Chapter 16 Flashcards
- Between Hitler and Stalin
- No fighting or worries
Non aggression pact
When did World War I start?
9 days after the non aggression pact was signed, because Hitler invaded Poland
Why did France and Britain declare war on Germany?
Because they helped out Poland, who was invaded by Germany
Blitzkrieg
Lightning War
Why do we not like stalin?
The USSR took half of Poland and Baltics and he knew the invasion was goin to happen
Siegfried
Germans
Maginot
France and Britain
Maginot and Siegfied lines in west
Sitting War
Phony War
Denmark and Norway
Quick victories for hitler
What did Hitler take when he surrounded and Isolated France?
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
- Hitler attacked France
- Cornered the French army and pushed them backwards across France
Ardennes Forest
English ships rescue the French Army
Rescue at Dunkirk
Who maid the Vichy government?
Petain (Head of public government in south france)
Leads the Free French Army
de Gaulle
New Prime Minister
Spoke his mind and got his way
Churchill
Battle of Britain
Germany vs. Britain
Wanted to knock out Royal Air force in Battle of Britain
Luftwaffe
How did Britain win the battle of Britain?
Used radar and enigma
British pretended they didn’t care about Hitler bombing them, and went underground
Why did Italy attack Egypt?
They said they’d better do something or Hitler would attack us.
They have the canal which controls trade from Europe to Asia
Why did Hitler help Italy?
Because Egypt was controlled by Britain and Hitler wanted to take down Britain
How did Hitler help Italy?
Send Rommel to help Italy
Who is Rommel?
That is one of HItler’s best generals
Who voluntarily joined the Third Reich?
Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary
Who resisted Hitler but fell in days
Yugoslavia and Greece
Hitler took all the balkans
Hitler’s plan to attack Stalin from the South
Soviets used scorched earth policy
Operation Barbarossa
Battle of Leningrad
Stalin vs. Hitler
Hitler surrounded them, bombed their food
Hitler moved his troops to Moscow, and had the worst winter ever
US Neutrality Acts
FDR convinces Congress to pass Lend Lease Act
Lend Lease Act
Said we can lend or lease weapons to countries, but they had to pay for them and transport them
Why did we start undeclared naval war with Germany?
They shot down an American plane because we were helping the British
Atlantic Charter
- Countries and Nations have the right to free trade
- People should be able to choose the government
- All of these were pointing at Germany
Why did the US stop trading with Japan?
Oil and Scrap Metal
They weren’t doing good things with it
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked Hawaii, unannounced
We declared war with Japan and their allies
Who are on Japan’s side?
Japan Italy and Germany
Doolittle’s Raid
Troop bombed Tokyo for 3 hours
Proved to Japan that they weren’t invincible
Battle of Coral Sea
Fought completely in air
Goal was to stop Japan’s southern progression
Battle of Midway
who led it?
Nimitz led it
turning point in war
Japanese sent everything they had, and came in waves. We still beat them
Who started island hoping?
MacArthur
Battle of Guadalcanal?
Japanese were building a base that would let them invade Australia, so we stopped them
British’s #1 general
Launched a massive attack on Rommel
NO sneakiness
Montgomery
Rommel Sandwich
Operation Torch
Eisenhower coming from Casa Blanca
Montgomery coming from Egypt
Germans vs. Russians Gateway city to east Hitler surrounds and bombs them marching toward moscow to make Russia give up Germans destroyed
Battle of Stalingrad
When Italy doesn’t want to fight anymore, what happens?
King of Italy takes over Rome and arrests mussolini, then Italy surrenders
What happens when Germany took over North Italy?
Brought back Mussolini to take over
Why does Mussolini die?
Italy was going downhill so he tried to high tail it outta there with his fellow Germans, and the Italians found him and killed him
Home front
Total war
women
rationing
prejudice
Internment Camp
time out for Japanese Americans
How did Calais start?
We just got Italy, and we needed to get into Europe and get france because Hitler was in control of it
What was special about this?
Fake army, fake target, it was actually us invading Normandy
Invasion of Normandy
D Day
Patton
Found weak spot in German Defenses
Leader of fake army
Hitler’s last defensive move
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler got Bastogne but Patton came and took it back
What happened to Berlin?
Soviets surrounded them and bombed them, then Hitler committed suicide
Japanese’s last try to win
Largest naval battle
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Pilots drugged up to fly their planes into ships
Kamikazes
Japanese fought hard against us while we were island hopping
Iwo jima
Trying to get as close to Japan as possible
Had to decide whether to invade Japan or not
Okinawa
What happened in New Mexico?
Warned Japanese with the adam bomb and tested it
Where were the bombs dropped?
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
How many died and how many were homeless
60 million dead
50 million homeless
How many people in Europe died?
2/3 (40 mill)
Problems in Europe
Death
People Lost
Systems messed up (transportation etc)
Communist party grew in France
Nuremberg Trials
captured 22 Nazi’s and killed and burned them
Japans probs
Demilitarization Democratization Emperor admittin he was not divine Diet Article 9
Demilitarization
only a small military
democratization
new constitution and a constitutional monarchy
Diet
bicameral legislature
Article 9
Japan cannot declare war
