Access Powers & The Allies
What countries formed the access powers?
Italy, Germany, and Japan
How do you win a war?
By winning it quickly by shock and awe, doing so by ruthlessly spreading panic through mass destruction and death in order to kill the enemy's morale.
What was a female-dominated technological job during the war?
computing
Who were the worlds two biggest superpowers after WW2?
What did the Jewish Council make to try and save Jews?
Create fake I.D.s
What country founded the allies?
Britain
The Maginot Line
Who broke the Enigma Code?
Alan Turing
What did the US create to gain allies by giving handouts to other nations?
The Marshall Plan
What did several of Hedda's family members experience?
mental health issues (manic behavior, depression, and suicide)
Why were they called the access powers?
Because of the Access Pact of 1936
Who was Britain's prime minister at the start of WW2?
Winston Churchill
What technology did the US use on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
the atomic bomb
What war followed WW2?
The Cold War, 1945
What was one way the Germans kept the Holocaust hidden from citizens?
They created a system of organization that played on the German citizens trust to follow German rules
What countries were quickly occupied by Germany and had citizens collaborating with the Germans?
Belgium and the Netherlands
What was Hitlers tactic to defeat Britain that has to do with food supply?
Starving them by sinking their ships
what were the machines that helped send secret messages across allies?
complex cipher machines
What nation was created because of WW2?
Israel
What was a concern for Hedda's family at the beginning of the war?