World War Two 🪖 Flashcards
What happened in 1933?
Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
What happened on Sept 3rd 1939
Britain declared war on German
What happened on may-jun 1940
Evacuation of dunkirk
What happened in summer 1940
Battle of Britain
What happened in sep 1940-41
Blitz German bombing of London
What happened in 1941?
Germany invades USSR in June, Japan attack park harbour Dec 7th
What happened in jun 1944
D day: allied invasion of France
What happens in aug 1945
Atomic homes dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki so ending war
Who was Adolf hitler
The leader of Germany from 1933-45
What was winston churchill
British prime minister from 1940-5
Who was high dowding
Leader of raf
Who was Harry truman
President of USA who ordered atomic bombs to be drop
Who was Neville chamberlain
British PM associated with the appeasement of Hitler
What was Hermann goering
Leader of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe
Who was Dwight Eisenhower
US General in charge of D Day
What is appeasement
The policy of giving in to Hitler in order to keep pea
What is a fighter command
Part of the Royal Air Force (RAF) that fought in the battle of Britan
What is overlord
Code name for dday
What is a spitfire
British plane that fought in the Battle of Britain
What is a radar
early warning technology that helped the raf in the Battle of Britain
What is axis
Alliance between Italy Germany and Japan
What is operation dynamo
Code name for Dunkirk evacuation
What is propaganda
One sided messages such as those designed to keep up morale during ww2
What is Barbarossa
Code name for German invasion of ussr
What is sealion
Code name for the German invasion of Britain
What is blitz spirit
A propaganda message that suggested that Britons were coping well with the blitz
What is Stalingrad
The ussr defeated the Germans here: a key turning point
What is dunkirk
The Low Countries (Holland & Belgium), France and the BEF [British Expeditionary Forces], proved no match for the Wehrmacht [Germany armyland the Luftwaffe [German air force]. British troops retreated from the invaders and some 226,000 British and 110,000 French troops were rescued from the port of Dunkirk by mix of boats that ranged from fishing boats to Navy destroyers.
What is the Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain, lasting from July to Oct 1940, was the first to be fought solely in the air. German aim was to control the skies so it could invade Britain.
Germany had a bigger air force, but Britain had radar.
Germany also decided to attack factories & town, not the airfields, allowing the RAF to counter attack. The RAF had a narrow victory & postponed the German invasion plans.
What is the blitz
On 7 Sep 1940, the Luftwaffe unleashed bombing campaign against London and Britain’s major cities. Aim to break morale and make Britain give up. Instead the raids brought country together and created the ‘Blitz Spirit The bombing continued for 76 nights in a row, with daytime raids as well.
Liverpool,
Manchester, Swansea,
Cardiff, Bristol,
Southampton were also targeted. Coventry Blitz one of the worst - over 400 bombers attacked Coventry that night and in the early morning of November 15th 1940.
What is the war in pacific?
After the attack on Pearl Harbour America started to attack Japanese forces in the Pacific. They moved from island to island, removing Japanese forces, as well as
forces,
attacking the Japanese navy. 1942 saw the battle of Midway stop Japanese expansion.
The Japanese fought fiercely - with many fighting to the death, such as on the island if Iwo Jima - defended by roughly 23,000
Japanese, with anly
1,083
prisoners
(American losses included 5,900 dead and 17,400 wounded)
