World War Two Flashcards
Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister
“Let’s fight for what’s good”
“Finest hour”
Neville Chanberlain
British Prime Minister before CHURCHILL
-appeasement “just give Hitler what he wants, he will stop”
Dwight Eisenhower
Supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces (scaef)
D-Day: HE BALANCED THE DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES OF DIFFERENT ALLIED LEADERS
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Japan commander of forces in IWO JIMA
Douglas MacArthur
Evacuated the Philippines (leaves Americans behind) Commander of is Southern forces in Island hopping.
- reconquered Philippines
- Commander during Korean War
Bernard Montgomery
Allied commander during the African campaign.
- El Alamine
- Tunisia
- land commander of D-Day invasion
- CAME UP WITH MARKET GARDEN
Chester Nimitz
Commander of Central forces during ISLAND HOPPING CAMPAIGN
George Partton
(Thought he was a women)
- invasion of Sicily
- “touch” “cobra”
–did not like Montgomery
Friedrich Von Paulus
German commander of Stalingrad
(Hitler promised him help)
-TANK 3rd Army
Bertram Ramsey
Commander of all NAVAL FORCES during D-Day
Erwin Rommel
“Desert Fox”
- may have been involved in Valcury
- (pro Germany not pro Natzi)
Joseph Stalin
USSR (communist leader)
“Iron fist”
Harry Truman
Took over after FDR died
- shown all military secrets
- agreed to drop A Bomb
Isoroku Yamamoto
Japanese who planed PEAR HARBOR
“If we do this, I give you 6 months”
-3 days off
Germany Rulers the world
Conquered
- Poland (bombings 1.25 million)
- Norway (Iron Ore)
- Denmark
- France (2.5 million, took 3/5 of French land)
–Powerful Air Force Luftwaffe
-good until Stalingrad
The Allied Mediterranean
(North Africa)
(Greece)
(Sicily)
(“Torch”)
Hitlers Mistakes
Only on account of his own Genius
- -Georing in charge of Luftwaffe (did not come through on promises)
- –strop order in France
- —-Stalingrad
- ——confident in allied loss
From Midway to Tokyo Bay
Midway- major turning point in Pacific
- Guadalcanal
- -Truk
- –Saipan
- —Philippines sea
- —-Guam
- —–Tinian
- ——IWO JIMA
- ——-Okinawa
Day of Days
Eisenhower- supreme commander
Sir Berrttan Ramsey- Naval
Commander
Sir Trafford Mallory- air commander
Patton “fake” military in England
- 8 million solder, airman, sailers
- -11,000 planes
- -6,935 Vessels
- -built harbor
53,000 dead
-BEACH INVASIONS
The Motherland War
The Motherland War
-original alliance with Hitler
“Let’s win this for the motherland”
- Stalingrad (turned Germany away)
- took Berlin
- Korea (started near end of WW 2)
D-Day
Beaches
- Omaha
- Norway
Pearl Harbor
Battleship bay
-different Japanese air strikes
IWO JIMA
Mt. Serabotchi
-2 airfields
Stalingrad
Two cites
–Volga River
