Section 4 Flashcards

1
Q

What battle was the turning point in the Soviet Union?

A

Battle of Stalingrad

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2
Q

Why did Churchill and Roosevelt meet at the White House?

A

To develop a “joint war policy”

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3
Q

What was the only way to dislodge the Rommel and troops from El Almein?

A

A massive frontal attack

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4
Q

What was the outcome of El Almein?

A

Rommel’s army was beaten and their forces had to fall back

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5
Q

Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?

A

He was an American general that lead the Allied forces during the Operation Torch

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6
Q

Why did Hitler send out his Sixth Army?

A

To seize the oil fields in the Caucasus Mountains

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7
Q

When did the Battle of Stalingrad begin?

A

August 23, 1942

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8
Q

What happened during the battle?

A

The Luftwaffe went on nightly bombing raids which set most of the city ablaze and left the rest in rubble

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9
Q

What did the Soviet troops do?

A

They trapped all German soldiers inside Stalingrad and cut off all of their supplies

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10
Q

How did Hitler respond when he was begged to order a retreat?

A

He said the city was “to be held at all costs”

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11
Q

What caused Mussolini to lose power?

A

The conquest of Italy

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12
Q

What did Italian Renaissance fighter find in one of the German trucks they ambushed?

A

Mussolini disguised as a German soldier

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13
Q

What did they do to Mussolini?

A

They shot him and hung his body in downtown Milan for all to see

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14
Q

How did the US mobilize for war?

A

They converted their peacetime operations to wartime production and made everything from machine guns to boots, automobile companies started making tanks, and typewriter companies made armor-piercing shells.

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15
Q

What happened when factories focused completely on producing products for war?

A

A shortage of consumer goods hit the United States

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16
Q

What was operation overload?

A

The code-name for the invasion of Normandy, which was the largest land and sea attack in history

17
Q

After Okinawa, what was the next stop for the Allies?

A

Japan

18
Q

Who were the Kamikazes?

A

Japanese suicide pilots

19
Q

How did the Kamikazes sink Allied ships?

A

They would crash-dive their bomb-filled planes straight into them

20
Q

What was one of the bloodiest land battles of the war?

A

Okinawa- Japan lost 100,000 troops, America lost 12,000

21
Q

Where was the first atomic bomb exploded?

A

A desert in New Mexico on July 16, 1945

22
Q

What caused the war to finally end for good?

A

The Japanese surrendering to General Douglas MacArthur on September 2