Blitzkrieg Flashcards

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Lend-Lease Program

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U.S. lend or lease military supplies, money to nations vital to U.S.

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Neutrality Acts

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Neutral countries that do not engage in war, or buy, sell, or trade with countries at war

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Selective Service Act

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Peacetime draft

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Port of Danzig

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Reason Hitler invaded Poland, to unite German citizens

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning war, using planes, tanks and infantry in rapid attacks

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Maginot Line

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Heavily fortified area between Germany and France

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Sitzkrieg

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7 months of no fighting

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Dunkirk

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French seaport; 338,000 troops evacuated and sent back to Britain

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Charles de Gaulle

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French military leader

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Winston Churchill

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British leader

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Battle of Britain

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Aircraft war over Britain

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Operation Sea Lion

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Hitler’s plan to invade Britain

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Luftwaffe

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German airforce

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Enigma

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British code breaking device

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General Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox)

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German general in charge of Africa

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Operation Barbarossa

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Hitler’s plan to invade USSR

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General George Zhukov

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Soviet general

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Atlantic Charter

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FDR and Churchill met to write post-war Europe would have free trade and self-governance

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Prior to Hitler’s attack on Poland, countries he took over?

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(CARS)- Czech, Austria, Rhineland, and Sudetenland

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Why Russia was unprepared for Hitler’s invasion?

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Stalin’s purges

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Strategy Russians used on Hitler?

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Scorched earth