ww2 Flashcards
What triggers WW2
Germany attacks poland in sept 1939
How was Germany deterred from taking poland
Brits and French made a treaty with poland
What becomes the first Jewish Ghetto
Warsaw poland
Why does soivets go on the offensive in early 1940
brits and france were too focused on Germany
result of Soviets attacking finland in 1939
Finns fight back and against them because stalin already killed everyone
why didnt French attack germany when germany when germany was attacking Poland
They set up major defensive walls in the Maginot Line
How did Germans intially trick the Brits and french
they swung under the schlieggen plan and attack them from underneath
where did he main attack from the germans on allies come from
the aragon forrest and go underneath them
What happens at Dunkirk
got 338k allied troop were evacuated off the beach
French response post Dunkirk
French govt declared Paris an open city and fled
Who is Prime minsister post French surrender in Paris
Marshal Henri Petain who was a verdun guy
When did French surrender
June 1940 in a railcar
what happens to southern france post french surrendering
Petain runs south france under his rule, vichi was the ruling city
Who was the opposing force of Petain
Charles Degaulle and his Free French government
name of german airforce
Luftwaffe
Battle of Britian was what
an airbattle between RAF and Luftwaffe
British big airforce advantage
Radar
Who was the head of the German army in Egypt
Rommel named the Desert Fox
What was Operation Barbarossa
Hitlers plan to overtake Moscow
When did Operation Barbarossa start
June 22 1941, very late
When was the turning point of WWII
1942
What was the turning point in N africa
el Alamaiin
Turning point in Europe in WWII
StalingradW
Who led the stalin army in stalingrad
Zhukov and Chuikov
who was the germany stalingrad general
von paulus
How did usa get involved with germany war
After Pearl harbour, we decl war on Japan and Germany declared war on us.
When do the allies take The Sicily
July 1943
What happens to Mussolini when Allies take Sicily
Mussolini is forced out of power and into a prison
Battle of Kursk
Largest Tank Battle ever
What was the last german attack on the eastern front
Kursk
Normandy invasion was when
June 6 1944
What is SHAEF
Esienhower acting as leader of the allies
What were the casualities of Normandy
11,000
who tried to assassinated Hitler
Claus Von Satauffenberg
who was sasauffenberg
he was a war verteran and tried to kill hitler
Hitlers Reaction to assassination attempt
He established the Gestapo secret police and killed 1000 suspects
Final battle of WWII
battle of Berlin in 1945
how many people died in the war
80 mil
what division was french nazi
Charlamean
who lost highest percentage of people
poland
Russians view of Jewish
They saw them as foreign and not real citizens
What is yiddish
mix of german and hebrew language
What is a Einsatzgruppen
Mobile killing units of germany to kill jews
Who did the Einsatzgruppen round up
Intellectuals teachers preist jews and political figures
What did germans use to kill jews in showers
Zyklon B
Main death camps
Aushwitz, Dachau, Bergen Belsen, Treblinka, Mauthausen, Sobibor, Buchenwald
who comes with the final solution
Heydrich
