Concentration Camps
How many people died at Buchenwald?
56,000 People
What are internment camps?
A place that people are held. Kind of like a storage unit.
When debating dropping a nuclear bomb, how many people did the US think they would lose in a land invasion?
500,000 to 1 million
Why did Truman become president?
Because FDR died
Who came up with the theory that helped with the formation of the atomic bomb?
Albert Einstein
What does liberation mean?
To give freedom to someone
Who were kept in the internment camps?
What was the date that the US invaded Normandy?
June 6th, 1944
Josef Stalin
What two cities did the US drop bombs on?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What does liquidation mean?
A mass killing (They would kill everyone in the camp)
How many people were brought to Japanese internment camps?
127,000 people
What concentration camps did the US liberate?
Dachau and Buchenwald
Who was the ruler of Italy?
Mussolini
What was the name of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan?
Little Boy
Name three camps located in Poland
Aushwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, and Chelmno
What did Yuri's story critique the United States for?
Constantly putting groups behind walls in America.
Why did the United States enter WWII?
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
Who was the longest ruling emperor of Japan?
Emperor Hirohito
Where did the largest land-water invasion in world history take place? I need city and state.
Normandy, France
What types of camps had the highest death tolls?
At annihilation camps
Why did the United States place Japanese citizens in internment camps?
They thought they were spies
What happened on D-Day?
Allied forces (The US) invaded France
Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito all supported what?
Fascism
Why did the Germans support Hitler's rise to power?
They were impressed with his ideas to restore Germany to greatness