World War II Flashcards
WW II: Leader of 1942 air raid on Tokyo
Jimmy Doolittle
WW II: U.S. Third Fleet commander
William “Bull” Halsey
WW II: Name for Nagasaki bomb
Fat Man
WW II: Code name for D-Day invasion
Operation Overlord
WW II: Postwar conference site of Truman - Stalin and Churchill
Potsdam - Germany
WW II: Agreement by the U.S. to aid Britain with war materials
Lend/Lease
WW II: Largest Japanese battleship
Yamato
WW II: Location of decisive allied victory in North Africa
El-Alamein
WW II: Nazi doctor known as the “Angel of Death”
Josef Mengele
WW II: Nazi air force reichsmarschall
Herman Goering
WW II: British leader who declared “Peace in Our Time”
Neville Chamberlain
WW II: Largest land battle in history - central Russia
Battle of Kursk
WW II: Allied Supreme Commander
Dwight Eisenhower
WW II: Country invaded by Germany in 1939
Poland
WW II: Code name for German invasion of the Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
WW II: Russian who signed non-agression pact with Hitler
Vyachaslav Molotov
WW II: American general of the 12th Army Group in Europe
Omar Bradely
WW II: Site where De Gaulle directed Free French governement
Algiers
WW II: “The Butcher of Lyon”
Klaus Barbie
WW II: Head of the Vichy French government and WW I hero
Henri Petain
WW II: Plan to rebuild Europe after the war
Marshall Plan
WW II: First conference site of Roosevelt - Stalin and Churchill
Teheran - Iran
WW II: Man who headed the Manhattan project
Robert Openheimer
WW II: British leader following Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
WW II: Nazi SS Chief
Heinrich Himmler
WW II: Nazi architect
Albert Speer
WW II: “The Napoleon of Luzon”
Douglas MacArthur
WW II: D-Day beach with the most casualties
Omaha
WW II: Island site of first major U.S. offensive against the Japanese
Guadalcanal
WW II: Army deserter executed in 1945
Eddie Slovak
WW II: V-J Day
September 2nd 1945
WW II: post-war prison where Rudolph Hess was held
Spandau