Ww2 Flashcards
(31 cards)
Date of Pearl Harbor
How many planes/ boats/ people
Over 180 planes
10-12 battle battleships
2000 Americans
Who is only person to vote against ww2
Jenner rankin
When did Japan attack phillipines
Same day as Pearl Harbor dec 7 1941
Who was general in charge of phillipines
Douglas MacArthur
When did FDR order MacArthur to escape to the Philippines
March 1942
When did we surrender in the Philippines
April 9 1942
Historical significance
Largest take of prisoners
Battan death match was when
April 1942
June 42 battle of midway
Operation MAJIc
First major major battle
Battle of Guadalcanal August 42
First land battle
Oct. 44 Leyte golf
Largest navel battle finds 2/3rd of soldiers dead
Feb 45 Iwo Jima what is the mountain
What is the book
Surabatchi
Flags of our fathers
When was the fire bombing of Tokyo
How many dead
March 10 1945
How many city’s did we firebomb in the summer of -945
60
April 25 last island before main land of Japan- kamikaze
100,000 Japanese dead 12000 American soldiers
Okinawa
Month and year we land in Africa
Nov. 42
Name of operation landing in Africa
Operation torch
Who was dessert fox
Erwin Rommel
Who leads in Tunisia
Eisenhower
July 43 the Op. Name for Sicily
Operation huskey
What year and month did we invade Italy
43
Date of d-day
June 6 1944
Op. Name of d-day
Operation overlord
Worst battle in history
Stalingrad
Date of the end of the war in Europe
April 1945
