Ch 16 Flashcards
What is blitzkrieg?
The usage of fast planes and tanks followed by infantry. “Lightning war.”
What’s significant about Poland 1939?
Germany attacks Polish borders using blitzkrieg surprise tactics.
What lesson did the Battle of Britain teach the Allies?
Hitler’s attacks could be blocked
What is significant about Pearl Harbor?
Japanese bombing of US Naval ships and supplies stationed in Hawaii.
Began the Japanese takeover of the pacific.
What Japanese General headed the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Isoroko Yamamoto
What occurred at Auschwitz?
Auschwitz is where hundreds of concentration and extermination camps where located for people deemed lesser than Aryans.
Why was the Battle of Midway so important?
Turned the tide of the war in the Pacific.
American forces hid on Midway Island and ambushed Japanese invaders
When and where did the Battle of the Bulge occur? Significance?
December 16
75 mile stretch inArdennes
Allies fought Germans back after they broke into Allied lines.
Germany retreats because no reinforcements.
Hiroshima and Nagasake
Both of these Japanese cities were directly hit by atomic bombs sent by the US President, Truman.
Drove Japanese to surrender
What three things occurred in post-war Japan? General I’m charge?
MacArthur
- Demilitarization
- Democratization
- Put forth law which made absentee lords sell large amounts of land to gov.
Nuremberg trials: who trailed war criminals, who was tried?
International Military Tribunal representing 23 nations tried 22 Nazi war criminals.
Among those tried were Hitler’s associates and other high-ranking Nazi generals.
Why was D-Day so important?
- One of the argest military attacks in human history
- Marked the beginning of Nazi Germany’s fall
