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Advanced History (WW2) Flashcards

1
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What were the Germans limited to in the militry

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100,000 Infantry
No tanks
No aircraft
5 naval vessels

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How did germany manage to train multiple infantry devisions and armoured devisions?

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They kept swapping out active personal every few months to train them.
They used fake mock up tanks such as using wood to train their armoured devisions, (they also had help from the Soviet Union in making and testing tanks

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What was the fist country to be taken by Nazi Germany?

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Austria

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Why was the invasion of chekoslovakia so importaint

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It showed that Hitler did not keep promosis and that the allied couldn’t stop Hitler from breaking them

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Who took part in the invasion of Poland?

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Nazi germany and the Soviet union

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Why was it bad news when Germany allied with the Soviet Union

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This ment that if a war broke out the UK and france couldn’t do much to stop Germany

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How did the Nazi devisions and regements push the british out of france so quickly?

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They went through the netherlands and belgum and blitzkreged them. The french left the Ardens underdefended and the Germans pushed through there

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What happend after the British left france

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The French army was left but it slowly failed due to outdated equpment and lack of will power

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Why did the UK want to take norway?

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Sweeden/Norway was exporting Iron to Germany

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Why did the UK fail in taking Norway?

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The Germans got there first and used the Airforce to bomb the UK

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What did Italy invade in early WW2

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They invaded ethiopia and northen africa to gain contoll of the mediterarian sea.

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Why didn’t Britain surrender after the fall of France?

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They were still traiding with the US and they were getting food and materials

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Why was Scappa flow such an Importaint dock?

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Scappa flow was strategicly importaint as when it was ocupied it could be used as a base to be used a naval barricade to stop german warships from entering the atlantic

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What caused Havock in altlantic that could have caused Britian to surrender

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German submarenes were destoying vessles with supplies

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What were the 2 german vessels that managed to get to get the atlantic?

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Bismark/Prinz Eugen

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Even though Bismark was not such a powerful ship why was it a big deal?

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If the ship wasn’t sunk it could cuse large chaos in the atlantic as it would be able to sink entire unprotected convoys

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17
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What were 2 weapons used againce submarines in WW2?

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Dephcharges+Hedgehog racks

18
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Why was it hard to sink enemy submarines?

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They would useually use “wolf pack tatics” where the launch multipule torpedoes from diffrent angles making it difficult to evade the torpedoes and to find where they came from

19
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What did the germans do in ocupied countries?

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They caused mass murders of diffrent groups of people that they though were “inferrior”

20
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What was one of the groups that the Germans though were “infrerior”

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Jews, Communists, Gipsies, Soviets and trans

21
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What caused the USA to join WW1

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The 1941 suprise attack on pearl harbour

22
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Why was pearl harbor

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The Japanise, without a decleration, bombes the naval base pearl harbour

23
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Why did the Japanise bomb pearl harbour

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They feard that the US battleship/carrier fleet would easly destoy theirs so they wanted to destory it ahead of time

24
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Why was pearl harbour a failure?

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The japanise didn’t bomb any of the fuel or repear yeards, the US carrier fleet was not present at pear eather

25
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What was the battle of Midway

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The japanese wanted to invade and controll midway but failed due to their admral being a bit of an idiot

26
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Why did midway fail?

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All 4 Jap carrier were and no landins on midway could take place without nutralising island

27
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How did the Americans sucseed so well in Midway?

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They had information thay the Japs were going to attack and when so they lunched their carrier fleet North to catch them off gaurd and bombed when the carriers were servacing the aircraft for another attack on midway

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What was the Doolittle raid?

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It was a raid where 16 US army bombers lanuch from an aircraft carrier (Hornet) to bomb Tokyo after pearl harbour. They sucseeded and manage to bomb a Jap ship being built in a dockyard which destoryed it.

29
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Why was the Doolittle raid such an importaint victory?

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Even though 1 air crew made it back it boosted the Moral of all Americans and it proved to the Japanise there wernt so invicable

30
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Why was Iwo Jima so importaint?

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It would alow US B29s to reach and bomb the Japanise mainland wich would lower Japanise moral

31
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Why did the Naval barrage on Iwo Jima not work?

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It didn’t work because it was only a 3 day instead of a 7 day barrage. They also couldn’t fly spotter aircraft as the conditions were overcase or zero at some times and also the Japs had allready prepared and were in defensive fortifications.

32
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How were submariens in at atlantic combated?

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Aircraft with longer ranges and better anti submarine warfair such as better sonar and headhog racks

33
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Why were air bases built in northen australia?

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It would allow the allies to use them to bomb the Japs in indonesia and papa new guine

34
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Why was the solimon air sea battle an importaint victory?

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It ensured that new newest Jap aircraft carrier was destoyed and the American now had the air advantage

35
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Why were Aircraft carriers so importaint in WW2?

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They were able to act as moblie air cases in the oaceans and coast

36
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Why did operation D day take place?

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Pressure from Stalin in the Terrhan confrace made the allies open up a second frount in europe

37
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Why did the italians surrender when the americans invaded?

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Many Italians had migrated to the US before the war meaning they were coming back home and the didnt want to fight

38
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What caused the naval bombardment on D day to fail?

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The captains were to scared to come closer to the shore as they feared mines or sandbanks

39
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Why were the scattered paratroopers on D day such a good failure?

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Since they were scattered everywhere the germans couldn’t really counter attack because they were everywhere. The paratroopers could still rally and ambush and suult their objectives whilst the germans didn’t know what was going on

40
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Why were bridges in normady so importaint to controll?

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It would stop panzer devisions from reaching the beach head

41
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Why was the russian naval fleet weak in WW2?

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They had no prior experiance of naval combat and they didn’t have a large cosstline anywhere

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