Ms. Ha Ch. 16 Holocaust / WWII

BINGO U.S. History

LETTER / QUESTION / ANSWER
What country did dictator Benito Mussolini control? / Italy
What country did dictator Adolf Hitler become leader of? / Germany
What country did dictator Joseph Stalin become leader of? / Russia or Soviet Union
How many total people died in the German concentration camps?
Number of children? / 11 million total
1.5 million children
Another term for lightening war / Blitzkrieg
Another term for German submarines / U-Boats
Who became Prime Minister of Great Britain? / Winston Churchill
Who was the U.S. President during WWII? / FranklinDelanoRoosevelt
Who signed a nonaggression pact with Germany to only have Germany turn around later and attack them? / Soviet Union
Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor / Appeasement
What was the Holocaust? / Systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe
The first Nazi attack on German Jews was known as Kristallnacht or…. / The night of broken glass
The Nazi targeted this main group for execution.
Roughly how many were killed? / The Jews
7 million
The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population / Genocide
Segregated Jewish areas in certain Polish cities / Ghettos
The Axis Powers were these 3 countries / Germany, Italy, Japan
What did the Tripartite Pact do? / Each Axis power agreed to come to the defense of the others in case of attack
What did the Lend-Lease Act do? / U.S. would lease arms and other supplies to any country who defense was vital to the U.S.
True or False
Anne Frank died in a gas chamber / False.
Died in a concentration camp of illness
Labor camps were also known as… / Concentration camps
Camps with gas chambers could kill ____ thousand people per day / 12,000
This is considered the largest and many people feel the worst concentration camp / Auschwitz
What country was the first target for Hitler to conquer? / Austria
At the end of WWI, what democratic government was set up in Germany? / WeimarRepublic
Who was the British Prime Minister before Winston Churchill? / Neville Chamberlain
What treaty had ended WWI? / Treaty of Versailles
Why were the Germans so intent on getting revenge after WWI? / Take guilt for WWI and
Reparations or retribution $$$$
Who were the RAF / Royal Air Force (British)
Who was known as the “Man of Steel?” / Joseph Stalin
Stalin had a “five year plan” to turn Russia into a super power. What two areas did he focus on? /
  1. Agriculture (farming)
  2. Industry

What was German’s FINAL SOLUTION? / Genocide
What did the NAZI SS stand for / NAZI Security Squadron
List five “inferiors” that Germans believed in /
  1. Political threats
  2. Elderly/crippled/sick
  3. Homosexuals
  4. Gypsies
  5. Jehovah’s Witnesses

Human bodies were burned in these / Crematoriums
When did Hitler start using poison gas to speed up the exterminations? (Year) / 1942
True or False
Children under 15 were hated the most by the Nazi Party / True
Who was the only survivor out of Anne Frank’s annex or hiding place / Her father, Otto Frank
Who was mainly responsible for helping the Franks and other members in the annex for two years? / Meip Geiss
Define nationalism / Love of one’s country above all else
Who took the name, Der Fuhrer-or the Leader / Adolf Hitler
List two reasons why the Nazi’s were able to gain power /
  1. War debt
  2. High unemployment

Hitler replaced the WeimarRepublic with the…. / Third Reich
The Atlantic Charter was between the U.S. and G.B. and did what? / Pledged support to each other