WW2 Flashcards
Who are the axis?
German
Italy
Japan
pre war advancements
Italy reconquered ethiopia
Germany occupied Rineland (buffer zone)
Japan and chinese fight
Union of germany and familiar austria
Munich Pact
APEASEMENT
give hitler sudeit land if he chills
How did Hitler ignore apeasement?
Gets czechoslovakia with no retaliataion
How did germany trick russia?
Signed a non agression pact that split europe between the two of them
Operation barbosa was german invasion of USSR
What started the war
Germany invade poland after being told that his next move would be war
What is blitskreig and dunkirk?
Blitskreig was fast win by germany that stun france
and dunkirk was a evacuation of 338k troops from france locals helped FRANCE FELL
3 neutrality acts that tried to keep US neutrality
1935 - no selling weapons to nations at war
1937- cash and cary
1939 - sell war stuff to france and britain if they transport it themselves
Lend Lease
let warring nations borrow weapons and give $50 million to allies
War Powers Act
FDR can shit all over the 1st amendment, regulate industry (force factories to make weapons and cars), and allow a draft
War Production Board
oversaw convertion of car plants to tank plants and other vehicles
WW2 Revenue act
raise income tax and war bonds
Bataan Death march
80k ameriacn marched 60+ miles. Thousands died from exhaustion and execution
MIdway
US tunring point in Pacific theater
Island hopping campaign
slow US liberation of strategic islands but japanes would kamekaze
and capture of Saipan
Potsdan Declaration
Japana needs to surrender by august or they’ll get nuked
Legte Gulf
largest naval engagement ever
iwo jima
island wanted by US for base but nothing was build
Okinawa
bloodiest battler in pacific theater
Last island need to invade main japan
defensive triparti pact
germnay, italy and japan agree to help each other
