WW2 Study Guide Flashcards
Winston churchill
“never was so much owed to so few” Prime Minister
Charles de Gaulle
led free france against germany
Dwight Eisenhower
D-day strategizer
Hirohito
Emperor of Japan
Adolf Hitler
Evil man, main antagonist of ww2
Douglas MacArthur
Commanded allied forces in Asian Pacific
Benedito Mussolini
Jr. Partner of the Axis Powers
J. Robert Oppenhiemer
father of the atomic bomb
Erwin Rommel
German, “Desert Fox”
Franklin Roosevelt
you know this guy: president, new deal maker, etc.
Josef Stalin
Soviet revolutionary, Allie but lowkey an axis member but not
Paul Tibbets
Aircraft captain of Enola Gay: first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb
Hideki Tojo
war criminal, mastermind of japanese ww2 companionship
Harry Truman
ordered the and only dropping of atomic bombs
Isoroku Yamamoto
Admiral of japanese navy, pearl harbor strategist
Fascism
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement
Nazism
totalitarian government
Mein Kampf
Autobiographical book by Adolf Hitler, manifesto
appeasement
giving into an aggressor
azis powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
Isolationism
advocated for non involvement in european and asian affairs (confilts)
Third Reich
The third empire of Germany (nazi germany)
Munich conference
the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia.
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
agreement between biggest powers
Blitzkrieg
overwhelming superiority in combat power
Nagasaki, Hiroshima
only places to ever be bombed atomicly in ww2 (and ever)
Luftwaffe
Nazi Air weaponry, German air force
Pearl Harbor
US Naval base bombed by Japan to instigate US joining war
Aryan
German “pureblood”
Holocaust
1) Social Isolation
2) Forced Isolation
3) Final Solution
Kristallnacht
The night of broken glass, Organized destruction of jewish property
Ghetto
Forcing ALL jews into small area of cities
Final Solution
euphemism for the murder of entire jewish population: Genocide
Genocide
The mass killing of a group of people
D-Day
attack on normandy, dummy army
Kamikaze
Suicide Pilots
Manhattan Project
development of nuclear weapons
Swastika
nazi symbol
Enola Gay
Paul Tibbets, first aircraft to drop atomic bomb
Fuhrer
German word of Leader or Guide
Nuremberg trials
Trials for leaders who committed “crimes against humanity”
What countries were ruled by fascist dictators by the end of the 1930s
Spain, Italy, Germany
The earliest incident leading up to W2 in Asia was japan invading which country?
Manchuria
What two leaders secretly divided Poland amongst themselves and made a nonaggression pact?
Stalin and Hitler
What three factors kept countries from challenging the expansion of Axis Empires?
-Global Depression
-Memories of WW1
-THe belief in Isolationism
What happened at the munich Conference of 1936?
Hitler made a pledge of peace
Did Hitler keep his promise that he made at the Munich Conference
nope
Maginot Line and why it failed
defense that France made for its border, it wasn’t movable
D-day refers to whom invading whom?
England, US, and Canada invading Nazi france
German war strategy used to overwhelm armies
blitzkrieg
What is considered the major turning point if the war against Japan in the pacific
Battle of Midway
How many jews were put to death as a result of Hitler’s Final solution
around 6 million
Battle of the Bulge
Hitler’s failed last major offensive in Europe
The 3 blunders of Adolf Hitler
-Declaring War on the US
-Invasion of Russia
-Putting to many resources into the extermination of jews
Which country had the largest amount of jews killed in the Holocaust?
Poland
At which location did Operation Overlord take place? What was the name of the place? (hint d-day, hint- over 2,000 americans killed here)
Omaha Beach
Which country saw the most casualties during ww2?
USSR (Soviet Union)
What organization was created after WW2 to prevent another war from starting?
The United Nations
What battle cost over one million soldiers and put the germans on the defensive on the Russian Front?
Battle of Stalingrad
A
Battle of El Alamein, 1942: Allied victory
B
Battle ofTobruck: Axis Victory
C
Battle of Leningrad: Allied Victory
D
Battle of Berlin: Allied Victory
E
Auschwitz: largest death camp
AB
Battle of Stalingrad, turning point of war: Allied Victory
BC
Battle of Dunkirk, 300,000 soldiers rescued: Axis Victory
DE
D-Day, Normandy: Allied Victory
ABC
Battle of the Bulge: Allied Victory
AC
Neutral (no battle)
AD
Battle of Monte Casino: Allied Victory
Why was appeasement tried by the allies
it was tried in hope of avoiding war
why did appeasement fail
Allies kept giving hitler what he wanted
occasion 1
Hitler announces that he will no longer follow the treaty of Versailles
Occasion 2
Hitler is allowed to take rhineland
occasion 3
Anschluss is allowed to occur (the unitung of Austria with Germany)
occasion 4
Hitler is allowed to take sudetenland
occasion 5
Hitler is allowed to take all of Czechoslovakia
Occasion 6
Germany invades Poland (war begins)
Date of Occasion 1
March of 1935
Date of Occasion 2
March of 1936
Date of Occasion 3
March of 1938
Date of Occasion 4
September 1938
Date of Occasion 5
March 1939
Date of Occasion 6
September of 1939
