Chapter 6 part 2
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
UN Trusteeship Council scrutiny | True |
US newspapers ignored Nazi persecution | False |
Einsatzgruppen initial targets claim | False |
Development of Nazi genocide | A gradual chain—prejudice → discriminatory law → propaganda → state violence → industrial murder—unfolded over years |
Atlantic Charter promises | True |
Holocaust bureaucracy example | Railways |
Eisenhower June 6 decision | A brief weather window aligning moonlight with low tide despite recent storms |
Wannsee Conference truth | True |
Nuremberg legal shift | Leaders could be tried for aggressive war and crimes against civilians |
Poster purpose | Women to serve in the military |
Eisenhower Berlin decision | Knowledge it would fall in the Soviet zone and cost huge Allied lives |
Ghettos permanent claim | False |
Use it up wear it out slogan | Promoting self‑sufficiency and rationing |
UN veto power reason | To keep the strongest states inside the system |
Omaha Beach resistance claim | False |
Night at the Garden meaning | Extremist movements can cloak themselves in patriotic symbols yet still face resistance |
Normandy chosen because | Was less fortified while deception fixed German attention on Calais |
Potsdam outcome | Reparations taken mainly from each occupier’s zone |
Final Solution conversion claim | False |
Ghost Army function | Broadcasting fake radio traffic and staging inflatable armor |
Kamikaze attacks at Okinawa | True |
Yalta elections meaning | False |
Kristallnacht escalation | State‑directed pogrom burning synagogues smashing businesses sending thousands to camps |
Britain vs US bombing claim | False |
Camp system description | Different camp types formed a coordinated system |
Executive Order 9066 result | Families of Japanese descent relocated to internment camps |
Aircraft production 1940–42 | Increase in industrial production after the Great Depression |
Early Nazi shift example | Boycott → civil‑service purges & Nuremberg racial definitions |
Native American servicemen | code talkers |
Wannsee primary function | Coordinate bureaucratic logistics for the Final Solution |
Japanese American citizenship fact | True |
Mass murder shift 1941–42 | Einsatzgruppen shootings + Wannsee coordination |
Battle of the Bulge fact | True |
Operation Downfall invasions | True |
Poland casualty pattern | Nazi death camps in Poland caused high civilian casualties |
Rosie the Riveter meaning | Women could contribute equally in industrial labor |
Plan formalized at Wannsee | Wannsee Conference |
War Production Board focus claim | False |
US government encouraged purchase of | war bonds |
US rescue action late war | Creation of the War Refugee Board (1944) |
Bretton Woods difference | Built permanent institutions (IMF World Bank) |
Employment Act 1946 | True |
Extermination camps location | True |
Hitler between tanks cartoon timing | German invasion of the Soviet Union |
League of Nations actions meaning | Criticized aggression but took no effective action |
African American campaign | Double V |
Post‑WWII reconversion claim | False |
US rescue action repeated | Creation of the War Refugee Board (1944) |
Mobile killing squads | Einsatzgruppen |
Zimmerman Telegram claim | False |
Detroit racial tensions cause | African Americans migrated to industrial centers for defense jobs |
Late 1930s extremist imagery | True |
Why US became system core | Industry food output transport and finance enabled global supply |
Operation Overlord purpose | Open a Western Front with Soviet pressure to crush Germany |
Operation Fortitude purpose | True |