WW2 Flashcards
causes
-treaty of versailles
-hitler’s aims and actions
-policy of appeasement
–nazi soviet pact
-american isolation
-japanese agression
luftwaffe
german airforce
the treaty of Versailles 1919
germany forced to sign a peace treaty at the end of the first world war.
-germany to take the blame
-germany to pay compensation
-germany no go to the rheinland
-german army reduced
phoney war
7 month preparation time before ww2
denmark and norway
hitler took over in 1 day for their iron and ports
operation dynamo
hitler taking france.
Maginot line
-Dunkirk-300,000 soldiers escaped
vichy france
france split into two
north -> direct German rule
south-> nazi sympathisers ruled
operation sea lion
raf and luftwaffe
they wanted..
-shipping ports
-airfields
-radar stations
the blitz
germans bombed british cities
people used anderson shelters in ther backgardens and slept underground in the tube
lend-lease system
america providing britian with supplies
1940
mussolini joined thw war
operation barbarossa
hitler used blitzkrieg to try take over russia
Russia used scorched earth policy and trapped german army 100,000 soldiers were taken as pows
pearl harbor 1941
Japan bombed pearl harbor forcing america to join the war
TURNING POINT
1945 VE-Day
8 May 1945 end of the war after hitlers surrender
august 1945- america
US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Immediate Consequences
-Death
-Destruction and economic revival
-Refugees
-War crime trials
Long term consequencea
-fate of germans : 4 equal parts
-fate of japan :occupied by US forces
-growth of superpowers-america and USSR
-End of european supremace: britain and france empires flattened
-the european unoin
