WWII Flashcards
Define : Appeasement
The policy of giving in to Hitler in order to keep peace
Define : Fighter Command
Part of the Royal Air Force (RAF) that fought in the Battle of Britain
Define : Overlord
Codename for D Day
Define : Spitfire
British plane that fought in the Battle of Britain
Define : Radar
Early warning technology that helped the RAF in the Battle of Britain
Define : Axis
Alliance between Italy, Germany and Japan
Define : Operation Dynamo
Codename for Dunkirk evacuation
Define : Propaganda
One sided messages such as those designed to keep up morale during WW2
Define : Barbarossa
Codename for German invasion of USSR
Define : Sealion
Codename for the German invasion of Britain
Define : Blitz Spirit
A propaganda message that suggested that Britons were coping well with the Blitz
Define : Stalingrad
The USSR defeated the Germans here: a key turning point
Who was…? : Adolf Hitler
Leader of Germany from 1933-45
Who was…? : Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister from 1940-45
Who was…? : Hugh Dowding
Leader of the RAF
Who was…? : Harry Truman
President of USA who ordered atomic bombs to be dropped
Who was…? : Neville Chamberlain
British PM associated with the appeasement of Hitler
Who was…? : Hermann Goering
Leader of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe)
Who was…? : Dwight Eisenhower
US General in charge of D Day
What happened in…? : 1933
Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
What happened in…? : 1939 (Sept. 3rd)
Britain declared war on Germany
What happened in…? : 1940 (May - June)
Evacuation of Dunkirk
What happened in…? : Summer of 1940
Battle of Britain
What happened in…? : (Sept.) 1940-41
Blitz German bombing of London
What happened in…? : 1941
Germany invades USSR in June; Japan attack Pearl Harbor Dec 7th
What happened in…? : (June) 1944
D Day: Allied invasion of France
What happened in…? : (Aug.) 1945
Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki so ending war
