Ww2 Flashcards
Isoroku Yamamoto
Mastermind behind Pearl Harbor
Maginot line
French forts along French and Germany border
Luftwaffe
Germanys air-force
Douglas MacArthur
The commander of the allied forces in the pacific
Operation Barbarossa
The Nazi plan to invade the Soviet Union
Pearl Harbor
December 7th 1941
Battle of midway
Considered the Turing point in the pacific for the USA
Georgi Zhukov
Led the soviets in repelling the Nazi invasion of the USSR
Operation sea lion
Nazi plan to attack Great Britain-Nazis outnumbered l-they attacked airfields then cities
Joseph Stalin
Dictator of Soviet Union
James Doolittle
Guy who dropped the bombs on Japan in reaction to Pearl Harbor
Battle of Guadalcanal
USA attacked this place because Japan was building a new air base
Henri Petain
Controlled southern part of France when France fell
Chester Nimitz
Commander in chief of the USA pacific fleet
Charles de Gaulle
Leader of free France in London England
Winston Churchill
British prime minister
Erwin kommel
Desert Fox-Nazi leader of the tank division
Battle of the coral sea
A new battle strategy was used-airplanes took off from huge aircraft carriers and attacked ships
Lend-lease act
Passed in 1941 president could lend/lease arms/other supplies to any other country in alliance with USA
Who did Stalin sign the Nonaggression pact with?
Adopt Hitler or Nazi Germany
When did world war 2 start
September 1st 1939
The Atlantic charter was a declaration of the right to freedom to?
A nation could choose its own government, trade, and no territorial changes
Germany successfully used the Blizkrieg in an attack on
Poland
What 2 actions did the USA take to stop the Japanese advance in Southeast Asia
- USA sent aid to Chinese resistance
2. cutoff oil shipment to Japan
What 4 countries did Joseph Stalin (USSR) take under the nonaggression pact?
Lithuania,Latvia,Estonia,Finland
Explain the Nazi military strategy of the blitzkrieg
The attack is fast and quick and surprises the the victim/enemy-lighting war/quick moving attacks
