29.2 Flashcards
(128 cards)
1
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What did Germany reveal when they invaded Poland?
A
The enormous power of Hitler’s Blitzkrieg
2
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What does Blitzkrieg mean?
A
Lightning war
3
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What did Blitzkrieg use on the enemy?
A
- Advances tanks
- Airpower tech
4
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What did Luftwaffe bomb?
A
- Air fields
- Factories
- Towns
- Cities
- Troops
- Civilians
5
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What does Luftwaffe mean?
A
German air force
6
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Poland was forced to surrender after…
A
German tanks and troops forced in to Poland
7
Q
Germans troops attacks from…
A
West
8
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Stalin attacked from…
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East
9
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What happened a month after stalin and germ invaded?
A
Poland was gone
10
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What did Stalin force Baltic States to create?
A
Bases in
- Estonia
- Latvia
-Lithuania
11
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What is another country the Soviets seized a part of?
A
Finland
12
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What did the invasion of Finland cause?
A
Still unsuccessful resistance
13
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Who hunkered down behind Maginot Line during the first Winter?
A
A few… soldiers
- British
- French
14
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What did a few reporters call the “war” of the people hunkered down behind the Maginot Line?
A
The phony war
15
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What did Hitler launch in 1940?
A
Blitzkrieg against Norway and Denmark (both fell soon after)
16
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After Norway and Denmark fell where did Hitler forces go?
A
- Netherlands
- Belgium
17
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What countries did Germ attack in May and how?
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- Britain and France
- Attacked through Ardennes Forest in Belgium
18
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Who trapped retreating British forces?
A
- Nazi Army
- English Channel
19
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What did Britain send across the English Channel?
A
All available
- Naval vessels
- Merchant ships
- Ect.
20
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Why was British supplies sent across the channel?
A
To get soldiers off the beach and then they landed in Dunkirk and 300,000 british troops were safe
21
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What did Germany trapping Britain do?
A
Boosted British morale
22
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What happened while France was headed towards Paris?
A
Italy declared war on France
23
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When did France surrender to Italy?
A
June 22nd, 1940
24
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Germany forced france to sign and where…
A
Surrender documents in the same spot that Germ signed armistice after WW1
25
Germany took over...
Northern France
26
What did Germany do with southern france?
Created a puppet state with Vichy and the capital
27
What did some French officers do after the take over of France?
Went to England and created a gov - in - exile
28
Who led the gov in exile and what did they do?
- Charles de Gaulle
- They worked to free\liberate the French by using Guerrilla tactics against Germany
29
Where did Britain stand alone after the fall of France?
Western Europe
30
Who replaced Neville Chamberlain as PM?
Winston Churchill
31
What was Operation Sea Lion?
What Hitler called his plan to invade France
32
What did Hitler launch against Britain?
Huge air strikes
33
What did Germany do In August 1940?
(England's south coast)
Made daily bombing attacks against England's South Coast
34
What two air forces battled for a month
- Luftwaffe
- Britain's royal air force
35
After the 1 month air battle how did Hitler switch tactics?
He started bombing other countries like London
36
When was the first bombing on London?
September 7th 1940
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How long did these bombing attack in London go on for?
57 straight nights they slowed down but still continued in May
38
What were these bombings in London known as?
The Blitz and most of london was destroyed and many lives were lost
39
What did London's Parliament still do during the bombings?
They med and civilians kept on with their lives
40
Civilians went in bunkers at night what did London's king and queen do?
When in the bunkers with the civilians to show support
41
When did bombings on London continue to?
May 1941
42
What could Hitler not gain?
Air superiority
43
Was Operation Sea Lion a success?
No
44
What did Mussolini order in September 1940?
Forces from Italy's North African Colony (Libya and Egypt)
45
What did Britain Repulse?
Invaders so Hitler sent his most Brilliant commanders (Erwin
Rommel) to North Africa
46
What was Rommel know as?
The Desert Fox
47
What was Rommel's sting of success timeline?
1941 - 42
48
Where did Rommel push Britain back to?
Cairo, Egypt
49
Where did Italy invade in October 1940?
Greece
50
What did Germany do because there was stiff resistance from Greece?
Sent help again
51
After Italian victory what two countries were added to the Axis powers?
- Greece
- Yugoslavia
52
1941 Axis powers and their allies controlled most of...
Europe
53
After German failure in Brit where was Hitlers new target?
The Soviet Union
54
What does nullified mean?
Made invalid
55
What did Hitler do in June 1941
(n-s pact)
Nullified the N - S Pact
56
What did Hitler want to crush?
Communism in Europe and defeat Stalin
57
How many soldiers invaded the SU?
3 million
58
What did Stalin lose do to Purges
Many top officers
59
How many soldiers did the SU lose?
2.5 million
60
What did the Soviets destroy just to keep them out of the enemies hands?
Their own belongings
61
What "belongings" did the Soviets destroy?
- Factories
- Farm Equipment
- Burnt crops
(Germany was still too strong)
62
What did the Nazi's want to take in autum?
(2 countries)
- Moscow
- Leningrad
63
What was Hitler not prepared for?
(season)
"General Winter" and the temp dropped to -40 degrees
64
What happened to thousands of German soldiers during "General Winter"
They froze to death
65
What started in September 1941?
(siege)
2.5 year long siege for Leningrad started
66
What was food rationed to during the winter?
2 pieces of bread a day
67
Citizens were so starving that they were willing to eat what?
Wallpaper because the paste that glues wallpaper to the wall had potato flour in it
68
Where did stalin beg Brit to open a front?
Western Europe
69
What two countries did the Japanese military conquere?
- Asia
- Pacific
70
What did the "new order" grow out of?
Hitlers radical obsessions
71
What did Hitler set up while forces were taking over Europe?
A puppet government
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Who was Hitler puppet government peopled by?
Aryans
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Hitler and his followers believed that Aryans were...
The superior race
74
Who was considered the inferior race?
Easter slavs
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Slavs were shoved aside to make room for?
Aryans
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What did Nazi's see occupied land as?
Economic resources to be looted
77
Nazi's stripped nations of?
- Works of art
- Factories
- Other resources
78
What did Nazi's do to members of resistance movments?
- Shot
- Tourchered
79
Where did Nazi's send many Jews in the 1930s?
Concentration Camps
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What were concentration camps?
Detention centers for people considered enemies of the state
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Who did Nazi's force to be slave laborors?
- Polish
- Jews
- Soviets
- Political opponents
82
How did prisoners die?
- Starved
- Worked to death
- Disease
- Harsh elements
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Who did Hitler urge people to kill?
"Racially inferior" parties mainly European Jews
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Who were some of the other people Hitler urged others to kill?
- Slavs
- Romans
- Homosexuals
- Disabled
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Where did Nazi's force the Jews in Poland to live in 1939?
Ghettos
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What were Ghettos?
Sections of cities where Jewish people are confined
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What did German leaders devise in 1941?
A plan for the "Final solution of the Jewish problem" which was the genocide of all European Jews
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What did Hitler create in poland?
6 special death camps that he sent his 'undesirables" to
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Who did the camps kill?
- Men
- Women
- Children
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What happened to the men and the women?
They were seperated which caused children to be separated from their parents
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Who were targets of immediate killings?
- Young
- Elderly
- Sick
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Where were some of these murder victims going to be sent to be murdered?
"Shower chambers" where they were gassed
93
What were the others who weren't killed used for?
Medical experiments
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How many Jews were murdered by 1945?
6 million (Holocaust)
- 6 million others were killed as well
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What was happening in the Warsaw ghetto in July 1942
Polish Jews were being sent to the Treblinka death camp (5,000 each day)
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What did Jews do in Spring 1943?
They took over Ghettos
- Stole guns
- Created bombs to damage Nazi forces
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When did Nazi's regain control of Ghettos?
May 16th
98
Who hid Jews and where?
Italians in their villages
99
What did Denmark and Bulgaria do?
Saves almost all of their Jewish population
100
What did the Vichy gov do?
Helped ship thousands of Jews to camps
101
What did the Western Countries do?
Sent Jews to camps because of their ban on immigration
102
What did Japan do to help countries "escape the Western colonial rule?"
Conquered colonies
103
What was the real reason for Japans help to free countries form WP?
Building their empire in Asia
104
Who did Japan treat with brutality?
- Chinese
- Filipino
- Malaysians
105
The Japanese killed civilians though...
(parts of a country)
East and southeast asia
106
What did Japan do with their new countries?
- Took Food\crops
- Destroyed cities and towns
- Made local slave laborers
107
At first Japanese were welcomes as...
Liberators and now they were hated
108
Nationalist wage what against japan and where?
- Guerrilla warfare
- Philippines
- Indochina
109
What did FDR look for ways around and why?
Neutrality acts so he could send ships to britain because they stood alone against Hitler
110
What did FDR do in March 1941?
Convinced congress to pass the Lend - Lease Act
111
What did the Lend - Lease Act allow?
Roosevelt to sell\lend war materials to "any country who is vital to the defense of the us" but the US wouldn't join the war
112
The us was the...
Arsenal for democracy
113
What did FDR and CH issue in August 1941?
Atlantic Charter
114
What did the charter set goals for?
The final destruction of the Nazi tryrany
115
What did the Charter promise?
- Support to right of people who choose the form of gov they will all live under
- Permanent system of General security
116
What did Japan see the war as and what resources did they want?
A chance to grab European possessions in Southeast Asia (rich resources)
- Oil
- Rubber
- Tin
117
Where did Japan advance in 1940?
French indochina and Dutch east indies
118
How did US try stopping Japan's aggression?
Banning the sale of iron, steel, and oil to Japan
119
What did Japan see US ban on supplies as?
A move against Japan's influence
120
What did Japanese extreme militarists (General Tojo Hideki) hope to do?
Expand Japans empire
121
Who was getting in the was of Japans expansion?
The US
122
What did General Tojo order?
A surprise attack against the US
- December 7th 1941 Japanese airplanes bombed pear harbor
123
How many died at Pearl Harbor?
2,400 and ships and aircrafts were destroyed
124
What did FDR ask Congress to do after Pearl Harbor?
Declare war on Japan
125
What happened on December 11th?
Germany, Italy, Japan declared war on the US
126
What went to Japan after PH?
Pacific Possessions 1 by 1
127
What did Japan do after PH?
- Captured Philippines and other US islands
- Overran British colonies of Hong Kong, Burma, and Malaya
- Advanced deeper into Dutch east indies and French Indochina
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By 1942 where was Japan's empire
Southeast Asia to Western Pacific Cost
