WWII P1 Flashcards
Controlling all aspects of life
Totalitarian
Giving in to demands to keep peace
Appeasement
Political party that believes race or ethnicity is more important then the individual
Fascist
Swift, all out style of military attack
Lightning war
Blitzkrieg
Believing that the US should go to war
Interventionism
Believing that the US should stay out of war
Isolationism
Technology allowing detection of submerged objects by means of sound waves
Sonar technology
Surrender without concessions
Unconditional surrender
Il duce
The leader
Mussolini
Nazi
National socialist german workers party
Aryan
Hitlers master race
Blood hair blue eyes german
Von Hindenburg
Prez of Germany before hitler
Mein kampf
My struggle by Hitler
Fuhrer
Hitler
Supreme leader of the third reich
Third reich
Third Government
Under hitlers control
“Big Lie”
How hitler view christianity and democracy because they lied all the time
Anschluss
Union of Germany and Austria
Luftwaffe
German air force
Open door policy
Equal trading access with china
Pearl S. Buck
Author of good earth, sympathy from china routed from the love of her
Neutrality act
Prohibiting sale of weapons to nations at war, kept Americans from traveling on ships to waring countries, passed after Italy took Ethiopia
Maginot Line
A system of heavily armed steel and concrete bunkers built after WWI, stretches 100 miles along the french german border, from Belgium to Switzerland. Germans attacked from behind and were defeated
RAF
British Royal Air Force
Sea Lion
German plan for attacking Great Britain
Destroyer for bases
US gave Great Britain ships and in return they got bases in the Atlantic
Conscription
Draft in US before war
Greer, Kearny, REUBAN JAMES
Destroyers destroyed by German subs (U boats)
Ultra
Decoder of german messages during battle of britain
Radar
Detected planes
Sonar
Detected ships and subs
Magic
Message decoder of Japanese messages
Allies (leaders and countries)
Great Britain- Churchill
France- Charles DeGaulle
US- FDR
China- Mao Zedong
Axis (leaders and countries)
Germany- Adolf Hitler
Italy- Mussolini
Japan- Hirohito
What Country was with Axis then switched to Allies
USSR
Attack weapons
German panzer-tanks, US tanks, planes, ships
Defense weapons
Radar, sonar, anti aircraft guns
Eisenhower
Supreme Allie Commander, in charge of D Day,
SS nickname
Black shirts
Good Neighbor Policy- reasons for
Reason US wanted to be a good neighbor to the countries by them before ones across ocean, FDRs pledge- respect rights of others, initiated by prez hoover- try to get along. So we could show our dedication to get along
Yamamoto
Japan
Planned attack on Pearl Harbor- reluctant warrior
MacArthur
US
Developed island hopping; accepted surrender of Japan
Patton
US
Nickname- “Old Blood and Guts”
Goering (Goring)
Germany
In charge of Luftwaffe
Nimitz
US
Proved value of magic
Barbie
Germany
Head of Gestapo- one of the people who tortured people
Rommel
Germany
Nickname desert fox
Yamashita
Japan
Tiger of Malaya
Bradley
US
Led troops on Omaha and Utah beaches
Montgomery
Great Britain
Defeated Rommel in Africa
Arnold
US
Defender of women air service pilots
Franco
Fascist military leader, attempted to overthrow Spanish government in 1936, aided by Germany and Italy, conservative, pro anarchy, rebel, spanish army
Non-aggression pact
USSR and Germany promise not to attack each other hitler lies, they also promise to divide up poland
D-Day (date; codename; what the attack enabled)
Operation Over lord
Changed course of war
June 6,1944
Pushed back Germany. A stronger hold for the allies
Why did the US not pay attention to hitler before 1934?
He had to focus on getting out of the Great Depression not hitlers problems
Causes of WWI
Treaty of Versailles because Germany is so down
Fascist Aggression- 3 in Europe 1 in Asia
Appeasement- not stopping Hitler
Lindenbergh
Isolationist
Ford
Gave money to Germany
Paid the elders of Zion to sign on protocols that were printed and distributed in the US
Lend-Lease
Proposed by FDR after the 1940 election which gave hime the right to sell, lend, or lease military supplied to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of US”
Selective Training and service act
In September 1940, prez Roosevelt sign act establishing a peace time draft in the US
Pearl harbor- date
December 7,1941
Japan attacked US, brought US into war, greatest military disaster till 9/11
What event started WWII in Europe
Germanys invasion of poland
Stalingrad (nickname)
Operation Barbarossa
USSR Vs. Germany
Stalingrad, Moscow, Leningrad
14 mil died turning point germany is defeated by general winter
Atlantic charter
FDR lent the USSR supplies and met British prime minister Churchill on a boat off Newfoundland to develop a post war strategy
Jews
Blamed for economic problems
Why Germany takes Paris- French response
Wanted to save their city from carnage. Because hitler had done that in the past
Advantage Great Britain had over Germany
Better skilled planes men
Invasion of Ethiopia by Italy
First invasion before poland
Spanish civil war
Franco, fascists taking over
Italy and Germany helped because political ties and they wanted to test out their new technology
El Alamein
Montgomery defeated Rommel in Africa. Showed Germany wasnt as strong as expected
Bombing of london(why daylight bombings stopped)
Because Germanys 3-1 air force was no match for the skill of the RAF that would shot them down so night time to keep from being seen and be more destructive
1936 olympics
Jessie Owens out does the aryans
US beats Germany
Hitler(what he wanted to study; justification for 1934 murders; third reach; who compared to; mein kampf; reasons for rise to power)
Wanted to study art
Said murders were to better Germany and unit leaders behind Hitler
Compared to Genghis Kahn
My struggle- by Hitler
Rose to power because bad economy good orator-how he spoke enabled people
