World Leaders
Rose to power in Germany during the 1920s and 30s
Adolph Hitler
German phrase for: Living space for the superior “Master Race”
Lebensraum
the event that makes the US join WWII
Pearl Harbor
Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of _____
Great Britain
____% of the Jewish population was killed in the Holocaust.
90
Fascist Italian dictator
The phrase for the following idea: people that were racially similar to Germans would be "absorbed" into German nation after being reeducated and racially purged
Germanization
June 6, 1944; American, British, Canadian Troops land in t he coast of Normandy; largest battle in military history
D-Day
The invasion of ________ (country) pushed the Western allies to declare war against Germany.
Poland
the amount of unemployed Germans in 1932
6,000,000
President of US when Pearl Harbor was attacked
Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR)
The German phrase for "Lightning warfare" (an intense military campaign supported by airpower to bring swift victory)
Blitzkrieg
August-September 1914: Germany attacks airfields and fighter planes in Southeastern England and then switches to London (bombs every night). 15,000 British killed.
The Battle of Britain
Iran
the estimated combined deaths (military and civilian) in WWII
30 million (+40 million more for indirect deaths)
Leader of Communist Russia
Stalin
German phrase for "the German people"
The Volk
The last German offensive on the Western Front was called ___________________________ because the German army was able to push forward into Allied ranks -- but the Allies ultimately prevailed.
Battle of the Bulge
Two pre-war instances in which the League of Nations failed to intervene when they should have
Japan invading China (Manchuria) and Italy invading Ethiopia
The weakness in Weimar Republic's Constitution that allowed Hitler to gain power
Article 48
Which countries negotiated the peace treaties at the end of WWII?
German phrase for "phony war"
Sitzkrieg
The two cities destroyed by the atomic bomb
Postdam, the last war conference, decides to do what to punish Germany?
Divide Germany into occupation zones -- would remain divided until 1990
The war in Europe ends on ______. (date), after the capture of Berlin.
May 8, 1945