Chapter 28 - WWII 1939-1949 Flashcards
Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, the US, and China
nations allied in opposition against Axis Powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan in World War II
Allied Powers
Coalition headed by Germany, Italy and, Japan that opposed the Allied Powers in World War II
Axis Powers
Lightning war attack in Germany
ferocious attack where by you overwhelm and defeat enemy before they have time to react
highly mobile form of infantry and armor to enemies rear
Blitzkrieg warfare
Important battle of World War II between Allies and Germany
defense and evacuation of British and Allied forces in Europe 1940
Dunkirk
Youngest French general
led Free French forces during World War II
later founded the French Fifth
Republic
served as the first president fight against Nazi Germany
Charles De Gaulle
British prime minister during World War II
one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century
Nobel prize in literature and first person to be made honorary citizen of the United States
courage and decisiveness
Winston Churchill
Authoritarian French government
officially The French State
was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pertain during World War II from the Germany victory in the battle of France to the Allied liberation of 1944
followed Third Republic
Vichy France
Name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom in 1940
Battle of Britain
The Desert Fox
German Field Marshal of World War II
well respected by his troops and enemies
Erwin Rommel
1941 - Pres. Roosevelt signed a bill to give aid to Britain
formally titled An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States - means provide US military aid to foreign nations during World War II
Lend-Lease Act
Surprise military strike conducted by Imperial Japanese Navy against United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, attack led United States to enter into World War II
Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941
Japanese Martial Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of Combined Fleet during World War II
responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor
Yamamoto
Imperial concept created and promoted for occupied Asian populations during the first third of Showa period by the government and military of the Empire of Japan
promoted cultural and economic unity of East Asian race
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
US president 1933-1945
through Great Depression and most of World War II
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of city of Stalingrad in southwestern Soviet Union marked by close-quarter combat and lack of regard of military and civilian casualties
among the most bloodiest battles in history of warfare
Battle of Stalingrad
One of the most important naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II
Japan’s worst naval defeat and 350 years
Battle of Midway
The complex Allied amphibious landings in Normandy France opened a second major European front in World War II
D-Day June 6, 1944 Normandy Invasion
34th president of United States 1953-1961 was a five-star general in the army during World War II and served as supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe
Allied Supreme Commander in Europe that led up to D-Day commanded Allied forces and last great counterattack by Germans in World War II
one of the most important journals of World War II went on to be president
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
Major German offensive campaign launched through densely forested Ardennes region of Walonia in Belgium France and Luxembourg on the Western front towards the end of World War II in Europe
surprise attack caught Allied forces off-guard and became costliest war in terms of casualties for the US whose forces bore brunt of the attack
severely depleted Germany’s war-making resources
Battle of the Bulge
How to organize the world after the war, called to help the allies decide what would happen to Europe, in particular Germany at the end of World War II
Yalta and Postsdam Conferences
American General and Field Marshal of Philippine army who was Chief of Staff of US Army during 1930s
played a prominent role in Pacific theater during World War II
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
The US strategy in the Pacific theater used by MacArthur as means of crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between Islands
Island hopping
Japanese pilots that flew into American warships in effort to sink them
other forms of such as human torpedoes the Japanese used in Pacific
Kamikaze
Research and development projects that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II
Manhattan Project
Atomic bombings of cities in Japan were conducted by the United States during World War II in 1945 in an effort to prevent going to war on land
Hiroshima - Nagasaki
Systematic, bureaucratic state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6 million Jews by Nazi regime; believed Germans were radically superior; Jews were deemed inferior an alien threat to German racial immunity
Holocaust
- war crimes were to try leaders of Empire of Japan for three types of war crimes, trials were less authoritative
- a series of trials of accused Nazi war criminals conducted by the US, French, and Soviet military tribunal based in Nuremberg Germany, fair trial
War Crime Trials (Nuremberg & Tokyo)
Hostile standoff between Soviet Union and United States that began after World War II as Europe was divided into spheres of influence between the two superpowers and the United States vowed to resist the further spread of communism
Cold War
The US policy of containment or limiting communist expansion outlined by Pres. Truman in 1947
Truman Doctrine
Term used by Churchhill to warn that thanks to Soviet policy a formidable de facto barrier was emerging in Europe cutting the Soviet sphere off from the west and threatening the long term division of the continent
Iron Curtain
