WW2 Flashcards
What year did WW2 start and end?
1939-1945
What were the causes of WW2?
Treaty of Versailles, Economic Depression, Failure of Appeasement, Militarism of Germany and Japan, Failure of League of Nations
Prime Minister of Britain during the start of WW2.
Neville Chamberlain
First Countries to declare war.
United Kingdom and France
What was the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan called?
Axis Powers
German-Soviet pact that Germany broke by invading Russia.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Codename of the Axis Invasion of Soviet Union.
Operation Barbarossa
Battles in which the Red Army defeated Germany.
Battle of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk
Known in code as “Operation overlord”
Battle of Normandy
This country is where Normandy took place.
France
Year when Mussolini was removed from power.
1943
Name of the plane that carried the Hiroshima Bomb.
Enola Gay
Ordered the signing of Germany’s surrender.
Karl Donitz
Month when Hitler committed suicide.
April 1945
Name of the Nazi Trials.
Nuremberg Trials
End of WW2
September 2, 1945
The day allied forces invaded occupied France. (Give the date)
D-Day (June 6, 1944)
Country that Japan invaded in 1937.
China
The army which overthrew Berlin.
Russia
Name of an Jewish girl whose diaries were published after the war.
Anne Frank
Housed one Germany for every 10 Civilian.
Norway
Front where Germany suffered most of its lossed.
Eastern Front
First era-modern fighter to be used by the British Airforce during the war.
Hurricane
British invasion of Iceland.
Operation Fork
Countries that Russia invaded during the war.
Poland & Finland
People who survived both atomic bombs.
Hibakusha
Surprise aerial attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
When did the Pearl Harbor attack happen?
December 7, 1941
An act to provide for the national defense of the Philippines.
National Defense Act or Commonwealth Act No. 1
What is USAFFE?
United States Army Forces in the Far East.
Pagpapalakad sa mga sundalong Pilipino at Amerikano mula Mariveles, Bataan hanggang San Fernando, Pampanga.
Bataan Death March
When did the Battle of Midway happen?
June 3, 1942
WW2 Naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft.
Battle of Midway
When did the battle of Philippine Sea happen?
June 19, 1944
Naval battle between Japanese combined fleet and the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
Battle of the Philippine Sea
Decisive air and sea battle of WW2 that crippled the Japanese combined fleet.
Battle of Leyte Gulf
WW2 Battle fought between U.S. and Japanese Forces on Okinawa.
Battle of Okinawa
U.S. General who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in WW2, administered post-war Japan during the allied occupation that followed.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Prime Minister of Britain during WW2.
Winston Churchill
Emperor of japan
Hirohito
Chancellor and self-proclaimed Fuhrer (leader) of Germany.
Adolf Hitler
Navy Admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Yamamoto Isoroku
Fascist Prime Minister and dictator who ruled Italy.
Benito Mussolini
32nd President who led the country in WW2.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
General Secretary of the Communist Party.
Joseph Stalin
Authoritarian, Ultranationalist Political Ideology.
Fascism
Failed Coup d’ etat by Nazi Party.
Beer Hall Putsch / Munich Putsch
German word meaning “lightning war”, was Germany’s strategy.
Blitzkrieg
Agreement by Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Tripartite Act
Top-secret program to make the first atomic bombs.
Manhattan Project
Genocide of Jews during WW2
Holocaust
Japanese pilots who made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets.
Kamikaze
Series of Battle tanks fielded by the German Army.
Panzer
