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World War II White Study Guide Flashcards

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explain hitler (as a cause of ww2)

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he vowed to defy the treaty of Versailles and restore Germany to it’s greatness

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explain expansionism (cause of ww2)

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Germany, Italy, and japan began expanding their empires by over taking neighbor countries

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what we’re the causes of ww2?

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  1. hitler
  2. expansionism
  3. appeasement
  4. treaty of Versailles
  5. Munich agreement
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explain appeasement (cause of ww2)

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meeting demands of a hostile power to avoid war

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explain the treaty of Versailles (cause of ww2)

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many Germans resented it and it’s harshness

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what was the Munich conference? (cause of ww2)

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  • meeting with Britain + Germany
  • great Britain agreed Germany could have the Sudentenland as long as they didn’t make anymore territorial demands
  • signed on September 29, 1938
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what was the non-aggression pact?

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  • between Germany and Soviet Union
  • divided Europe
  • Soviet Union to have the Baltic states of Eastern Europe and Germany to have Western Europe
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who was in the axis powers?

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Germany: hitler
Italy: Mussolini
japan: emperor Hirohito

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who was in the allied powers?

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Great Britain: prime minster Churchill
Russia: Stalin
MURICA: Franklin D. Roosevelt

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describe hitlers first invasion of Poland

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  • September 1st, 1939
  • used blitzkrieg method
  • hitler takes over Poland, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands
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what happens on September 3rd, 1939?

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France and Britain declare war on Germany

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describe the Battle of Britain

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  • nazis bomb Britain, hoping they will withdrawal from the war
  • first battle fought over air
  • British use radar and enigma to detect nazi attacks, launch counter offensive
  • significance: proved hitlers attacks could be held off
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what was the German Air Force called?

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Luftwaffe

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what was the British Air Force called?

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RAF: Royal Air Force

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who was known as “desert fox”?

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German general Erwin Rommel

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why did the US decide to stay isolated?

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  • citizens felt they we’re dragged into ww1
  • citizens felt we should concentrate on more domestic problems
  • congress passed neutrality acts in the 30s to prevent US from taking sides
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describe what happened at Pearl Harbor

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  • cause: we cut off Japan’s oil supply
  • Japanese planes bomb U.S naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
  • damaged/sank 8 battleships, destroyed 200 planes, 2400 troops killed
  • pulled US into war
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what we’re two Japanese location camps in Arkansas?

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  • Jerome

- rohuer

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what we’re 3 German POW camps in Arkansas?

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  • camp Robinson
  • camp Chaffee
  • camp Dermott
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describe the Doolittle raid

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  • lieutenant colonel Doolittle bombs Tokyo and our other cities
  • significance: proved US was capable of striking back, boosted US morale
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describe the battle of midway

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  • location: key us airfield on midway island
  • admiral Charles Nimitz breaks japan code and knew of attacks, launched counter offensive
  • US destroyed all aircraft on Japan’s aircraft carriers
  • turned tide on the war of the pacific, allies take offensive
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what did the war production board do?

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directed the manufacture of wartime supplies

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what we’re 3 advances led by the office of scientific research and development?

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  • manhattan project
  • improved radar and sonar
  • created penicillin
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describe the battle of Stalingrad

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  • Luftwaffe conduct nightly raids, soviets launch counter offensive
  • soviets trap Germans in city, cutting off supplies
  • 90,000 of the 330,000 survived
  • German now on defensive side
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what was Stalingrad?

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major industrial center by Volga river

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describe D-Day

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  • June 6, 1944
  • largest land/sea/air attack ins history
  • led by general Eisenhower
  • allied forces force their way into 60 mile beach in Normandy France
  • Germany retreats eastward
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describe the battle of the bulge

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  • last major German offensive
  • -hitler tries to divide allied troops, and makes a “bulge”
  • allied troops counter attack and force German retreat
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what was the yalta conference?

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  • 2nd wartime conference of the Big 3

- discussed what to do about post-war world

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describe VE Day

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  • victory in Europe
  • Eisenhower accepts unconditional surrender from German military
  • surrender officially signed in Berlin
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what is island hopping?

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-capturing certain key islands, one after another until japan is within reach

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who was the commander of the allied forces in the pacific?

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Douglas MacArthur

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who was the commander of allied forces in Europe?

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Eisenhower

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what we’re the kamikaze?

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Japanese suicide planes

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what was the Bataan death march?

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forced march (by Japanese) of 50 miles, killing 16,000 of the 70,000-75,000

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describe the takeover of Iwo Jima

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  • 8 square miles
  • heavily fortified
  • allies struggled for every inch
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describe the takeover of Okinawa

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  • one if the bloodiest battles on land
  • Japanese puts up desperate fight to keep allies from getting to japan
  • highest # of deaths in the pacific theater
  • Japanese lost 100,000
  • US lost 50,000
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explain the atomic bomb

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  • president Harry S. Truman wanted to end to the war fast

- ordered Japan’s surrender or they would experience a “rain of ruins from the sky”

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when was the bomb dropped of hiroshima?

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August 6th, 1945

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when was the bomb dropped on Nagasaki?

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August 9, 1945

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what was the Marshall plan?

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-US Secretary of State-George Marshall offers economic aid to European countries regardless of what side they we’re on

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describe the willawaw war

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-conflict between allied troops and japan troops on the Aleutian Islands

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who was Maurice “footie” Britt?

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  • served in North Africa and Italy
  • received congressional Medal of Honor
  • later served as lieutenant governor
43
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who was William Darby?

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  • helped the army ranger battalion
  • uses secret tactics to attack enemy troops
  • his men knows as Darby’s rangers
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who was Paul Douglas?

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  • from Greene county

- one of the most highly decorated fighter pilots

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who was pierce mckennon?

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  • famous flyjng ace from Greene county

- shot down more than 20 enemy planes

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who was Woodrow W. Crockett?

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served as Tuskegee airman

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