In: Psychology
Directions: Write three facts regarding the following people, events and terms. Please type your findings.
Totalitarianism =
Fascism =
Nazism =
Blitzkrieg =
Holocaust =
German Invasion of Poland =
Battle of Stalingrad =
D-Day =
Battle of the Bulge =
Hiroshima and Nagasaki =
1. totalitarianism
it is a system where authority in power has no limit in there power.
they can control every aspects of the piblic and private life in any way possible.
in this system govt starts to inerfere in everything, tries to rule over every aspect possible even beyong governmental rule and starts to control over what people even thinks.
2. fascism
after first world was, europe had undergone various political moments. the main perpose of those were establishment of dictatorship. those were named as fascism.
BENITO MUSSOLINI introduced the term fascism in 1919.
it was both political moment and political practice.
as a political moment its intentions were to restore a country thats been damaged by various attackes by enimies, internal as well as external enimies.
as a political practice it supporeted the sophisticated propoganda technique for anti libral, anti socialist etc.
as a political practice
primary goal of fascism as told the fascist government was seft sufficiency of the nation.
3. nazism
nazism is a form of fascism. here movement was based of an idea of aryan race which today called as germanic people.
nazism is short for nationalsozialist that is supporter of national socialist german workers party.
adolf hitler was the leader of nazi germany.
according to him germany's problem happened because jews were making plans to hurt the country.
4.blitzkrieg
it means lightning war, these tactics were used in the german invasions of belgium, netherlands and france in 1940.
paratrooper drops were used significantly in early german blitzkrieg attacks.
german general HEINZ GUDERIAN was an early advicate of armored warfare and using tanks in conjunction with infantry and other units.
5. holo caust
it means holo: whole and caust: burned.
it is used to describe sacrificial offering burned on an alter.
under the cover of world war 2, adolf hitler decided to build a mass killing centers constructed in concentration camps of occuped poland.
apporximately 6 million jew and 5 million others were killed in holo caust on basis of racial, political, ideological reasons.
6. german invasion of poland:
it was the start of world war 2.
blitzkrieg were first time used here. It was germans succesfull surprise attack.
polish saw their contry distruction as there tanks and aircrafts were old and few with respect to german force. this destroyed all hopes of polish army.
after the occupation of poland, the remaining army joined russian on their fight against germany.
7. d-day:
it is coded for day of any invasion or military operation.
it marked the turn of the tide for the control maintained by nazi germany.
over 150000 allies troops were landed on multiple beachheads in france to fight nazi.
after less than a year, the allies formally accepted nazi germany's surrender.
8. battle of the bulge
the battle lasted for 4 weeks, german attack was began at 16 december and completed on 25 january.
adolf hitler was determined to lauch a fresh offensive in an attempt to force the allies to the nagotiation table.
but it was opposed by general since the resources were limited.
german force build up was not detected since allies were focused on offensive preparation. so it became a surprise attack.
9. Battle of Stalingrad :
this campaign was launced by nazis to capture the south west russian cities.
it was the largest single battle of world war 2. total of 2.2 million people took part in total.
at the early stage of battle many bombs were dropped which destryed most part of the city and than followed by long street fighting amid.
10.Hiroshima and Nagasaki
on 6th august 1945 atomic bomb was ropped on hiroshima by US air force.
that was first ever atomic bomb attack which destroyed over 13 sq kilometer area and almost 2 million people died,
than after 3 days another atomic bomb was droped on nagasaki which killed about 70000 to 100000 people.
death rate in hiroshima was high beacuse the bomb was droped at the centre of the city business places and wodden residential structures.
survivors were still sufferig from leukaemia, cataracts tumors etc.