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29.2 Flashcards

1
Q

What did Germany reveal when they invaded Poland?

A

The enormous power of Hitler’s Blitzkrieg

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What does Blitzkrieg mean?

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Lightning war

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What did Blitzkrieg use on the enemy?

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  • Advances tanks
  • Airpower tech
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What did Luftwaffe bomb?

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  • Air fields
  • Factories
  • Towns
  • Cities
  • Troops
  • Civilians
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5
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What does Luftwaffe mean?

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German air force

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6
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Poland was forced to surrender after…

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German tanks and troops forced in to Poland

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7
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Germans troops attacks from…

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West

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8
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Stalin attacked from…

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East

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9
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What happened a month after stalin and germ invaded?

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Poland was gone

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10
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What did Stalin force Baltic States to create?

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Bases in
- Estonia
- Latvia
-Lithuania

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11
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What is another country the Soviets seized a part of?

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Finland

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12
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What did the invasion of Finland cause?

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Still unsuccessful resistance

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13
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Who hunkered down behind Maginot Line during the first Winter?

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A few… soldiers
- British
- French

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14
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What did a few reporters call the “war” of the people hunkered down behind the Maginot Line?

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The phony war

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15
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What did Hitler launch in 1940?

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Blitzkrieg against Norway and Denmark (both fell soon after)

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16
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After Norway and Denmark fell where did Hitler forces go?

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  • Netherlands
  • Belgium
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17
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What countries did Germ attack in May and how?

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  • Britain and France
  • Attacked through Ardennes Forest in Belgium
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18
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Who trapped retreating British forces?

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  • Nazi Army
  • English Channel
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19
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What did Britain send across the English Channel?

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All available
- Naval vessels
- Merchant ships
- Ect.

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20
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Why was British supplies sent across the channel?

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To get soldiers off the beach and then they landed in Dunkirk and 300,000 british troops were safe

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21
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What did Germany trapping Britain do?

A

Boosted British morale

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22
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What happened while France was headed towards Paris?

A

Italy declared war on France

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23
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When did France surrender to Italy?

A

June 22nd, 1940

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24
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Germany forced france to sign and where…

A

Surrender documents in the same spot that Germ signed armistice after WW1

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25
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Germany took over…

A

Northern France

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26
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What did Germany do with southern france?

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Created a puppet state with Vichy and the capital

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27
Q

What did some French officers do after the take over of France?

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Went to England and created a gov - in - exile

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28
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Who led the gov in exile and what did they do?

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  • Charles de Gaulle
  • They worked to free\liberate the French by using Guerrilla tactics against Germany
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29
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Where did Britain stand alone after the fall of France?

A

Western Europe

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30
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Who replaced Neville Chamberlain as PM?

A

Winston Churchill

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31
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What was Operation Sea Lion?

A

What Hitler called his plan to invade France

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32
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What did Hitler launch against Britain?

A

Huge air strikes

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33
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What did Germany do In August 1940?
(England’s south coast)

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Made daily bombing attacks against England’s South Coast

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34
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What two air forces battled for a month

A
  • Luftwaffe
  • Britain’s royal air force
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35
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After the 1 month air battle how did Hitler switch tactics?

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He started bombing other countries like London

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36
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When was the first bombing on London?

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September 7th 1940

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37
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How long did these bombing attack in London go on for?

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57 straight nights they slowed down but still continued in May

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38
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What were these bombings in London known as?

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The Blitz and most of london was destroyed and many lives were lost

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39
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What did London’s Parliament still do during the bombings?

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They med and civilians kept on with their lives

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40
Q

Civilians went in bunkers at night what did London’s king and queen do?

A

When in the bunkers with the civilians to show support

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41
Q

When did bombings on London continue to?

A

May 1941

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42
Q

What could Hitler not gain?

A

Air superiority

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43
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Was Operation Sea Lion a success?

A

No

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44
Q

What did Mussolini order in September 1940?

A

Forces from Italy’s North African Colony (Libya and Egypt)

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45
Q

What did Britain Repulse?

A

Invaders so Hitler sent his most Brilliant commanders (Erwin
Rommel) to North Africa

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46
Q

What was Rommel know as?

A

The Desert Fox

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47
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What was Rommel’s sting of success timeline?

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1941 - 42

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48
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Where did Rommel push Britain back to?

A

Cairo, Egypt

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49
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Where did Italy invade in October 1940?

A

Greece

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50
Q

What did Germany do because there was stiff resistance from Greece?

A

Sent help again

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51
Q

After Italian victory what two countries were added to the Axis powers?

A
  • Greece
  • Yugoslavia
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52
Q

1941 Axis powers and their allies controlled most of…

A

Europe

53
Q

After German failure in Brit where was Hitlers new target?

A

The Soviet Union

54
Q

What does nullified mean?

A

Made invalid

55
Q

What did Hitler do in June 1941
(n-s pact)

A

Nullified the N - S Pact

56
Q

What did Hitler want to crush?

A

Communism in Europe and defeat Stalin

57
Q

How many soldiers invaded the SU?

A

3 million

58
Q

What did Stalin lose do to Purges

A

Many top officers

59
Q

How many soldiers did the SU lose?

A

2.5 million

60
Q

What did the Soviets destroy just to keep them out of the enemies hands?

A

Their own belongings

61
Q

What “belongings” did the Soviets destroy?

A
  • Factories
  • Farm Equipment
  • Burnt crops
    (Germany was still too strong)
62
Q

What did the Nazi’s want to take in autum?
(2 countries)

A
  • Moscow
  • Leningrad
63
Q

What was Hitler not prepared for?
(season)

A

“General Winter” and the temp dropped to -40 degrees

64
Q

What happened to thousands of German soldiers during “General Winter”

A

They froze to death

65
Q

What started in September 1941?
(siege)

A

2.5 year long siege for Leningrad started

66
Q

What was food rationed to during the winter?

A

2 pieces of bread a day

67
Q

Citizens were so starving that they were willing to eat what?

A

Wallpaper because the paste that glues wallpaper to the wall had potato flour in it

68
Q

Where did stalin beg Brit to open a front?

A

Western Europe

69
Q

What two countries did the Japanese military conquere?

A
  • Asia
  • Pacific
70
Q

What did the “new order” grow out of?

A

Hitlers radical obsessions

71
Q

What did Hitler set up while forces were taking over Europe?

A

A puppet government

72
Q

Who was Hitler puppet government peopled by?

A

Aryans

73
Q

Hitler and his followers believed that Aryans were…

A

The superior race

74
Q

Who was considered the inferior race?

A

Easter slavs

75
Q

Slavs were shoved aside to make room for?

A

Aryans

76
Q

What did Nazi’s see occupied land as?

A

Economic resources to be looted

77
Q

Nazi’s stripped nations of?

A
  • Works of art
  • Factories
  • Other resources
78
Q

What did Nazi’s do to members of resistance movments?

A
  • Shot
  • Tourchered
79
Q

Where did Nazi’s send many Jews in the 1930s?

A

Concentration Camps

80
Q

What were concentration camps?

A

Detention centers for people considered enemies of the state

81
Q

Who did Nazi’s force to be slave laborors?

A
  • Polish
  • Jews
  • Soviets
  • Political opponents
82
Q

How did prisoners die?

A
  • Starved
  • Worked to death
  • Disease
  • Harsh elements
83
Q

Who did Hitler urge people to kill?

A

“Racially inferior” parties mainly European Jews

84
Q

Who were some of the other people Hitler urged others to kill?

A
  • Slavs
  • Romans
  • Homosexuals
  • Disabled
85
Q

Where did Nazi’s force the Jews in Poland to live in 1939?

A

Ghettos

86
Q

What were Ghettos?

A

Sections of cities where Jewish people are confined

87
Q

What did German leaders devise in 1941?

A

A plan for the “Final solution of the Jewish problem” which was the genocide of all European Jews

88
Q

What did Hitler create in poland?

A

6 special death camps that he sent his ‘undesirables” to

89
Q

Who did the camps kill?

A
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children
90
Q

What happened to the men and the women?

A

They were seperated which caused children to be separated from their parents

91
Q

Who were targets of immediate killings?

A
  • Young
  • Elderly
  • Sick
92
Q

Where were some of these murder victims going to be sent to be murdered?

A

“Shower chambers” where they were gassed

93
Q

What were the others who weren’t killed used for?

A

Medical experiments

94
Q

How many Jews were murdered by 1945?

A

6 million (Holocaust)
- 6 million others were killed as well

95
Q

What was happening in the Warsaw ghetto in July 1942

A

Polish Jews were being sent to the Treblinka death camp (5,000 each day)

96
Q

What did Jews do in Spring 1943?

A

They took over Ghettos
- Stole guns
- Created bombs to damage Nazi forces

97
Q

When did Nazi’s regain control of Ghettos?

A

May 16th

98
Q

Who hid Jews and where?

A

Italians in their villages

99
Q

What did Denmark and Bulgaria do?

A

Saves almost all of their Jewish population

100
Q

What did the Vichy gov do?

A

Helped ship thousands of Jews to camps

101
Q

What did the Western Countries do?

A

Sent Jews to camps because of their ban on immigration

102
Q

What did Japan do to help countries “escape the Western colonial rule?”

A

Conquered colonies

103
Q

What was the real reason for Japans help to free countries form WP?

A

Building their empire in Asia

104
Q

Who did Japan treat with brutality?

A
  • Chinese
  • Filipino
  • Malaysians
105
Q

The Japanese killed civilians though…
(parts of a country)

A

East and southeast asia

106
Q

What did Japan do with their new countries?

A
  • Took Food\crops
  • Destroyed cities and towns
  • Made local slave laborers
107
Q

At first Japanese were welcomes as…

A

Liberators and now they were hated

108
Q

Nationalist wage what against japan and where?

A
  • Guerrilla warfare
  • Philippines
  • Indochina
109
Q

What did FDR look for ways around and why?

A

Neutrality acts so he could send ships to britain because they stood alone against Hitler

110
Q

What did FDR do in March 1941?

A

Convinced congress to pass the Lend - Lease Act

111
Q

What did the Lend - Lease Act allow?

A

Roosevelt to sell\lend war materials to “any country who is vital to the defense of the us” but the US wouldn’t join the war

112
Q

The us was the…

A

Arsenal for democracy

113
Q

What did FDR and CH issue in August 1941?

A

Atlantic Charter

114
Q

What did the charter set goals for?

A

The final destruction of the Nazi tryrany

115
Q

What did the Charter promise?

A
  • Support to right of people who choose the form of gov they will all live under
  • Permanent system of General security
116
Q

What did Japan see the war as and what resources did they want?

A

A chance to grab European possessions in Southeast Asia (rich resources)
- Oil
- Rubber
- Tin

117
Q

Where did Japan advance in 1940?

A

French indochina and Dutch east indies

118
Q

How did US try stopping Japan’s aggression?

A

Banning the sale of iron, steel, and oil to Japan

119
Q

What did Japan see US ban on supplies as?

A

A move against Japan’s influence

120
Q

What did Japanese extreme militarists (General Tojo Hideki) hope to do?

A

Expand Japans empire

121
Q

Who was getting in the was of Japans expansion?

A

The US

122
Q

What did General Tojo order?

A

A surprise attack against the US
- December 7th 1941 Japanese airplanes bombed pear harbor

123
Q

How many died at Pearl Harbor?

A

2,400 and ships and aircrafts were destroyed

124
Q

What did FDR ask Congress to do after Pearl Harbor?

A

Declare war on Japan

125
Q

What happened on December 11th?

A

Germany, Italy, Japan declared war on the US

126
Q

What went to Japan after PH?

A

Pacific Possessions 1 by 1

127
Q

What did Japan do after PH?

A
  • Captured Philippines and other US islands
  • Overran British colonies of Hong Kong, Burma, and Malaya
  • Advanced deeper into Dutch east indies and French Indochina
128
Q

By 1942 where was Japan’s empire

A

Southeast Asia to Western Pacific Cost

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