World War Two Flashcards
1
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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
4
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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
5
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December 7, 1941✔
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Pearl Harbor
6
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August 6, 1945✔
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Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
7
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fascism✔
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aggressive nationalism, nation is more important than the individual
8
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lebensraum✔
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Living space
9
Q
List the countries with dictators in the 20s & 30✔
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Italy
Poland
Germany
Austria
10
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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
11
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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
12
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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
13
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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
14
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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