World War 2 Study Guide – Flashcards
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What did Hitler violate when he expanded the military and militarizing RHineland?
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Treaty of Versailles
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Where did Hitler militarize?
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Rhineland
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Great Britain employed a policy of what?
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appeasement
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What did Germany and Japan sign that promised a united front against communism?
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Anti-Comintern PAct
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At what conference was an agreement reached that allowed German troops to occupy Sudetenland?
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Munich COnference
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WHo declared war on Germany after the nation signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union?
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Britain and France
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What Japanese seizure led the League of Nations to investigate?
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Manchuria
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What were the Japanese attacks against China including a massacre called?
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Rape of Nanjing
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Who did Japan look to for Natural resources that risked angering the US?
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South Asia
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Who decided to drop a surprise attack on the US and European colonies in Southeast Asia?
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Japan
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How did expansion pave the way for WW2?
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Adolf Hitler began taking over neighboring countries. Britain and France didn't stop him because they didn't want another war to start. BUt they ended up declaring war because Germany invaded Poland after they signed a non aggression pact. Japan took over Manchuria and it risked war with European powers.
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How did Hitler win his early victories?
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Blitzkrieg
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What factors hindered Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union?
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The problems in the Balkan states delayed the attack. The harsh winter also slowed the Germans because they were unprepared.
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How did Japan bring the US into the war?
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They attacked the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor
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Who led Japan in its attack on the Pacific?
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Prime Minister Hideki Tojo
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What victories lent optimism to German troops in early 1942?
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IN north Africa, German forces broke through british defenses. They also captures Crimea and Ukraine.
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What events caused the tide of war to turn against Germany?
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Allies invaded French North AFrica at El almaine. Soviets also launched a counterattack that stopped German troops and their supplies to stalingrad
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What events caused the tide to turn in Japan?
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the battle of coral sea and the battle of midway
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how did world war 2 progress in Europe and in the pacific between 1939 and 1943?
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blitzkrieg, air attakcs, pearl harbor, turning point
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how did world war 2 affect civilians in the soviet union?
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they were starving, women and girls' roles also increased through industry jobs
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what kinds of social turmoil resulted from the war effort in the us?
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contruction of new factories created boomtowns, many people all over the country travelled for work, house and school shortages, racial tensions
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how did Germany react to the increased demand for weapon?
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at first HIter refused but then when America entered, they needed more
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who oversaw the weapon effort?
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albert Speer
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when and where did people experience the first use of civilian bombings?
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early 1940s in London
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how were children affected by ww2?
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They were moved around a lot. Some were sent away to the US or protective camps. Jewish children mostly died.
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What were the results of the Dresden bombing?
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It created a fire storm that killed as many as 35000 people and many buildings
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Why did President Truman decide to drop atomic bombs on Japanese cities in august 1945?
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He feared high US casualties and he wanted the war to end quickly
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who implemented Hitler's resettlement plan?
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heinrich Himmler
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What use of laborers did Germany use?
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forced
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What was Hitler's master race?
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Aryans
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Who implemented the Final Solution?
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Einsatzgruppen
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What were Auschwitz and five others called in Poland where Jewish prisoners were subjected to hard labors, cruel medical experiments, and gas chambers?
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death camps
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What in Hebrew meant total destruction?
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SHoah
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Japan conquered South asia using this slogan, but its severe policies caused nationalists to sabotage its administration?
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Asia for ASiatics
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WHo stole Vietnam's rice and caused them to starve?
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Japan
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How did Germany seek to impose a new world order?
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death camps, ridding of jews, forced labor
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How did Japan seek to impose a new world order?
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army recruits, forced labor, prisoners of war
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What day is D- Day?
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June 6 1944
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Under what General did D-Day happen?
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Eisenhower
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Allied troops had liberated where by august 1944?
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Paris France
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WHo defeated German forces in the Battle of Kursk?
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Soviets
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WHat island was essential to the air war?
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Iwo Jima
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What island provided the Allies with a base near the mainland?
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Okinawa
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Who committed suicide on April 30 1945
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Adolf Hitler
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When did the Germany surrender?
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May 7 1945
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When did war in the pacific end?
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August 14 1945
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WHo wanted to create a Soviet-friendly governments as a buffer zone btween the soviet union and the western fronts?
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ussr
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Germany was divided into four zones controlled by who?
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United States, Britain, France, and Soviet Union
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The Grand Alliance agreed to hold these?
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Nuremberg war crime trials
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What did Churchill claim had descended across Europe?
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and iron curtain
