World War 2 Unit
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katelyn8282 on May 24, 2012
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This includes key points from WW2 packet, and the timeline dates that Ms. Saenz had us highlight in class. Terezin you will have to do on your own, but hopefully this is a big help.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The Allies | Britain, France, and the U.S. |
| NAZI | THE RULING gERMAN POLITICAL party during Hitler's time |
| Isolationists | people who wanted to "isolate" the U.S. from war |
| World War 11 | 1939-1945 |
| Fighting occured on____ | six continents |
| The Axis | Germany, Japan, Italy |
| Holocaust | a disaster that wipes out life |
| Hitler sent____ and _____ to concentration camps | jews, gypsies, disabled, homosexuals, political opponents, and anyone who opposed his rule. |
| Hitler killed over ___________ jews | 6 million |
| The Cold War | Between the US. and Soveit union because both were chief world powers and their differences. lasted 40 years. |
| The _________ was formed because of ww2 | United Nations |
| Albert Einstein | Jew born in Germany, but left when hitler came into ower in 1932. 1940 he wrote a letter to president roosevelt to warn that germany might be developing an atomic bomb |
| Manhattan Project | the top-secret atomic bomb research |
| Robert Oppenheimer | led the manhattan project, but became concerned about future uses of the bomb and opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb |
| ______ was divvided into 4 parts after ww2 | Germany |
| Neville Chamberlain | prime minister of britian and tried to make a deal with hitler by giving him czechoslovakia |
| Benito Mussolini | italy's ruler . part of the axis powers with hitler |
| Edouard Daladier | ruler of france . also part of the axis |
| Winston Churchilll | became prime minister of britian after neville and took a strong stance against hitler |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American general in charge of all the allied forces, and also organized 'd day' |
| Adolf Hitler | a psychotic guy. |
| Harry S. Truman | The president that took over after roosevelt died |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | served 2 terms as a u.s. prez and died 3 weeks before germany surrendered. |
| Fall 1925 | Mein Kampf(my struggle), Hitlers autobiography and anti-semitic plan in published |
| October 29, 1929 | "Black Tuesday" The American Stock Market crashes, wiping out the fortunes of investers overnight and starting a worldwide economic depression. |
| January 30, 1933 | Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany |
| February 1933 | Freedom of speech and assembly is suspended by the Nazi government |
| Fall 1935 | The Nuremberg Laws are passed defining Jews as non-citizens and making any marriage between Aryans and Jews illegal |
| August 1, 1936 | The Olympic Games open in Berlin. Anti-semitic signs are removed during the games |
| November 9-10, 1938 | Kristallnacht (night of broken glass), a state-sponsered pogrom (organized assault of a certain group of people) in Germany and Austria. Synagogues and Jewish-woned businesses are looted and destroyes, and 30000 Jews are transported to concentration camps. |
| September 1, 1939 | Germany invades Poland; WW2 begins |
| April and May 1940 | Germany invades Denmark, Norway, tthe Netherlands, France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Jewish children are made to wera the yellow star. |
| December 7, 1941 | Japan attacks the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor. The next day the u.s. enters ww2 |
| March 1942 | Sobibor, Belzec and Auschwitz-Birkenaur all become fully operational death camps, followed by Treblinka in July. (the final solution) |
| June 6, 1944 | The allies invade western Europe (D-Day) |
| May 7, 1945 | Germany surrenders and the war ends in Europe, less thatn two months after Anne's death |
| November 1945 | The Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals begin. |
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