Holocaust and End of WWII

Restrictive laws passed by Hitler’s Nazi government that severely limited the rights of Jews in Germany.

• Nuremburg Laws
• Kristallnacht
• Ghettos
• Ultra-nationalism

June 6, 1944—the day of the Normandy landings—initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi Germany.

• V J Day
• V E Day
• D Day

The time period in history in which genocide was performed on the Jewish population in Europe

• Exodus
• Massive Incarciration
• Holocaust
• Jewish Genocide

What was the main purpose of the island-hopping strategy?

• to liberate every island between Hawaii and Japan

• to take over new territories for the United States

• To get close enough to bomb the Japanese home islands

• to cut the Japanese off from their supplies

Near the end of the Second World War, what cities did the United States drop atomic bombs?

• Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima

• Pearl Harbor and Nagasaki

• Niroshima and Hagasaki

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Holocaust refers to ____________

• bombing of Britain
• total war
• the massacre of more than six million Jews.
• the surrender of the Germans.

Which country was divided by the Allies after World War II?

• Austria

• Poland

• Yugoslavia

• Germany

What officially started WWII? 

• The Russian invasion of Finland
• The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor
• The German Invasion of Poland
• The French invasion of Italy

United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain

• Einsatzgruppen

• Axis Powers

• Allied Powers

• Aryan Race

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The systematic destruction of a race, religion, or ethnic group

• Final Solution

• Deportation

• Anti-Semitism

• genocide