Examen WW2 Flashcards
Miracle at Dunkirk
operation that miraculously rescued the British and French armies!
Blitzkrieg
Was a battle strategy fast and furious
Battle of Britain
Hitler’s plan to invade and conquer Britain! - MUST CONTROL SKY FIRST!
Winston Churchill
new prime minister of Great Britain
RADAR!
New British invention turns the tide of the battle!
Battle of the Atlantic
Longest continuous battle of WWII!
Lebensraum
Living space for German people
Lend - Lease Progam
The USA could lend or lease supplies to any country
Battle of Stalingrad
fought for control over the Russian oil fields.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Admiral of the Japanese navy plans the attack
USS Arizona
Destroyed ships, battleships and airplanes
Nisei
Japanese Americans
Battle of Midway
US defeats the Japanese and stops their planned invasion of Hawaii West Coast
of USA!
Island Hopping
get close enough to launch bombing attacks on Japan
Battle of Guadalcanal
It was the First major island taken from the Japanese!
The holocaust
The systematic mass slaughter of the Jews and other “undesirables”
Heinrich Himmler
were in charge of the Holocaust - Head of the Black Shirts
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
Commander of the European
D - Day
Deliverance Day
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler last offensive of the war!
Eva Braun
Mistress of Hitler - commit suicide
Poland
When Germany attack the country
Douglas McArthur
General de los americanos
battle of Iwo Jima
USA takes the first of the Japanese home islands
