World War Two Flashcards

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Munich✔

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The Munich Crisis

  • 1938
  • Germany wanted Sudetenland
  • region of Czechoslovakia
  • large German speaking population
  • Fr & USSR promised to protect Czech.
  • GB promised to support Fr
  • GB, Fr, It, & Ger meet in Munich to talk about crisis
  • Fr & GB give Sudetenland to Germ
  • Feel they have stopped war
  • Br. Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, says we have “peace in our time.
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Stalingrad✔

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  • Spring 1942- Hitler wants Russia’s oil
  • Needs to capture Stalingrad
  • Ger capture city in Sept- no retreat allowed
  • Soviets counterattack, surround city
  • Germans in city are trapped
  • Ger eventually surrender
  • Major turning point in Europe, Ger is on the defensive after Stalingrad
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D-Day✔

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  • Invasion of France- code name D-Day
  • Supreme Commander- Dwight David Eisenhower
  • Invasion happened at Normandy
  • Largest naval invasion in history
  • June 6, 1944
  • About 150,000 troops landed to fierce resistance
  • Some of the worst fighting was at Omaha Beach (one Am. Landing zone)
  • By end of D-Day, all beaches are established
    Battle of Normandy
  • D-Day invasion successful, but Allies have a hard time pushing inland
  • Normandy hedgerows prevent movement
  • July- Allies break out- Germans in retreat
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Midway✔

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  • Jap Admiral Yamamoto wants to force Am fleet to fight- June 1942
  • Plans to attack Midway Is.
  • Am Admiral Chester Nimitz sets trap
  • Am planes sink 4 Japanese carriers
  • Midway is the turning point in the Pacific
  • Japan no longer attacks, goes onto the defensive
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December 7, 1941✔

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Pearl Harbor

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August 6, 1945✔

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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

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fascism✔

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aggressive nationalism, nation is more important than the individual

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lebensraum✔

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Living space

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List the countries with dictators in the 20s & 30✔

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Italy
Poland
Germany
Austria

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blitzkrieg✔

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  • Germ used Blitzkrieg to defeat Poland quickly
  • Used air power, fast armor & mechanized infantry
  • In April 1940, Ger invaded Norway & Denmark
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Final Solution✔

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  • Final Solution- Nazi plan to efficiently exterminate undesirables in Nazi controlled territory
  • Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Slavs, Jehovah’s Witness
  • German goal was to cleanse lebensraum of undesirables
  • Placed in 2 types of camp
  • Concentration
  • Extermination
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Lend-Lease✔

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  • Allows US to lend arms to counties “vital to the defense of the United States”
  • If GB stops Axis; the US won’t have to
  • US should be “arsenal of democracy”
  • L-L loaned arms to GB then USSR
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Hitler’s 2 major mistakes✔

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Stops attack on Britain in battle of Dunkirk

Hitlers gives up in the Battle of Britain

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Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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  • Should the US use the bomb?
  • Truman says yes
  • US give Japan an ultimatum- surrender or suffer mass destruction
  • Japan doesn’t respond
  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.
  • August 9, 1945- USSR declares war on Japan
  • US drops 2nd bomb on Nagasaki
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