Chapter 16 Flashcards
WWI starts…
9 days after the non-agression pact is signed
Non-agression pact
signed by Soviet Union and Germ
NO fighting against each other
SU was facist and Germ was communist..not a good mix
blitzkrieg
means “lightning war” moved tons of troops across border and aerial attack to intimidate and scare you
who started the war? Where? and How?
HItler invaded Poland and it was a blitzkrieg
WHO DOES POLAND ASK FOR HELP? WHAT DO THEY SAY?
FR AND BR
NOT PREPARED
POLAND QUICKLY FALLS TO THE GERMANS
USSR TOOK WHAT AND HITLER TOOK WHAT AFTER THEY BEAT POLAND
EACH TOOK HALF OF POLAND AND THE BALTICS
THIS WAS BECAUSE OF THE SECRET PARTOF THE NONAGRESSION PACT
WHAT WERE THE LINES CALLED THAT THE FR &BR AND GERMANS WERE SITTING ON
MAGINOT-FR AND BR
SIEGFRIED-GERMAN
WHAT WAS THE PART OF WWII THAT THEY JUST SAT THERE AND STARED AT EACH OTHER CALLED
THE “SITTING WAR” OR THE “PHONY WAR”
AFTER POLAND, HITLER ATTACKS….
DENMARK AND NORWAY
LATER, HITLER TAKES…
NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, AND LUXEMBOURG
ARDENNES FOREST
HITLER WENT THROUGH THIS TO ATTACK FRANCE
RESCUE AT DUNKIRK
BR HELP SINCE THE FR ARE STUCK
TONS OF SHIPS
WHO SURRENDERED AFTER HITLER INVADED FRANCE
FRANCE
PETAIN
HEAD OF PUPPET GOV’T IN SOUTH FRANCE CALLED THE VICHY GOVERNMENT
CHARLES DE GAULLE
SET UP A FR GOV’T IN EXILE. ALSO SET UP THE FREE FRENCH ARMY IN BR
WINSTON CHURCHILL
NEW BR PRIME MINISTER. NO NONSENSE KIND OF MAN THAT THEY NEEDED
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
LUFTWAFFE IS SUPPOSED TO KNOCK OUT THE RAF(ROYAL AIR FORCE) THEN LAUNCH A MASSIVE GROUND INVASION
LASTED LONGER THAN IT WAS SUPPOSED TO B/C OF RADAR AND ENIGMA: THEY DECODED ALL GERMAN PLANS AND MESSAGES
AFTER THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN LASTED SO LONG AND WASN’T WORKING FOR THE GERMANS, HITLER SAID TO..
LET THE LUFTWAFFE BOMB THE BR CIVILIANS AND THEN HE LIMITED IT TO JUST AT NIGHT
HOW DID THE BR REACT TO THE NIGHT BOMBINGS
EVERYONE JUST SLEPT UNDERGROUND AND NO ONE COULD LIGHT ANYTHING AFTER DUSK SO THAT THE PLANES COULDNT FIND THE CITIES
HITLER GOT FRUSTRATED BECAUSE…
THE BRITISH WERE TOO SMART AND GOT AROUND EVERY ONE OF HIS PLANS
HOW LONG DID THESE BOMBINGS LAST
JUNE TO MAY
WHAT DID ITALY ATTACK AND WHY
EGYPT-BR COLONY
IT HAS THE SUEZ CANAL
IF YOU HAVE CONTROL OF THIS, YOU CAN CONTROL THE TRADE TO ASIA
ASIA IS RICH IN OIL
WHO IS SENT WHEN THE EGYPTIANS STARTED LOSING
GENERAL ROMMEL
WHO JOINS THE AXIS POWERS(THIRD REICH) WILLINGLY
BULGARIA, ROMANIA, AND HUNGARY
WHO RESISTED HITLER BUT EVENTUALLY FELL
YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE
OPERATION BARBAROSSA
HITLERS PLAN TO ATTACK THE USSR
GO THROUGH THE BALKANS. USE BLITZKRIEG
THE SOVIETS USE SCORCHED-EARTH POLICY AGAIN
BATTLE OF LENINGRAD
HITLER SURROUNDS IT, BOMBS FOOD SUPPLIES
PEOPLE SUFFER TERRIBLY AND DID NOT GIVE UP
NEXT THEY TRIED TO MARCH ON..
MOSCOW AND IT TURNED WINTER AND IT WAS REALLY COLD AND MANY GERMANS DIED
FDR CONVINCES CONGRESS TO PASS THE
LEND LEASE ACT
LEND LEASE ACT
SAID WE WOULD GIVE WEAPONS TO WHOEVER WE WANT TO BUT IT’S ON A CASH AND CARRY BASIS. BR TRADED HEAVILY WITH US
WHAT MADE THE GERMANS MAD ABOUT THE US-BR RELATIONSHIP
THE US WAS ESCORTING BR CARGO SHIPS
WHAT DID THE GERMANS DO SINCE THEY WERE MAD AT THE US
SHOT DOWN AN AMERICAN SHIP AND FDR TOLD THE NAVY THEY HAD PERMISSION TO SHOOT DOWN ANY GERMAN SHIPS THEY SEE. WE ARE AT UNDECLARED NAVAL WAR WITH GERMANY.
ATLANTIC CHARTER
FDR AND CHURCHILL WROTE AND SIGNED THIS
1. COUNTRIES HAVE RIGHT TO FREE TRADE
2. PEOPLE IN A COUNTRY SHOULD CHOOSE THE GOV’T
BASIS OF OUR PEACE TREATY THAT ENDS WWII
JAPAN STARTED TO..
ADVANCE CLOSER TO THE EURO COLONIES
THE US TRADED WHAT WITH JAPAN AND THEN..
SCRAP METAL, ETC. AND THEN WE STOPPED TRADING SCRAP METAL AND OIL WITH THEM
WHY DID THE US STOP TRADING WITH JAPAN?
WE DIDNT LIKE WHAT THEY WERE DOING WITH THE STUFF WE TRADED THEM
PEARL HARBOR
JAPAN ATTACKS US, CONGRESS DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN, GERMANY, AND ITALY
EAST ASIA FOR ASIATICS
JAPAN WANTED THESE PEOPLE TO FOLLOW THEM(TREATING THEM LIKE COLONIES) THEY WANT AN EAST-ASIA FOR THE JAPANESE
THEY WANT TO KICK OUT THE EUROPEANS IN ASIA
DOOLITTLE’S RAID
US HIT TOKYO, PROVE TO THE JAPANESE THAT THEY WERE INVINCIBLE AND FOR REVENGE
BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA
FOUGHT IN THE AIR
1ST TIME COMPLETELY IN AIR
JAPS WON
UA GOAL ACCOMPLISHED WHICH WAS TO STOP JAPAN SOUTHERN TAKEOVER OR FROM GOING FARTHER SOUTH
BATTLE OF MIDWAY
JAPAN HIT US HARD AND GOT US OUT OF THE WAR
JAPAN SENT EVERYTHING THEY HAD
AMERICAN LEADER AT MIDWAY
NIMITZ
US KILLED JAPANESE AT…
THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
MACARTHUR
COMES UP WITH ISLAND HOPPING-SKIPPING ISLANDS THAT ARE HEAVILY ARMED THEN GET CLOSE ENOUGH TO JAPAN TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON THEM
BATTLE OF GUADAL CANAL
US ATTACK TO SET THE GUADAL CANAL
US WON
ISLAND-HOPPING WORKS AND JAPAN RETREATS
BEN MONTGOMERY
BR GOES TO AFRICA
ALLIES COME UP WITH A PLAN CALLED
OPERATION TORCH
WHAT ID OPERATION TORCH
LANDGENERAL EISENHOWER IN CASABLANCA AND MOVE HIM THROUGH AFRICA (ROMMEL SANDWHICH)
ALLIES GET CONTROL OF
NORTH AMERICA
BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
SOVIET UNIONO VS. GERM
GATEWAY TO THE EAST
CONTROLLING STALINGRAD WOULD WE GOOD FOR HITLER
HE SURROUNDS CITY AND BOMBS IT
STALIN WAS TIRED AND HE WANTED HIS FRIENDS TO…
ATTACK FRANCE
FDR AND CHURCHILL WEREN’T READY FOR THIS SO THEY ATTACKED ITALY FIRST
THEY CAPTURE SICILY AND IT ONLY TAKES 15 DAYS FOR IT TO SURRENDER
BUT LITTLE DID THEY KNOW…
HITLER SENDS TROOPS TO N ITALY THEY PUT MUSSOLINI BACK IN POWER
ALLIES TAKE ROME
ITALIAN ARMY CAUGHT MUSSOLINI AND SHOT HIM AND HUNG HIM UPSIDE DOWN FOR ALL OF MILAN TO SEE.
HOME FRONT
TOTAL WAR, WOMEN, RATIONING, PREJUDICE-INTERNMENT CAMPS (JAPS FORCED TO WORK, MOSTLY ON FAMRS, THEN WERE LET LOOSE WITH NOTHING)
THE ALLIES SET UP A… TO TRICK HITLER
FAKE ARMY WITH A FAKE LOCATION( CALAIS)
D-DAY
OPERATION OVERLORD
JUNE 6, 1944
BIGGEST GROUND AND AIR INVASION EVER
PATTON
FOUND A WEAK SPOT IN GERMAN DEFENSES AND MADE IT TO PARIS BY AUGUST AND BY SEPTEMBER FR, BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
LAST DITCH EFFORT TO TURN THE WAR BACK IN HIS FAVOR
HE CREATED A BULGE BUT NEVER BROKE THE LINE OF SOLDIERS
GERM SURRENDERS AND BY APRIL BERLIN IS SURROUNDED AND BOMBED
WHAT HAPPENED THAT KIND OF UNOFFICIALLY ENDED THE WAR
HITLER AND WIFE KILL THEMSELVES
BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF
LAST DITCH EFFORT TO TURN WAR AROUND FOR JAPANESE
USED KAMIKAZEES-CRASH PLANES INTO US SHIPS
BATTLE OF IWO JIMA
IWO JIMA NOT FAR FROM JAPAN-FOUGHT TO KEEP IT AND AM FOUGHT TO GET IT
US WON
BATTLE OF OKINAWA
EVEN A LITTLE CLOSER TO JAPAN THAN IWO JIMA. THAT MUCH MORE IMPORTANT.
US WON
THE QUESTION NOW IS…
DO WE FIGHT JAPAN?
NOW FDR IS DEAD AND WE HAVE…
TRUMAN
WHERE IS THE ATOM BOMB TESTED BY AM
NEW MEXICO
THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB IS DROPPED ON
HIROSHIMA KILLED LOTS AND JAPAN STILL DID NOT SURRENDER
THE SECOND ATOMIC BOMB IS DROPPED ON
NAGASAKI WE ONLY HAD 2 BOMBS. JAPAN SURRENDERED
THIS WAR WAS THE MOST
DESTRUCTIVE AND DEADLY WAR EVER
HOW MANY DEAD? HOW MANY HOMELESS?
60 MILLION-50 MILLION
EUROPE
40 MILLION DEAD-2/3 OF CIVILIANS, CITIES IN RUBBLE
PEOPLE WERE LOST-CONCENTRATION CAMP VICS, POWS, REFUGEES
AGRICULTURE COMPLETELY DISRUPTED, TRANSP. SYSTEM DESTROYED-FAMINE, LACK OF COATS, SHOES, ETC.
COMMUNIST PARTY GREW IN FRANCE, ITALY THEN DECLINE
NUREMBERG TRIALS-22 NAZIS
JAPAN
DEMILITARIZATION-DEMOCRATIZATION-LAND, RIGHTS
EMPEROR NOT DIVINE, DIET, ARTICLE 9-JAPAN CANNOT WAGE WAR
