History Test 3 Flashcards
9/1/1939- German troops and tanks roll into to attack ______. Germany came in from west, Russia came in from east. Poland wasn’t ready. All they had was horses and wagons to defend them. Not like the new tech of the germans who had been preparing since ab 1933 when Hitler took over. Their legislature is the Duma with 500 ppl and all 500 have to vote yes to get something passed.
Poland
lightning war. Often seen in WW2
Blitzkreig
Swastika was symbol for the_______ aka Nazi Germany. Usually black circled in red.
The Third Reich
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Evacuation of Dunkirk 6/1940
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1940 France Surrenders (Compiegne)
Blitz is what Churchill called it. He wanted daily war reports but shortened and summarized.
Battle of Britain 8-9/1940
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Ava Braun
is code word from Germany
Operation Barbarossa
The date of Pearl Harbor
12/7/41
_____was the biggest casualty. It was sunk and all of its ppl went down with it bc their rescuers couldn’t get them. For days morse code could be heard from the passengers saying to get them out.
USS Arizona
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Concentration camps
(supposed to be on the fifth but it rained.) is D-Day. It happened in Normandy. Eisenhower was in charge of this. Where is invasion gonna happen?? Very secretive. Code name was Operation Overlord. The fake invasion at Calle was called Fortitude.
6/6/44
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12/44 Battle of Bulge
There are islands on the way but the japanese controlled them. So we’d go in and attack the island we want and take it over. Then we would surround other islands to take them over. This is called
Island Hopping
There are islands on the way but the japanese controlled them. So we’d go in and attack the island we want and take it over. Then we would surround other islands to take them over. This is called island hopping.
Iwo Jima is one of these.
Another is _________
Both of these battles lasted several months a piece.
Guadalcanal
( Admiral Nimitz was over this battle. ) we sent in a fake purple magic message for the Japanese to hear that said we were having difficulties. They then decided to “ambush” us but we ended up ambushing them by setting them up. They lost 4 carriers ( about a couple of hundred airplanes over all dispersed through these carriers.) here at this battle. They were most concerned ab saving the portrait of the emperor instead of saving their men or boats. They saw their emperor as like a god to them.
Battle of Midway
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9/2/45 U.S.S. Missouri
_____were suicide bombers who planes into boats but they weren’t very successful by not sinking boats and being shot down.
Kamikaze
Enola Gay is plane selected to fly to drop bomb on ____ on August 6, 1945. The allies wanted this to make the Japanese unconditionally surrender.
Hiroshima
___is plane selected to fly to drop bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The allies wanted this to make the Japanese unconditionally surrender.
Enola Gay
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Allowed to keep Hirohito
-Back in America comes big ____after WW2. At this time we were getting tvs (leave it to Beaver- where dad went to work and mom stayed home and worked with lots of money- this shows some of the 1950s)and (Happy Days, another TV show), interstates, automobiles.
Baby boom
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Zones of Occupation
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Balance of Power
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Harry S. Truman
____ fires up again in 1954 in Vietnam. War was never officially declared here, it was a Conflict too. The US ended up withdrawing from this war leaving it back to the SOuth Vietnamese who ended up losing. This was the first televised war.
Cold War
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Divided Germany
___ (created in Warsaw) saying that if any communists are attacked the other communists will help them out.
Warsaw Pact
____conflict. US never actually declared war on Korea and it ended in a tie. Macarthur’s solution to Korea was to nuclear bomb it and be done with it but when the communists had pushed the capitalists to almost no room left but Truman said no (and later fired him in Hawaii.) The capitalists were able to push on though with their landing at Inchon and push communists to barely having room left. But then the push evens out and goes back to the 38th Parallel, right where they started.
Korean Conflict 1950-1953
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MASH
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Eisenhower
The truce is finally signed for the Korean Conflict in 1953 at the___ with a DMZ (demilitarized zone) on both sides
38 Parallel
____ of Topeka Kansas changes segregation. Linda Brown wanted to go the white school right across the street from her house. The name of the school was Summer. Supreme Court approves.
1954 Brown v. Board of Ed.
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1956 Uprising in Hungary
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U2 Incident
When Rosa Park wouldn’t give up her seat on the bus what was that called
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
-1959 Castro takes rule over Cuba and puts communist nation 90 miles off our border. It became Communist in 1959. It’s still communist today with more castro’s ruling. But it isn’t as strict anymore. Ppl would try to escape from Cuba back when it was super communist.
In ____ a missile could of hit us in no time to prepare.
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK thing was the New Frontier.- “ASk not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country” and that by the end of the decade that the US would put a man on the moon (we followed through with it on July 1969). He said both of these things in his inaugural address.
New Frontier
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September 1, 1939
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Sitzkeig
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Winston Churchill
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Maginot Line
before US was involved, they leased their leftover 50 destroyers from WW1 to Britain as long as they leased the US some of their naval bases for a dollar for the next 99 years. It was a legal transaction because it was paid for.
Lend Lease Program
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Lebensraum
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Invasion Russia 6/22/41
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Pearl Harbor
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Sabotage
June 6, 1944 (supposed to be on the fifth but it rained.) is D-Day. It happened in Normandy. Eisenhower was in charge of this. Where is invasion gonna happen?? Very secretive. Code name was _______. The fake invasion at Calle was called Fortitude.
Operation Overlord
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“Final Solution”
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Normandy
( victory in europe day is why it’s called ____) the day the war against germany is over (but not against japanese.)
May 7, 1945 VE day
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Atomic Bomb
There are islands on the way but the japanese controlled them. So we’d go in and attack the island we want and take it over. Then we would surround other islands to take them over. This is called island hopping.
____is one of these.
Another is Guadalcanal.
Both of these battles lasted several months a piece.
Iwo Jima
______ is supreme allied commander of pacific.
He chewed a corn cob pipe and his famous quote was “I shall return. “ when he was forced to retreat from the Philippines. After the war, in Hawaii, he and Truman got into an argument to see who would get to land first because who is most important. Truman got to land first because he fired macarthur then and there.
Another famous quote of his “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. “ Meaning they stay famous.
A famous joke of his was he had so much power that hirohito had to ask him to go to the bathroom.
Douglass MacArthur
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Emperor Hirohito
Much of pacific war was____ against USA planes. We knew we had to bomb them but we didn’t have a plane that had enough fuel to get to Japan. So we take islands to make pit stops at
Japanese zero
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Nagasaki
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Brock’s Boxcar