ww2 Flashcards
3 countries ruled by fascist dictators by the end of the 1930s
Spain
Italy
Germany
The earliest incident leading up to WWII in Asia was Japan invading __________ in 1931
Manchuria
2 world leaders signed a nonaggression pact one week before the invasion of Poland that started WWI
Hitler and Stalin
3 following factors that kept countries from challenging the expanding Axis empires
A global depression
Memories of WWI
The belief in isolationism
What happened at the Munich Conference of 1938?
The leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler
Did Hitler keep his promise at Munich Conference?
no
3 major Axis Powers in WWII
Germany, Italy, Japan
Maginot Line
array of defenses that France built along its border with Germany in the 1930s, designed to prevent an invasion
Why did Maginot Line fail?
because it was not mobile and it assumed that the Ardennes (rough terrain) was impenetrable
D-Day
Allies invaded Normandy (Germany)
German war strategy used in WWII to overwhelm the enemy
Blitzkrieg “Lightning War”- a surprise attack to overwhelm opponents rapidly
major turning point in the war against Japan in the Pacific
Battle of Midway, Allied victory
How many Jews were put to death as a result of Hitler’s Final Solution?
6 mil
Hitler’s last major offensive in Europe? Was it successful?
The Battle of the Bulge. It was not successful, the allies won
3 blunders of Adolf Hitler during WWII
Declaring war on the USA
Invasion of Russia
Putting so many resources into the extermination of the Jews
Which country saw the largest number of Jews killed in the Holocaust?
Poland
At which location did Operation Overlord meet the most resistance by the Germans? (Code name for the beach?)
Omaha Beach, where there were over 2,000 American casualties
Japanese cities that were sites of atomic explosions
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
What country saw the most casualties during WWII?
Soviet Union
What organization was created after WWII (1945) to prevent another war from starting?
United Nations
What battle cost the USSR over one million soldiers/ put the Germans on the defensive on the Russian front
Stalingrad
Hitler announces that he will no longer follow the Treaty of Versailles
1: march 1935
Hitler is allowed to take the Rhineland
2: march 1936
The Anschluss is allowed to occur (the uniting of Austria with Germany)
3: march 1938
