept 1938. |
Discussed by three people of three nations over what during Sept 1938? |
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Appeasement |
The policy shown Hitler at Munich to avoid a general war by giving in to Hitler's demands. |
Definition: pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands. With this, what was shown to avoid what by doing what? |
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Poland |
Next country threatened by Hitler, but only after he has secured a Non-aggression Pact with Soviet Union. |
What happened to Poland by Hitler? What did Hitler 'secure' with who? |
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Sept 1, 1939 |
Hitler invades Poland and World War II begins. |
What did Hitler to? What was the consequence? |
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China |
Japan invades China and occupies much of the northern parts of China in 1937.
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In 1937, what happened in China and what did Japan do?
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PROMPT: What caused the 2nd World War in Asia and Europe? |
See daily sheet. |
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New Nazi Empire |
Racial considerations played an important role in how the conquered people were treated. |
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Himmler |
In charge of the resettlement programs, moving "inferior peoples" (Slavic) or racial undesirable (Jews) from conquered lands. And in use of slave labor. |
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Economic exploitation |
Germans controlled the wealth, resources, and cultural heritage of the conquered territory. |
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Foreign workers |
Germans imported many foreigners as laborers into Germany. Most of these were prisoners of war. |
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Charles de Gaulle |
led the Free French movement from London |
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Tito |
led the partisans, a band of guerrillas fighters against the Germans who occupied Yugoslavia. |
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White Rose Movement |
anti-Nazi movement in Munich led by a professor and students. |
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Count von Stauffenberg |
attempted to assassinated Hitler on July 20, 1944. |
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Madagascar Plan |
aspired to the mass shipment of Jews to the island off the coast of Africa, abandoned when the war began. |
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SS |
given responsibility for the Final Solution, the annihilation of the Jewish population of Europe. |
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Einsatzgruppen |
mobile death squads sent to round up and kill Jews in the captured territories, mostly in the Soviet Union. |
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Death Camps |
systematic annihilation of Jews and others in special camps built throughout eastern Europe. |
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Auschwitz Birkenau |
largest and most infamous of the six extermination centers in Poland. |
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Wannsee Conference |
Jan. 20, 1942, Heydrich outlines the steps to “solve the Jews question”, a final solution. Cooperation among Nazi departments for the total extermination of the Jewish population of Europe. |
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Other Holocaust |
Nazi also systematically killed millions of gypsies, ethnic minorities, prisoners of war, mentally ill, handicapped, homosexuals, political prisoners, other undesirables. |
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“Asia for the Asians” |
Japan encouraged independence, under Japanese control, to former European colonies in Asia. |
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Japanese Occupation |
brutal treatment of native populations by the Japanese military, especially in China and in Korea. |
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Cost of WWII |
21 million soldiers, 40 million civilians killed. Greatest losses were sustained by the Soviet Union almost 29 million total. |
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Displaced Persons |
perhaps 30 million people in Europe had been uprooted by the war. |
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Tehran Conference |
Stalin (USSR), Churchill (GB) and Roosevelt (US) met in 1943 to discuss war strategy. Especially the long awaited “second front” in France. |
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Yalta Conference |
again the Big Three meet, this time in the Soviet Union, to plan the end of the war. Especially the issues facing the end of the war in Europe, the participation of the Soviet Union in the war against Japan, the creation of a United Nations, the principle of free elections in Eastern Europe and the unconditional surrender of Germany. |
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Grand alliance |
the victorious allies in WW II. Now chiefly the United States and the Soviet Union. |
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