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Goebbels announced the need for Germans to enter a 'Total War', emphasizing the shift towards maximizing production and efficiency in the war effort.
The American military-industrial complex grew from 1.7% of GDP in 1940 to 35% between 1943-1945, reflecting a massive increase in war production capabilities.
Working conditions were harsh, with the suppression of social laws leading to extended work hours (over 12 hours a day, 7 days a week) and exploitation of conquered populations.
The STO was a program initiated in 1943 that requisitioned 1.5 million French workers to support the German war economy.
Approximately 1.5 to 2 million prisoners of war were used in concentration camps to support the German war economy through forced labor.
Extermination methods included mass shootings, starvation, and disease in ghettos, followed by systematic deportations to concentration camps and extermination centers starting in 1942.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest extermination camp, central to the Nazi's mass murder operations, resulting in over 1 million deaths.
The Katioucha was a rocket launcher used by the Soviet Union to deliver devastating barrages on the Eastern Front.
The panzerfaust was an anti-tank weapon designed for easy use by civilians, including children and the elderly, as part of the Volkssturm in 1944.
The V2 missile, developed in 1944, was the first ballistic missile that could not be intercepted by anti-air defenses, causing psychological terror with its speed and range.
The atomic bombings resulted in approximately 70,000 immediate deaths and 140,000 total deaths due to radiation exposure, marking a significant turning point in warfare.
The Einsatzgruppen were mobile killing units responsible for mass shootings and extermination of 'undesirable' populations, including Jews and communists, following the Wehrmacht.
The Babi Yar massacre was one of the largest mass executions, where 33,771 Jews were killed in just 48 hours in September 1941 in Ukraine.
The Einsatzgruppen killed approximately 550,000 people in six months, averaging about 183 civilian deaths per German soldier involved.
Soviet prisoners of war faced severe mistreatment, leading to the deaths of around 2 million due to starvation, exposure, and execution.
After the failure of initial operations, Hitler redirected his forces towards Stalingrad in the summer of 1942, marking a significant shift in military strategy.
The war led to the suspension of social laws in democracies, resulting in increased working hours and exploitation of labor to meet wartime production demands.
The Nazi regime rationalized extermination through systematic planning, including the establishment of ghettos, deportations, and the use of industrial methods for mass murder.
The Manhattan Project was a secret U.S. government research project aimed at developing atomic weapons during World War II, leading to the creation of bombs like Little Boy and Fat Man.
The V2 missile instilled widespread fear and terror among civilians due to its speed and the unpredictability of its strikes, contributing to the psychological warfare of the conflict.