Ww2 Flashcards
What was hitters foreign policy
Overturn the treaty of Versailles
Retake lost land
United all German speakers under German rule
Lebensraum expand Germany’s borders to create living space
Only Germans can be citizens no Jewish people
Citizens are entitled to a job and a decent standard of living if this cannot be achieved and foreigners should be expelled
What is appeasement
When the allied forces just let hitler get away with things
What did hitler do from 1934-1935
Hitler realms breaks the treaty of Versailles secretly start building submarines tanks and fighter planes puts in conscription takes Germany off of the league of Nations
How does hitler rearming create tension in Europe
Britain and France will be expected to uphold the treaty of Versailles
They were scared that he would invade
What was the reaction of allied forces to hitters rearmament
Is France and Britain fought it was responsible let him carry on
What did Hitler do in 1936
Hitler enters the Rhineland he sent soldiers into the Rhineland he breaks the treaty again he signed a treaty with Japan and Italy
How does Hitler entering the Rhineland create tension in Europe
He is forbidden to go there
He was building it up doing more and breaking more rules on the treaty of Versailles
What is the allied response to Hitler entering the Rhineland
No one stop them they believed it was their land and they are just putting people in it Hitler said any resistance and the troops must come back
What does Hitler due on the 12th of March 1938
German troops march into Austria
The leader resigned another leader takes over and supports Hitler
How does Germany going into Austria create tension in Europe
He could soon be unstoppable he had broken treaty again
What was the allied response to Hitler marching into Austria
They didn’t do anything it wasn’t bad enough Austria wanted to be German land
What does Hitler do September 1938
Negotiate and gets the Sudetenland
How does this create tension in Europe
They hoped there would now be peace
What was the allied response to Hitler negotiating the Sudetenland
They gave land to him without inviting the persons land it was to the meeting
What did Hitler do in 1938 March
Hitler invade the rest of Czechoslovakia took it for living space
How does Hitler taking Czechoslovakia create tension in Europe
The allied forces realised he wasn’t gonna stop
What was the allied response to Hitler taking Czechoslovakia
They started to prepare for war they agreed to help Poland if they needed it
What did Hitler do August 1939
Signs the Nazi soviet pact Hitler signs a treaty with Stalin that says they wouldn’t fight each other the Russians could have part of Poland
What was the allied response to the Nazi soviet pact
Surprised allies because he hated communism but they didn’t do anything
What did Hitler do September 1939
Invades Poland
And what is the allied response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland
They declare war on Germany
What is stage one of the blitzkrieg tactics
The attack begins with bomber aircraft blowing up communication and airfields
What is stage two of blitzkrieg tactics
Parachutists I dropped ahead the main forces to catch a bridges and cut telephone lines lines
What is stage three of blitzkrieg tactics
Thanks advance over borders with support from fighter planes use radio to coordinate attack
What is stage four of blitzkrieg tactics
Infantry follow tanks and consolidate position secure territory until enemy is defeated
What is evidence for Dunkirk being a disaster
I do a 30,000 British man captured or dead Abandoned equipment Abandoned only a line Left military might Seen as a retreat We have lost Paris Gave French resources to Germany Wars are not one by evacuations said Churchill
What is evidence for Dunkirk being a miracle
Soldiers wanted to go back to France a lot of German soldiers were killed as well a lot of troops are still alive didn’t cross the spirits smart tactics from British when they left the guns they damaged them so they were not able to use by the Jones over a third of 1 million men brought home
Allowed them to change tactics
Better equipped for D-Day
Why was Hitler able to invade France
He got through the Ardennes forest poor planning from French when he did French soldiers deserted surrounding the soldiers causing them to surrender by blitzkrieg tactics the imaginot line only faced one way so when the Germans got round the back they made them surrender
What are the reasons for the RAF victory in the battle of Britain
And the biggest one is a British fighter planes were faster and could move better than German planes
British hard radar this meant they knew where Germans were
The German planes could only fly for 30 minutes at a time
The German planes flew in groups which made them targets
And they had short periods of rest in between flights
Hitler’s bombing of factories didn’t work
Britain produce 563 new planes each month
The Germans lost 1652 planes the RAF only lost 1000 planes
