Advanced History (WW2) Flashcards
What were the Germans limited to in the militry
100,000 Infantry
No tanks
No aircraft
5 naval vessels
How did germany manage to train multiple infantry devisions and armoured devisions?
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
What was the fist country to be taken by Nazi Germany?
Austria
Why was the invasion of chekoslovakia so importaint
It showed that Hitler did not keep promosis and that the allied couldn’t stop Hitler from breaking them
Who took part in the invasion of Poland?
Nazi germany and the Soviet union
Why was it bad news when Germany allied with the Soviet Union
This ment that if a war broke out the UK and france couldn’t do much to stop Germany
How did the Nazi devisions and regements push the british out of france so quickly?
They went through the netherlands and belgum and blitzkreged them. The french left the Ardens underdefended and the Germans pushed through there
What happend after the British left france
The French army was left but it slowly failed due to outdated equpment and lack of will power
Why did the UK want to take norway?
Sweeden/Norway was exporting Iron to Germany
Why did the UK fail in taking Norway?
The Germans got there first and used the Airforce to bomb the UK
What did Italy invade in early WW2
They invaded ethiopia and northen africa to gain contoll of the mediterarian sea.
Why didn’t Britain surrender after the fall of France?
They were still traiding with the US and they were getting food and materials
Why was Scappa flow such an Importaint dock?
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
What caused Havock in altlantic that could have caused Britian to surrender
German submarenes were destoying vessles with supplies
What were the 2 german vessels that managed to get to get the atlantic?
Bismark/Prinz Eugen
Even though Bismark was not such a powerful ship why was it a big deal?
If the ship wasn’t sunk it could cuse large chaos in the atlantic as it would be able to sink entire unprotected convoys
What were 2 weapons used againce submarines in WW2?
Dephcharges+Hedgehog racks
Why was it hard to sink enemy submarines?
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
What did the germans do in ocupied countries?
They caused mass murders of diffrent groups of people that they though were “inferrior”
What was one of the groups that the Germans though were “infrerior”
Jews, Communists, Gipsies, Soviets and trans
What caused the USA to join WW1
The 1941 suprise attack on pearl harbour
Why was pearl harbor
The Japanise, without a decleration, bombes the naval base pearl harbour
Why did the Japanise bomb pearl harbour
They feard that the US battleship/carrier fleet would easly destoy theirs so they wanted to destory it ahead of time
Why was pearl harbour a failure?
The japanise didn’t bomb any of the fuel or repear yeards, the US carrier fleet was not present at pear eather
