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Vocabulary
Start of WW1
US vs. Japan
US vs. Germany
The Holocaust
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What is a blackout

equiring inhabitants to minimize outdoor lights.

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What event led to the start of WW2?

Germany attacks Poland

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Why did the US declare war on Japan?

Pearl Harbor

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Why did Germany declare war on the US?

Because allies with Japan

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What is the Holocaust?

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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What is appeasement?

giving in to hostile powers in order to maintain peace

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Why did the US not get involved in WW1 initially?

foreign policy

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How did the US defeat Japan?

Nuclear Bombs

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What weapon did Germany primarily use when attacking the US?

u-boats

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What was the goal of the Holocaust? Who was targeted?

purify germany by killing the jews


  1. People with hereditary diseases were considered harmful. 

  2. people with physical or mental disabilities, as well as alcoholics and 'incorrigible' criminals were killed. 

  3. The “un-pure” were forced to be sterilized and were killed

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What is Fascism?

included a sense of nationalism (a powerful sense of patriotism) and leaders were often dictatorial, ruthless in suppressing opposition, and interested in centralizing power.

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What concepts contributed to the start of WW2?

- Allies/foreign policy

- nationalism

- fascism

300

What weapons did Japan use to commit war crimes against the US?

Balloon bombs & Kamikaze planes

300

List one example of how Germany attacked the US and did they attack on the East or West Coast primarily?

Germany used U-boats to attack the US primarily in the East coast and destroyed 22% of the U.S. tanker fleet



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How did the US directly impact the Holocaust?

War Board Refugee - saved 200,000 Jews

liberated concentration camps

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What was Eugenics?

  • Eugenics is the scientifically inaccurate theory that humans can be improved through selective breeding of populations.
     
  • Eugenicists believed in a prejudiced and incorrect understanding of Mendelian genetics that claimed abstract human qualities (e.g., intelligence and social behaviors) were inherited in a simple fashion. Similarly, they believed complex diseases and disorders were solely the outcome of genetic inheritance.
     
  • The implementation of eugenics practices has caused widespread harm, particularly to populations that are being marginalized.
     
  • Eugenics is not a fringe movement. Starting in the late 1800s, leaders and intellectuals worldwide perpetuated eugenic beliefs and policies based on common racist and xenophobic attitudes. Many of these beliefs and policies still exist in the United States.
     
  • The genomics communities continue to work to scientifically debunk eugenic myths and combat modern-day manifestations of eugenics and scientific racism, particularly as they affect people of color, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.
400

Who was Germany's biggest ally on the axis powers?

Who was US's biggest ally on the Allied powers?

Japan

Brittain/France

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What two instances did the US commit war crimes against Japan?

Nuclear & attacking tokyo with bombs

400

List 2 ways the Germans killed the Jews during the Holocaust. 

gas, hunger, murder

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How did the US indirectly affect the Holocaust?

Eugenics, genocide, slavery, etc. 

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What is mutually assured destruction?

Mutual assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would result in the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.

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Despite US neutrality initially in WW2, when Germany attacked Britain, how did the US help them?

aid - money and supplies

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Before attacking Japan with Nuclear bombs, the US put out a statement. What was a statement? Does this make what they did justifiable?

Warning we are bombing

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How did the US defeat Germany?

put all their force and military into fighting germany

500

name 3 stages of genocide and what event in the Holocaust fits that stage

camps, stars, gas, etc