WWII quiz
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- appeasement
- attempting to preserve peace by yielding to the demands of an aggressor
- blitzkrieg
- "lighting war" germans new type of war
- collaborator
- nataves who were willing to become traitors and work for their countries enemy
- luftwaffe
- german airforce
- rommel
- "the desert fox" hitlers general who tried to take over ailfields in middle east
- maquis
- The french resistance
- propaganda
- lies to get an excuse to invade
- Charles De Gaulle
- formed free French government in exilin London
- Radar
- electronic tracking device
- Church hill
- Prime minister of England
- Panzer
- armored german tank
- Holocost
- term used to destribe the nazi attempt tp destroy jewish race my murdering 6 million of them
- atlantic center
- british/U.S. document that stated the war aims of the allies
- D-Day
- June 6th, 1944. day allies invaded europe
- VE- day
- may 8, 1945 germans surrender unconditionally, hitler commits sucide
- montgomery
- N. Africa British general pushes germans under rommel back to the west
- eisenhower
- U.S. general attacks Rommel deom East Tunisia, rommel surrenders
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hitlers strategy for invading
*thought* - start nazi party in the territory, use propaganda/lies to get an excuse to invade
- the countries he used this strategy on
- austria, sudetenland, areas of czechoslovakia
- what made england/france realise hitler was a liar?
- when hitler takes over the "polish corridor"
- what was involved in blitzkrieg warfare
- dive bombers, panzer tanks and armored trucks
- what happened at dunkirk
- allied troops traped at sea with no way out. fishermen and people with boats got troops
- difference between Vichy France and the Free French government
- vichy govt collaborated with hitler. Free french government was exiled in london
- what event made the U.S. decide to enter World WarII
- The attack at pearl harbor
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Describe life during wartime
*thought* - the entire population was mobilized for war,rationing of food and gasoline, women took over mens jobs when they left
- how the entertainlemt/media industries promoted war
- they used propaganda
- what happened in the "battle of britain"
- hitlers attemps to "soften up" England for invasion in 1940
- what hister did to hers in concentration camps
- used for slave labor then murdered them
- how rommel was defeated
- he was attacked from east tunisia and he surrendered
- island hopping
- allies capture some Japanese held islands while leaving others alone but cut off from japanese supply ships
- what happened at yalta
- Stalin, Churchill,and Roosevelt met to plan strategy against Japan
- what happenedat potsdam
- second comference that issued altamadime
- operation overlord
- the invasion of Europe on june 6th 1944 (D-day)
- where was the atomic bomb dropped and what did Japan do?
- Hiroshima and Nagasake, Japan surrendered
- describe in detail what happened when Hitler foolishly tried to keep invading Russia during winter time essay
- Hitler lost over 1 million soldiers. Also the temperature was so cold that lubricating oil froze and jammed guns, it was the first time Hitler had to retreat
- Give 2 reasons advisors uned to urge Truman TO drop the bomb and 2 reasons advisors urged trueman NOT to use the bomb
- The 2 reasons they urged him to drop the bomb were,it would give japan and honerable excuse to surrender, also there werw 1 millions troops ready to defend the homeland. 2 reasons not to were, they said it was immoral and they said japan could be defeated with more conventional warfare
- describe in detail the 2 steps of hitlers "final solution" (including names of camps) and define the word holocost
- 2 steps of final solutin were put jew in concentration camps like dachau, Buchenwald, treblinka and auschwits. Then part 2 is use as slave labor then murder. Holocost was a term used to describe the Nazi attempt to destroy the jewish race by murdering 6 million of them
- operation sealion
- the plan to send ships to invade england and take it over