World War 2 Flashcards
Allied Supreme Commander
Dwight Eisenhower
American General of the 12th Army Group in Europe
Omar Bradley
American General of the 3rd Army in Europe
George S. Patton
British General in North Africa
Bernard Montgomery
Top French General
Charles De Gaulle
British Leader who Delcared “Peace in our Time”
Neville Chamberlain
German Tank Commander Known as the “Desert Fox”
Erwin Rommel
British Leader Following CHamberlain
Winston Churchill
Nazi SS Chief
Heinrich Himmler
Nazi Air Force Reischmarschall
Herman Goering
Nazi Propaganda Chief
Joseph Goebbles
Nazi Architect
Albert Speer
Nazi Foreign Minister
Joachim Von Ribbentrop
The Butcher of Lyon
Klaus Barbie
Hitler Aid Who parachuted into scotland
Rudolf Hess
Nazi Doctor Known as the Angel of Death
Josef Mengele
Nazi Captures in Argentina and Hanged in 1962
Adolf Eichmann
Hitler’s Mistress
Ava Braun
German Secret State Police
Gestapo
Chief of the US Army Air Forces
Hap Arnold
US Ambassador to GB at the start of the War
Joseph Kennedy
Seat of Occupied French Gov’t
Vichy
Head of the Vichy French Gov’t and WWI Hero
Henri Petain
French Defense Line Facing Germany
Maginot Line
Part of Czechoslovakia ceded to Germany by Munich Pact
Sudetenland
Country Divided by German and Soviet Union
Poland
Russian who signed non-aggression pact with Hitler
Vyacheslav Molotov
Head of German V2 Rocket Program
Werner Von Braun
Country Invaded by Italy in 1939
Albania
French Port where 337,000 Soldier were evacuated in 1940
Dunkirk
Cooperation Agreement signed by FDR and Churchill
Atlantic Charter
Agreement by the US to Aid Britain with War Material
Lend/Lease
Hitler’s Mountain Hideaway
Berchtesgarten
German “Lightning War’
Blitzkrieg
German “Pocket” Battleship Scuttled in Montevideo Harbor
Graf Spee
German Battleship that sunk the HMS Hood
Bismark
Location of Decisive Allied Victory in North Africa
El Alamein
Air Battle Between RAF and the Luftwaffe
The Battle of Britain
Code Name for German Invasion of Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
Code Name for D-Day invasion
Operation overlord
D-Day Date
June 6, 1944
D-Day beaches
Omaha, Sword, Juno, Gold, Utah
Beach with Most Casualties
Omaha
French Internal Anti-Nazi Effort
Resistance
Germany’s Final Western offensive
Battle of the Bulge
City Centered Around Battle of the Bulge
Bastogne
Response Given by General McAuliffe at Bastogne
NUTS!
Largest Land Battle in History, Central Asia
Battle of Kurs
Most-Decorated US Solider
Audie Murphy
Japanese General who Ordered attack on Pearl Harbor
Tojo
Japanese Admiral who planned attach on Pearl Harbor
Yamamota
Largest Japanese Battle Ship
Yamato
Pearl Harbor Day
December 7, 1941
US Pacific Fleet Commander
Chester Nimitz
US THird Fleet Commander
William “Bull” Halsey
The Napoleon of Luzon
Douglas Macarthur
Fortress Island in Manila Bay lost to Japanese in 1942
Corregidor
Island site of first major us offensive against the Japanese
Guadalcanal
Five Brother Killed in Battle of Guadalcanal
(Fighting) Sullivans
Navel Battle off the coast of autralia, 1942
Battle of Coral Sea
Naval Battle in Central Pacific, 1942
Battle of midway
Largest Sea Battle in History off the coast of the philippines
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Island where the US flag was raised in mt suribachi
Iwo Jima
Leader of 1942 Air Raid on Tokyo
Jimmy Doolittle
Code Name for US Atomic Bomb Project
Manhattan Project
man Who Headed the Manhattan Project
Robert Oppenheimer
Plane that dropped the ataomic Bomb on Hiroshima
Enola Gay
Enola Gay Commander
Paul W. Tibbetts
Name for Hiroshima Bomb
Little Boy
Name for Nagasaki Bomb
Fat Man
Plane that dropped atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
Bock’s Car
First Conference Site of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill
Teheran, Iran
African Site of Roosevelt and Churchill’s 1943 Conference
Casablanca, Morocco
Asian Site of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill’s 1945 Conference
Yalta (in the crimea)
July 1945 Conference of Truman, Stalin and Churchill
Potsdam (Germany)
Site Where De Gaulle Directed Free French Gov’t
Algiers
Term for a Female US Factory Worker
Rosie the Riveter
US Journalist Killed in the Pacific, 1945
Ernie Pyle (Battle Okinawa)
Native American Language used a code
Navajo
Battleship where Japanese Signed Surrender
Missouri
V-E (Victory in Europe) Day
May 8, 1945
V-J (Victory over Japan) Day
August 14, 1945
Plan to Rebuild Europe after the way
Marshall Plan
Army Deserter Executed in 1945
Simon Weisenthal
Post-War Prison Where Rudolph Hess was held
Spandau