ww2 test Flashcards
3 German POW camps
Robinson
Chaffee
dermott
4 main causes of ww2
hitler- vowed to defy the treaty of Versailles and restore Germany
expansionism- Germany, Italy and Japan began expanding their empires by overtaking countries
appeasement- meeting demands of a hostile power to avoid war
treaty of Versailles- Germans resented treaty and its harshness
3 advancements in ww2
- Manhattan project
- radar and sonar
- penicillin
Maurice footsie Britt
- served in North Africa and Italy
- congressional Medal of Honor
- lt governor
William Darby
army ranger battalion
from fort smith
Paul Douglas
highly decorated fighter pilot
from Greene county
pierce McKinnon
shot down more that 20 enemy planes
Woodrow Crockett
Tuskegee airmen
Munich agreement
England agrees that Germany could have sudentland of hitler didn’t take over more land
appeasement
meeting demands of a hostile power to avoid war
Munich conference
meeting between Germany and Great Britain
what started ww2?
the invasion of Poland
- used blitzkrieg
- sept 1, 1939
non-aggression pact… who signed it with Germany?
Soviet Union
what 2 things stopped hurlers defense in the Battle of Britain?
radar and enigma
name of British Air Force
Royal Air Force
name of German Air Force
Luftwaffe
2 Japanese internment/relocation camps
- Jerome
- rowher
island hopping
- establishing a line of overlapping island bases
- capture key islands until Japan is in range
blitzkrieg
lightning warfare
VE Day
victory in Europe
kamikaze
Japanese suicide planes
what 2 places were bombed in Japan?
- Nagasaki
- Hiroshima
allied powers
Britain
Russia
U.S.
who was on axis powers?
Germany
Italy
Japan
Tuskegee airmen
black group of pilots that escorted bombers into war
3 reasons why the U.S. stayed isolated
- U.S. citizens felt like they were dragged into ww1
- felt they should focus on domestic problems
- congress passed neutrality acts in 1930s
Marshall plan
George Marshall offered economic aid to all European countries regardless of what side they were on during the war
williwaw war
conflict in aluetian islands in Alaska
Arkansas national guard served in it
commander of allied forces in Europe
Eisenhower
commander of allied forces in pacific
Douglas mcarthur
baton death match
- forced march of over 50 miles where Japanese treated captives terribly
- killed 16,000 of 70,000 prisoners
what made Japan mad at us?
we cut off their oil supply
Doolittle raid
- Doolittle bombed Tokyo and 4 other Japanese cities
- Japan went into China killing 250,00 civilians to look for doolittles men
War production board
directed the manufacture of wartime supplies
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
“a day which will live in infamy”
Battle of Britain (matching)
- nazis bombed Britain hoping to force them into withdrawing from the war
- first battle fought over control of air
Stalingrad (matching)
Luftwaffe conduct nightly raids , soviets launch counter offensive
- trapped Germans inside city
- Germany now on defensive
battle of the bulge(matching)
last German offensive
midway(matching)
turning point of pacific war
U.S. broke Japanese code and knew of attack
allies launch counter attack
iwojima/Okinawa
in Japan
bloodiest battles of war
land battles
Japan put up desperate fight
d-day(matching)
Land sea air battle
significance- Germany retreats eastward
allied troops secured beaches by end of the day
what events from ww2 have changed our world and our way of thinking?
holocaust- shows what a bad person in power can do; racism; communist is bad
Pearl Harbor- one day can change the fate of a country or war; how important oil is; us joined war; aggressiveness
should we have dropped the atomic bomb?
1) pro- showed Japan we weren’t kidding; revolutionary weapon
2) pro- made the war end quicker; less deaths than ground war
desert fox
Erwin rommels; sent by hitler to defeat afrika korps and allies
