Lesson 4 - events and end of WW2 Flashcards
2 things hitler demanded from europe
Lebensraum and Appeasement
a German word that means “Living Space”
Lebensraum
(Lebensraum) Hitler demanded to re-acquire territories that they have lost during World War 1 as an effect of the treaty of Versailles. 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. Exactly what Great Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did through Appeasement that gave Sudetenland to Hitler.
Appeasement
To secure peace with a possible threat, Germany signed a peace treaty with USSR, the ____. It is a Non- Aggression pact between Germany and Russia signed in **Moscow on August 23, 1939. **
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
At ____, 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 Germany starting the Second World War.
4:45 in the morning of September 1, 1939
The Two theaters
European and Pacific
The European theater is participated by…
Great Britain and France versus Germany and Italy
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
France surrendered to the German blitzkrieg after ____. This made France the first country in World War 2 to surrender to the Axis.
6 weeks from May 10 – June 22, 1940
France surrendered to the German blitzkrieg after ____. This made France the first country in World War 2 to surrender to the Axis.
6 weeks from May 10 – June 22, 1940
The invasion of Germany in Britain
Battle of Britain
The invasion of Germany in Britain
Battle of Britain
German Blitz “lightning” attempted to attack Great Britain, yet was unsuccessful when the ____ was able to defeat the German Blitz).
RAF (Royal Air Force)
scapegoat of all German miseries
The Jews
Holocaust came from Greek origin meaning ____. A Genocide, purposely trying to exterminate an entire group of people, the Jews.
“sacrifice by fire”
How many Jews died in the holocaust ?
6 million
The Pacific war started when Japan attacked ____, an American Naval Base in Hawaii on _____. The United States of America participated in the War.
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Like the German Blitzkrieg, the Japanese also have their own attack style, the ____, meaning “_____”. In ancient Japanese history, it means the storm that saved Japan from being invaded by the Mongols.
Kamikaze, Divine Wind
definition of Kamikaze
-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 the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941.
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler wanted to destroy _____, for it bears the name of ___, and to further control mainland Europe.
Stalingrad, Stalin
Hitler wanted to destroy _____, for it bears the name of ___, and to further control mainland Europe.
Stalingrad, Stalin
Germany attacked at the wrong time, they were blocked by the ______ killing ____ Germans. By the end, there were only ____ Germans able to return home.
Russian Winter,
91,000 ,
5000-6000
Great Britain’s Royal army continued to push the ______, the Army Supporting Mussolini from northern Africa up back to Italy.
Italian National Republican Army (INRA)
After the death of Mussolini and his mistress, _____ on _____, Italians surrendered in Northern Italy on ____.
Clara Petacci ,
28 April 1945 ,
May 2, 1945.
the allied rescue code for France, also called D-Day.
Operation overlord
British rescue to France was utilized using the ______. An Assault in World War 2 where forces from a Battleship are transferred by small marine vehicles to the shore.
Amphibious Assault
With France and Great Britain attacking from the west and U.S.S.R. from the east, Germany surrenders in _____ after Hitler commits suicide. Victory in Europe Day or VE Day was declared on _____.
1945 ,
May 8, 1945
Though Germany and Italy surrendered, Japan stayed stubborn. 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. Signed in _____
August 15, 1945
U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay
