WW2 Flashcards
major cause of WW2
treaty of versailles, world wide great depression
allegiances
axis powers and allied powers
FDR
¨day of infamy¨
Churchill
¨never surrender¨
Neutrality Act -
the provide written documentation of US intent to stay out or foreign
Kristallnact
Assassination in France that led to rioting against Jews throughout occupied Europe
Nuremberg Laws
series of laws by Nazis to strip Jews of right (wearing star of David)
reasons for Pearl Harbor
A) destroy US pacific fleet / B) weaken US war resolve
ID
A) Marshall - Chief of staff: all decisions went through him / B) Eisenhower - Lead in Africa: Supreme Court in Europe / C) Patton - Italy : Precipitation in D-Day / D) MacArthur Supreme Commander military: Pacific / E) Nimitz - Supreme Commander Naval/Pacific
Battles
A) D-Day, June 6th, 1944 - Invasion of Normandy - opening of 2nd front in France / B) Battle of Bulge - months long battle - Hitlers last ditch attempt at breaking Allied Advance
Manhattan Project
(code name) Project for the development of Atomic Bomb
Oppenheimer
Lead scientist on Manhattan Project
Einstien
Splitting atomic power behind bomb
Operational Names
Operation Overlord - D-Day invasion of N. Africa Normandy, June 6, 1944
Operation Torch
Invasion
US position at start of WW2
neutral at the start of WW2
WW2 Important Dates
Dec 7th 1941 - Pearl Harbor
June 6th 1944 - D-Day - invasion of Normandy
Sept 3rd, 1939 - official start of WW2 (invasion of Poland)
May 8th, 1945 - Victory in Europe Day
Aug 14, 1945 - Victory in Japan
Aug 6, 1945 - Hiroshami
Aug 9, 1945 - Nagasaki
Appeasement
P.M Chamberlian, policy of giving into Hitler’s Demand
1933
Recognition of USSR
Final Solution
developed by Eichman used to exterminate Jews of Europe
Extermination Camps
Located in Poland Sobibar, Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Majanek, Auschwitz - Birkenau
Results of Pearl Harbor
declaration of war on Axis Powers
ID
a) Casablanca - unconditional surrender / b) Yalta - Division of Germany, elections in Europe / c) Potsdam - Surrenders trials post war japan
San Francisco
Setup of UN
Battles in the Pacific
A) Okinawa - increasing bloody battles in pacific
B) Iwo Jima - famous flag raising on Mount SuriBachi (after pearl harbor)
Victory´s
A) victory in europe day - may 8th, 1945 - germany / b) victory in japan day - aug 14, 1945 - japan / c) hiroshima - 1st atomic bomb (enola gay) - aug 6, 1945 / d) nagasaki - 2nd - bockscar - aug 9, 1945
trial names
a) nuremberg trials - trials of top nazis / b) tokoyo war crime trials - trial of top japanese
allied powers
US (FDR and Harry Truman), GB (Chamberlain and Churchill), USSR (Stalin)
smaller allied leaders
Free France (General Charles De Gaulle), Austria (Schuschnigg), Czech (Hacha)
axis powers
germany (hitler), italy (mussolini), japan (Emperor Hirohito and Prime Minuster Hideki Tojo)
smaller axis nations
Spain (Francisco Franco), French (Henri Petain (Nazi/Vichy)
totalitarianism
def. a political theory where the people are subordinate to state or central government
fascism
def. a political theory where the people are subordinate to state or central government ; controlled by a dictator (italy and spain)
nazism
def. policy of race/religion hatred
communism
def. policy of FORCED equality
militarism - (ex. ussr)
def. sometimes a dictator emphasis on Armed Forces (japan)
what did japan invade?
Manchuria
what did italy invade
Ethiopia
Jeanette Rankin
only one to vote against declaration
Internment Groups
Issei
direct immigrants from japan
nisei
General George Marshal
Get Germany First
Rosie the Riveter
General George Marshal wanted to bring woman in the fold, woman were then segregated in Army Units
War Board
Office of War Mobilization and Office of Price Administration
North Africa
Invasion Operation Torch, Afrika Korps: Led by Rommel German Desert Soldiers
