WWII Part Two Flashcards
Following the success of Axis armies in Europe, and the Pacific, 1942 will see the____
Halt of Axis advances
1st Japanese invasion of Australia stopped at the ___ in May 1942
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Midway-June 1942
Yammomoto returned to the western Pacific to finish what he’d hoped to accomplish during the Pearl Harbor Attack
——Destroy U.S Carrier Fleet.
American carriers surprised Yammomotos fleet by attacking ___
3 of the 4 carriers
After the failure at midway, Japan attempted to invade Australia in the spring of 1942
-August-Battle of Guadalcanal
Japanese forced obliterated.
In North Africa, Rommel’s Afrika Korps will be defeated on October of 1942
-El Alamein
Battle of Stalingrad
-The Germans began attacking the town of Stalingrad on the Volga River in September of 1941
In December, the Soviets launched a counter-attack which trapped over
200,000 Germans in the town.
By February of 1943,
all Germans in the city surrender
Approximately ___Germans and as many as___Soviets are killed, wounded or captured
500,000
2.1 million
-1943 will end with the Allies making gains___
against the Axis Powers
After defeat at Stalingrad,
the Soviets will begin push the Germans out of Russia
German and Italian forces had been defeated and overwhelmed in
North Africa
Allied forced invaded Sicily and Italy,
but had been stopped by the Germans in Northern Italy.
MUSSOLINI deposed, but later rescued by
German commandos and installed as a puppet leader of northern Italy
Japanese forces had been stopped at ___
Burma
In 1944, the Allies will gain even more ___
momentum against Axis forces
Soviet forces push the Germans into ___
Eastern Europe, ad recapture all of Soviet Territory lost.
The Stalemate in Northern Italy
Continued
Allied commander
Dwight d. Eisenhower.
On June 6, 1944, British and American forces launched the
D-Day Invasion
By August of 1944,___
Alied forces will liberate Paris
As the year began to draw to a close, the western Allies were along the border of ____, while the Red Army was on ____
France and Germany,
Germaine’s eastern boarder
September, 1944-Operation Market Garden
-British and American forces attempt to invade Germany through Holland
-German c forces stop Allied advances
By December of 1944, the Germans launch a surprise attack on American forces
the Battle of the Bulge
After some success, ____
German forces were stoppers
-Douglas McArther devised a plan to defeat the Japanese
Island Hopping-Taking only the Japanese held islands necessary to bomb Japan
through out 1944, U.S Marines will begin to assault islands in bloody fighting
-June, 1944-Saipan
December 1944-The Philliphines
Douglas McArther-I have Returned
End of the war
-By April of 1945, Germany was being invaded by Soviet troops in the East, and American troops in the West
-Berlin was surrounded by the Soviets -Adolf Hitler will commit suicide in his bunker. -May 1945- Germany surrenders
February, 1945- the Battle of Iwo Jima
-Marines raise the flag on the Mount Sarabachi
-Kamikazeh
June 1945-The Battle of Okinawa
U.S Soldiers encounter 1st Japanese biome island populations
Many commit suicide
following the Battle of Okinawa,
The United States now had the airfield to bomb Japan at will
Anylist speculate that an invasion of Japan would lead to the deaths of over ___
100,000 Americans and millions of Japanese.
The New President of the United States, _____ faced a difficult decision
Harry Truman (President Roosevelt died in March 1945)
On Truman’ orders, the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
-90,000 people were killed instantly
-70,000 would later die of radiation sicknesS
-60,000 die instantly, with 20,000 dying later.
Following the 2nd attack, Emperor Hirohito will broadcast the Japanese ___
Intent to surrender to the United States
World War II is the most devastating war in human history
Over 61,000 allied dead
Over 12,000,000 Axis dead
As the victors asses the cost,
One of the most horrifying crimes against humanity will be revealed
Europe is devastated by World War II
-The Holocaust
The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States will divide Europe for the ____
Next 50 years
Land battle of Papa New Guinie lead to the____
alliteration of Japenese-Guatemala canal
Architect of island hopping-
Douglas Macarther
German surprise attack on American Forces
Battle of the Bulge
failed American and British attempt to invade Germany by going through Belgium and Holland
Market Garden
Japenese cities attacked with an atomic bomb
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
The Leader of the free French forces during WW2
Charles Degaulle
Code word for the allied invasion of France
D-Day
Nick name of the two atomic bombs-
fat man and little boy
marked a turning point for Rommel Africa Korpse
battle of El Alimein
Landing crafts built in New Orleans___
Haigens Boats
responsible for overrunning Berlin-
Soviet Union
