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WW2 Flashcards

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Causes

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Rebuilt German army
Occupation of Rhineland
Anschluss
Sudentenland
Appeasement
Munich conference
Nazis - Soviet non-aggression pact

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Anschluss

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Austria + Germany joined

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Sudentenland

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Germany took over Czechlovakia

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Appeasement

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Britain agreed to Hitlers demands

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Munich conference

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Hitler agreed not to take more of Czechlovakia + did it anyway within 6 months

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Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact

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Promised 10 years of peace + not helping eachothers enemies
Secret clause to partition Poland
1/9/1939 Germany invades Poland, WW2 begins

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Technology

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Sea-better submarines/torpedoes-US
Air-British spitfire + hurricane, German ME-UK
Land-German panzer tanks-Germany
Atomic bomb-Manhattan project bombed Hiroshima+Nagasaki-US

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Blitzkreig

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Tactic of surprise attack with heavy bombing by Luftwaffe followed by Panzer tanks then mobile infantry

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Invasion of Poland

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Blitzkreig
Luftwaffe destroyed most of Poland’s airforce, all transportation. Panzers cut off supplies + reinforcement
Defeated in 5 weeks so USSR invaded

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Invasion of France

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10/5/1940 Germany attacked Belgium, Netherlands+ France w/Blitzkreig. Sent Panzers through the Ardennes. British soldiers trapped @ Dunkirk + evacuated(operation Dynamo)
Germans occupied North France + puppet gov in South-Vinchy France

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Battle of Britain

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Constant dogfights, Germans attacked RAF bases for a month. Britain won by mid Sept because:
<>Germanys focus on London-time to regroup
<>Radar gave them warning
<>Spitfires better than MEs
<>MEs had to refeul in Germany

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The Blitz

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Luftwaffe bombed cities at night with imcindiery bombs for 8 months targeting ports, power stations + factories

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Life in wartime

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Children sent to countryside
More women entered workforce
Rationing

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Invasion of USSR

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Operation barbadosa
Germany=>Blitzkreig attacking major cities. Red army=>scorched earth tactics. German’s unprepared for Winter as petrol+Germans froze+engines wouldn’t start. Winter 1942 Russia cut off German supplies + Feb Germany surrendered

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US enters war

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7/12/1942 Pearl Harbour. US + Japan immediately at war

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