24: World War 2 Flashcards
Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombing, surprise attack that threw US into war against the entire Axis
- American isolationism felling at this event
- American-controlled Phillipine archipelago fell to Japan after Pearl Harbor
- lots of volunteers and ppl were drafted into service
Stimson Doctrine
US responding to Japanese agression in China via this and in appeals to League of Nations
An Ameriacan policy that declared non-recognition of any countries formed by Japanese aggression
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Securing Soviet Army in the East, Germany launching full attack on Western Europe
- a secret agreement signed by Hitler with Soviety Union that coordinated the spplitting of Poland between the two powers and promised nonagression thereafter.
Vichy France
Germany splitting France in half, south of france ruled under a puppet government in Vichy
Battle of Britain
Prevented the planned German invasion of England and saved islands from immediate invasion, prompting new prime minister
- was an air war + bombinbs in the sky
Operation Barbarossa
Invasion of the Soviety Union launched by Hitler in June 1941
- hoped to capture agricultural lands, seize oil fields, and break military threat of Stalin
- largest land invasion in history
Greater East Asia Ci-Prosperity Sphere
Culimated in the preemptive attack on Pearl Harbor
- was Japanese’s empire and made war against European powers and independent nations throughout region
- launching invasions across Pacific to sustain war efforts
Battle of the Atlantic
Us mobilizing Naval forces in Pacific to protect military support to England as a result of the Pearl Harbor - > US declaring war on Japan and Axis on US
Allied Combined Bomber Offensive
Targeted German war effort, at the cost of scores of bombers until long-range fighters were developed to defend bombre convoys
D-Day
The invasion of Normandy by the Allies crossing English channel on June 6, 1944
- largest amphibious assult in history, lots of bombing
