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World War Two 🪖 Flashcards

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What happened in 1933?

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Hitler became Chancellor of Germany

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What happened on Sept 3rd 1939

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Britain declared war on German

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What happened on may-jun 1940

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Evacuation of dunkirk

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4
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What happened in summer 1940

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Battle of Britain

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5
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What happened in sep 1940-41

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Blitz German bombing of London

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What happened in 1941?

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Germany invades USSR in June, Japan attack park harbour Dec 7th

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What happened in jun 1944

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D day: allied invasion of France

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What happens in aug 1945

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Atomic homes dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki so ending war

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9
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Who was Adolf hitler

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The leader of Germany from 1933-45

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10
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What was winston churchill

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British prime minister from 1940-5

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11
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Who was high dowding

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Leader of raf

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12
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Who was Harry truman

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President of USA who ordered atomic bombs to be drop

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13
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Who was Neville chamberlain

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British PM associated with the appeasement of Hitler

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What was Hermann goering

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Leader of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe

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15
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Who was Dwight Eisenhower

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US General in charge of D Day

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What is appeasement

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The policy of giving in to Hitler in order to keep pea

17
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What is a fighter command

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Part of the Royal Air Force (RAF) that fought in the battle of Britan

18
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What is overlord

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Code name for dday

19
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What is a spitfire

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British plane that fought in the Battle of Britain

20
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What is a radar

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early warning technology that helped the raf in the Battle of Britain

21
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What is axis

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Alliance between Italy Germany and Japan

22
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What is operation dynamo

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Code name for Dunkirk evacuation

23
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What is propaganda

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One sided messages such as those designed to keep up morale during ww2

24
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What is Barbarossa

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Code name for German invasion of ussr

25
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What is sealion

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Code name for the German invasion of Britain

26
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What is blitz spirit

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A propaganda message that suggested that Britons were coping well with the blitz

27
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What is Stalingrad

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The ussr defeated the Germans here: a key turning point

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What is dunkirk

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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.

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What is the Battle of Britain

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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.

30
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What is the blitz

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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.

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What is the war in pacific?

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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)

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