Name 4 Japanese battles.
Doolittle Raid ‘42, Battle of Midway ‘42, Battle of Tarawa (Marshall Island campaign) ‘43, Philipeans Campaign ‘44-45, Battle of Iwo Jima ‘45, Battle of Okanow
What were the charges against the Nazi war criminals?
(1) crimes against peace (2) crimes against humanity (3) war crimes (4) conspiracy to commit any and all of the crimes
What was the Operation called on D-day?
Operation Overlord
What year did WWII end?
Sep 2, 1945
What were the funnies on D-day?
Specialized tanks the allies built to storm the beaches of France
What are crimes against peace?
"planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation
What were the names of the 2 atom bombs dropped on Japan?
Little Boy and Fat Man
What was the early persecution of the Jews?
suspension of individual freedoms of press, speech, and assembly. German laws forced Jews out of their civil service jobs, university and law court positions,
Name 5 types of Resistance.
non-cooperation, disinformation, and propaganda, to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns Non-violent, armed, espionag
What is a demagogue?
a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.
What happened to the American Economy in 1929?
New York Stock Market Crash and beginning of the great depression.
What year did Japan invade China?
Dec 1937- Jan 1938
What panel of judges in the Nazi war trials called?
A military tribunal
What date was D-day on?
June 6, 1944
Who was the president of the united states during WW2?
Franklin D Roosevelt
Name 4 countries invaded by Japan.
Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Myanmar, Guam, Wake Island
How does an Atom Bomb work? (give one of the ways)
Nuclear fission produces the atomic bomb, a weapon of mass destruction that uses power released by the splitting of atomic nuclei. Nuclear fusion is a reaction
What is total war?
total war, military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory
Who were the three axis powers?
Germany, Italy, Japan
What were the causes of the dust bowl?
Insufficient knowledge of the ecology of the plains, deep plowing, removal of native grass, rapid mechanization of farm equipment, drought, and high winds
Who were the Main Allied Powers?
The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union
What is the generation called that fought in WWII?
GI Generation
What scientist asked the president to develop the atom bomb and why?
Albert Einstein signed the letter. It was written by Leo Szilard
Who was the ruler of Italy?
Mussolini Benito
What ships did the Japanese bomb in Pearl Harbor?
USS Arizona, Oklahoma, West Virginia, California, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Maryland
What were the 2 cities that were hit with atom bombs?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Which generation do you belong to?
Homeland Generation
Name the four things that happen in the Four Turnings Cycle of History?
High, Awakening, Unraveling, Crisis
What title does the state of Israel give the people who saved Jews from the Holocaust?
Righteous Among the Nations- non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis
What happened to Mussolini when he was captured?
He was shot, left in a public square to beat, hung up by feet in the square
What was Operation Market Garden?
Operation Market Garden was the largest airborne operation of the war, with three divisions parachuting on September 17 near Eindhoven, Arnhem, and Nijmegen. Pa
What was the capital of the Republic of China?
Nanjing
Who was the Supreme Commander of all the Allied forces in Europe?
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
What date did the Japanese invade Pearl Harbor?
Dec 7, 1941
What was the Kristallnacht? And what country did it happen in?
Nov 9-10 1938 Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. -Night of Broken Glass
What ships were the Japanese trying to bomb in Pearl Harbor?
United States Pacific fleet- mainly battleships
What country saved the most Jews in Europe?
Denmark
Where did D-day take place?
Five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region.
Name 4 countries Germany invaded in WWII?
Austria ‘38, Czechoslovakia ‘39, Poland ‘39, Denmark ‘40, Luxembourg/Netherlands/Belgium/Norway/France ‘40, Yugoslavia/Greece/Soviet Union ‘41, Monaco/Albania ‘
What are crimes against humanity?
A deliberate act, typically as part of a systematic campaign, that causes human suffering or death on a large scale
Who was on the panel of judges for the Nazi war trial?
A judge from the Soviet Union, America, Great Britain and France
Who was the emperor of Japan?
Emperor Hirohito
What city were the Nazi War criminals tried in?
Nuremberg, Germany
Who was the ruler of China when Japan invaded?
Generalissimo Chiang
What was the Final Solution?
Murder of all European Jews by gassing, shooting, and other means. Six million Jewish men, women, and children were killed during the Holocaust—two-thirds of th
What president decided to drop the atom bomb on Japan?
Harry S Truman
Who was the ruler of Russia?
Joseph Stalin
Who was the Prime minister of Britain?
Winston Churchill
What is a ghetto?
Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. Nazi Germany set up ghettos across oc
Who was the author of the Final Solution?
Heinrich Himmler
What is a concentration camp?
A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small are
What countries were involved in D-day?
United Kingdom, Canada, and the US. Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Poland.
What were the American Beaches in D-day called?
Utah, Omaha
What year did Hitler invade Poland?
1939
What was the Kinder Transport?
What was the Kinder Transport?
Who was the ruler of Germany?
Adolf Hitler
What large mainland country did Japan invade before WWII?
China 1937
What was the Vichy Government?
The puppet government of France after Germany took over
What did the Californians call the migrants from the mid-west?
Okies because they were originally from Oklahoma