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WW2 Flashcards

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Hitler’s failed coupe (1)

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hitler’s attempt to overthrow republic

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Mein Kampf: my struggle (4)

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  • hitler’s book
  • political ambitions
  • plan to overthrow republic
  • hatred for jews
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Fascism (2)

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  • political party

- authority in one person

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Nazism (3)

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  • political party
  • Hitler/Germany
  • Nationalism
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Japan invades Manchuria (3)

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  • oil reserves
  • empire building
  • install a puppet government
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Burning the Reichstag (3)

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  • government building in Germany
  • communists blamed
  • begins Hitler’s campaign of fear
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Enabling Acts (2)

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  • end democracy-begin autocracy/dictatorship

- hitler becomes dictator

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Night of long knives

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-hitler eliminates his opponents

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Mussolini invades ethiopia (2)

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  • league of nations does nothing

- ethiopia has mines for resources

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Munich Conference/Appeasement (2)

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  • appeasement: giving something to satisfy someone

- Chamberlain of Britain gives Hitler Czech land

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Molstov-Ribbentrop Pact (2)

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  • non-aggression pact

- secret pact to divide poland

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Polish Corridor (4)

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  • Treaty of Versailles had granted Poles access to sea at Danzig
  • Poland signed nonaggression pact with Germany in 1934
  • Blitzkreig on Sep 1
  • one month later, Germany and Russia each have 1/2 of poland, Britain and France prepare for war
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The Gleiwitz Incident (4)

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  • germans dressed like poles take over a german radio station
  • broadcast an anti-german message
  • germans attack poland in 1939
  • russia attacks from east
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Germans attack Scandinavian Countries (3)

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  • Sweden and Norway fall in 3 days
  • airfield and naval bases
  • iron ore available for germany
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Germany and Maginot Line (3)

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  • germany moves west
  • french establish Maginot line
  • Hitler goes North through Belgium
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France falls to Germany (9)

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-six weeks
-Germany blitzkrieg overwhelms France
-Italy moves in from south
-Vichy Regime
^^Germans get 2/3 of France, Pertain to hold South but sells land to hitler
-French freedom fighters try to fight Hitler
^resistance government known as free french
^fought off the grid-underground
^Led by Charles DeGaulle

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Rescue at Dunkirk

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inspires allies for the coming days of war

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Battle of Britain (9)

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-57 nights of bombing
-Chamberlain out and Churchill in
-Luftwaffe vs. RAF (royal air force)
^luftwaffe almost double the size of RAF
-RAF helped by the “Dowding System”
^RADAR: radio direction finding and ranging
^Ultra: picks up radio calls
-Dissention in Germany and British spirit owns the day

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USSR targeted (4)

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  • USSR secured non aggression pact with Japan and Finland
  • Hitler is upset: unable to take Britain, so he attacks russia
  • wants rich oil reserves of the Ukraine
  • Result: stalemate between Germany and Russia
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Good Neighbor Policy in US (3)

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  1. foreign policy toward countries of latin america
  2. Goal: to create economic policy for USA
  3. Goal: to change the way USA was looked upon in latin america
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Lend Lease Act - USA (2)

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  • lend or lease equipment to countries fighting the aggressors
  • gives US time to prepare for war
22
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Selective Service Act- USA

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-first military draft during peace time

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Atlantic Charter - USA (5)

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  • FDR and Churchill meet
  • Terms:
    1. US Navy ships will escort British vessel carrying Lend Lease Aid
    2. Purpose of allies will be to defeat Nazis
    3. Made plans to rebuild Europe after war
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Us put embargo on oil to Japan

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japan begins to plan Pearl Harbor

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Japan and the Pacific Theatre (3)

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  • Japan wants an empire led by General Tojo and General Hirohito
  • Japan wants an empire
  • need natural resources
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Pearl Harbor (3)

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-December 7, 1941
-unexpected: Japan was in negotiations with US when bombing took place
^also unexpected because of US arrogance

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Doolittle’s raid April 1942 (6)

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  • led by Colonel James H. Doolittle
  • FDR’s attempt to bounce back from Pearl Harbor
  • Two accomplishments of the raid
    1. first successful attack on mainland japan
    2. inspired allied forces and americans at home
  • Led to Admiral Kumamoto’s failure
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Island Hopping Strategy (8)

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-used by the US
-first allied offensive is at Guadalcanal
-Japanese call it the “island of death”
-battle of Midway
^under direction of Admiral Chester Nimitz
-Midway is turning point in war
^Japanese unable to get airfields
^US Navajo code breakers intercepted location, date, and time of Japanese attack

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Kamikazes (7)

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-US faces off with Kamikazes
^Kamikaze means divine wind
^took an oath od unyielding allegiance to the emperor
-Allies win at Iwo Jima 1945
-Knock out Japanese Radar Defense
-Virtually eliminate Japanese threat
-First flag to fly over japanese home territory

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Allies prevail in North Africa (3)

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  • British General Montgomery wins at El Alamein, Tunisia
  • American General Eisenhower wins in Algeria
  • German General Rommel’s Africa Korps defeated and Germany’s fighting spirit weakened
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Germany loses in Russia (7)

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-why stalingrad?
^want one front war
^oil for german war machine
^propaganda coup for Hitler over stalin
-German General Paulus failed to take Stalingrad
-Winter weather took a toll on Germans
-Loss at Stalingrad put Germans on the defensive

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Mussolini defeated in Germany (3)

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  • King Victor Emmanuel has Mussolini arrested
  • Allies enter Rome-June 1944, but do not control. until May 1945
  • Mussolini shot and Hanged
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D-Day Invasion (7)

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-June 6, 1944: operation overlord
-largest land and sea attack in history
-top secret operation led by Eisenhower
-launched onto Normandy coast
^Not Calais
-with the help of General Patton the allies secure the beach and liberate France
-Get supplies in France for a final push

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Battle of the Bulge (3)

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  • Hitler’s live or die move in the army
  • Germany fails: snow hampers their movement
  • Germany fails: had no reinforcements
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Germany surrenders (4)

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  • allies and soviets surround in Berlin
  • Hitler commits suicide April 30, 1945
  • May 9, 1945: VE Day- Victory in Europe- germans surrender
  • FDR dead, new president Truman accepts news of allied victory
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Victory in the Pacific (6)

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-victory at the leyte eliminates Japanese fleet as fighting force
-Truman decides to use atomic bomb
^manhattan project under leadership of Groves and Oppenheimer
-1st bomb on Hiroshima - August 6, 1945
-3 days later second bomb hits Nagasaki
-Japanese surrender - Sept 2 on USS Missouri

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