Lesson 4: Events and End of World War 2 Flashcards
Hitler demanded two things from Europe
Lebensraum, and Appeasement.
is a german word that means “Living Space”. Hitler demanded to re-acquire territories that they have lost during World War 1 as an effect of the treaty of Versailles.
Lebensraum
Though should not be, the League of Nations and Europe allowed the annexing of the German realm in:
Austria
Rhineland
Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
is giving someone something to make them happy and leaving you alone.
Appeasement
Exactly what Great Britain ( ) did through Appeasement that gave Sudetenland to Hitler.
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
League of Nations failed to do anything. It is with appeasement that showed Hitler that he
could do whatever he wanted.
To secure peace with a possible threat, Germany signed a peace treaty with USSR, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
It is a Non- Aggression pact between Germany and Russia signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939.
After acquiring all that he needs, on 4:45 in the morning of
September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland.
Great Britain and France requested German troops to leave Poland but they did not leave. Great Britain and France declared war against (_________) starting the Second World War
Germany
Theaters or major battlefronts, World War II had two primary theatres:
The European Theatre and the Pacific Theatre.
is participated by Great Britain and France versus Germany and Italy.
The European Theater
The Germans utilized the (_________) as a military doctrine with the element of speed and surprise so that the rival would not have time to prepare.
“Blitzkrieg” policy, or lightning war
This had been very effective in that France surrendered to the German blitzkrieg after
6 weeks from May 10 – June 22, 1940
This made (______) the first country in World War 2 to surrender to the Axis.
France
The invasion of Germany in Britain is called the
Battle of Britain.
German Blitz “lightning” attempted to attack Great Britain, yet was unsuccessful when the
RAF (Royal Air Force) was able to defeat the German Blitz).
Great Britain is saved from becoming like the
fate of France.
A Genocide, purposely trying to exterminate an entire group of people, the Jews.
Holocaust came from Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire.”
By the end of the war, a total (_____________) in this inhumane act.
of 6 million Jews died
The Pacific war started when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor,
an American Naval Base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
Like the German Blitzkrieg, the Japanese also have their own attack style,
the Kamikaze. Kamikaze means “Divine Wind”.
In ancient Japanese history, it means
the storm that saved Japan from being invaded by the Mongols.
Kamikaze, However, during World War 2, it made its new definition:
a Japanese Pilot in World War II assigned to make a suicidal crash on a target (such as a ship)
an airplane containing explosives to be flown in a suicide crash on a target.
is bleak this time for the Allied forces, with France surrendering to the enemy, Great Britain being ganked by Germany and Italy, and the U.S.A.
Winning
The Axis powers are on a winning streak. The shifting of the tides started with Germany’s wrong move,
attacking the sleeping U.S.S.R.
is the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union,
Operation Barbarossa
German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on
June 22, 1941
This broke the earlier-
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.
Hitler wanted to destroy-
Stalingrad, for it bears the name of Stalin, and to further control mainland Europe.
But Germany attacked at the wrong time,
they were blocked by the Russian Winter killing 91,000 Germans. By the end, there were only 5000-6000 Germans able to return home.
As a result, Joseph Stalin, the right hand of Lenin and now the Premier of the Soviet Union
joined the Allies and won many battles pushing back German forces to Germany.
Great Britain’s Royal army continued to push the Italian National Republican Army,
the Army Supporting Mussolini from northern Africa up back to Italy.
After the death of Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci on
28 April 1945
Italians surrendered in Northern Italy on
May 2, 1945
The angry Italian mob of the anti-fascist regime killed and hanged the dead body of Mussolini and his mistress in
Piazzale Loreto, Milan.
is the allied rescue code for France, also called D-Day.
Operation Overlord
British rescue to France was utilized using the
Amphibious Assault
Amphibious Assault
where forces from a Battleship are transferred by small marine vehicles to the shore.
With France and Great Britain attacking from the west and U.S.S.R. from the east,
Germany surrenders in 1945 after Hitler commits suicide.
Victory in Europe Day or VE Day was declared on
May 8, 1945.
Japan’s stubbornness to surrender in the war prompted the U.S. to drop its atomic bombs:
Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945
Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945
On __________, Imperial Japan surrendered to the Americans, in effect ending World War 2.
August 15, 1945
That morning, on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, the Japanese envoys (_________________) signed their names on the Instrument of Surrender.
Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, and Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu
Held near Berlin, the Potsdam Conference (________________) was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state.
(July 17-August 2, 1945)
The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represented respectively by
Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman.
The Conference result includes:
Demilitarization of Germany
Germany to pay $ 20 Billion to pay war damages
Division of Germany,
West Germany to Great Britain
East Germany to the Soviet Union.
Also, the United Nations was born on the
24th of October 1945, in San Francisco, California, United States.
The United Nations
is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations.
