General Flashcards
The German strategic style of fighting, employing fast-moving, massed armored columns supported by airpower.
Blitzkrieg
The French defensive that ran from Switzerland in the south to the Belgian frontier in the north. Failed to stop the German advance.
Maginot Line
Commander of German and Italian forces during the North African campaign. Nicknamed the “Desert Fox.”
Erwin Rommel
Code name for Hitler’s planned invasion of the USSR.
Operation Barbarossa
Japanese General who oversaw the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
Tojo
The two cities destroyed by the atomic bomb
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Japanese suicide missions in which pilots deliberately flew their planes into American warships.
Kamikaze
Japanese Emperor during WWII
Hirohito
The name of the German Airforce
Luftwaffe
Supreme Commander of the Allied armies in Europe
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower
Which country helped Germany invade Poland?
Soviet Union
Who was the US president during the start of WW2
Franklin Roosevelt
Which branch of the armed services was John F Kennedy in
Navy
What caused the USA to enter WWII
Attack on Pearl Harbour
Who was the soviet leader during the war
Joseph Stalin
Whose side was spain on during the war?
Spain was neutral
Whose side was China on in the war
Allies
What did the USA do to Japanese people living in the USA
Sent them to internment camps
What was the name given to German Submarines
U-Boats
US Ordered 150 Million pounds of which food to serve its troops
Spam
What were “jungle fountains” used to serve soldiers with
Coca Cola
What was the only country Germany Officially declared war on?
USA
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor which brand of potato chips changed its name to Jays?
Japps
In what year did Germany open its first concentration camp?
1933
Which event is widely considered to be the beginning of the holocaust
Kristalnacht
What country did Adolf Hitler’s nephew, William Hitler, fight for?
USA
In which year did the last member of the Japanese Imperial army surrendor
1974
What was the Manhattan Project?
The code name for the american project to build an atomic bomb
Which president ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Harry S Truman
What mascot represented the women who went to work in factories to help with the war effort?
Rosie the Riviter
Which was the first commodity rationed in the USA
Sugar
What date did WW2 begin
1 September 1939
Which two countries declared war on Germany after it invaded Poland
Britain and France
Where did the d-day landings take place
Normandy in France
How many Jewish people were murdered during WW2
Between 6 and 11 Million
Who was the leader of China during WW2
Chiang Kai Shek
Which country did not resist Germany and allowed the Nazis to annex it?
Austria
What was ‘the Final Solution’
Hitlers plan to exterminate the Jews
Who was Oskar Schindler?
A German Businessman who helped to save many jews from being executed by employing them in his factories
What was the capital of Germany
Berlin
In what year did the Soviet Union finally declare war on Japan
1945
What term did the British use to describe the nightly ari raids that occured during 1940 and 1941
The Blitz
To prevent German pilots from successfully bombing Great Britain at night, British citizens were required to do what?
Prevent any light from escaping their homes that might be seen by enemy aircraft
What is the nickname of the Allied landings on the Normandy Beaches on June 6, 1944?
d-day
How did Hitler die?
Killed himself
What is considered by many to be the German blunder that turned the tide of the war?
Invading Russia
The eldest daughter of King George VI of Great Britain, served as a driver and mechanic during the war. She, of course, became
Queen Elizabeth 2
