World War 2 Flashcards
Date
Hitler became chancellor of Germany
1933
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Britain declared war of Germany
September 3rd 1939
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Evacuation of Dunkirk
May-june 1940
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Battle of Britain
Summer 1940
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Blitz German bombing of London
September 1940-1941
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German invades USSR in June; Japan attack pearl harbour
1941
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D day: allied invasion of France
June 1944
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ending war
Aug 1945
Adolf hitler
Leader of Germany 1933-45
Winston Churchill
British prime minister from 1940-45
Hugh dowding
Leader of RAF
Harry Truman
President of USA who ordered atomic bombs to be dropped
Neville chaimberlain
British PM associated with the appeasement of hitler
Hermann Goering
Leader of a German air force (luftwaffe )
Dwight Eisenhower
US general in charge of D day
Appeasement
The policy of giving in to hitler in order to keep peace
Stalingrad
The USSR defeated Germans here: a key turning point
Dunkirk
-major Evacuation of British and allied troops
-338,000 managed to escape
Battle of Britain
-German air force had to take over skies and defeat RAF
-British invention of radar-> Germans were the intercepted early
-nazi’s inability to take over skies meant that the plans were invasion delayed
Dday
- allied invasion caught Germans by surprise
-huge casualties
Blitz
- German bombing of Britain
-main cities
-43,000 people died
-hitler’s aim was to kill as many people possible so Britain became too poor to fight
-auxiliary fire service, air raid precautions
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
-Japan had kamikaze pilots (didn’t surrender)
-only way land could be taken back was to kill all Japanese
-single bomb was dropped, killed 29,000
-second bomb was dropped and a week later Japanese surrendered
