World War 2 Flashcards
(26 cards)
Blitzkrieg
German’s new tactic of lightning war using tanks and planes to avoid the bloody trench warfare.
The Maginot Line
Frenches newly constructed fortifications to avoid trench warfare
Luftwaffe
The german airforces
Battle of Britain
The air war between England and Germany for Englands survival, with bombing raids and radars.
Dunkirk
After french surendered england was left alone to fight and was trapped along the coast by the German advance into France, so naval cessels and private boats rescued 340000 men
RAF
royal air force
radar
a technological advance that allowed the british to allocate their planes to defend against the raids in the Battle of Britain
Operation Barbarossa
the war that hitler plotted on russia
Stalingrad
the critical battle of the war. the TURNING POINT battle in europe where germans were forced to defend as russian armies advanced
Erwin Rommel and the afrika korps
nazi hero who headed the invasion of aftrica that was halted by the english at the battle of el alamein
General Dwight Eisenhower
the american general that launched an allied attack no itally and removed mussolini from power. He landed force in France and was in charge of DDay invasion
Battle of Bulge
american tanks commanded by George Patton broke through the german lines and stormed berlin and hitler committed suicide, and the germans surrendered to the allied powers
Final Solution
decision to exterminate European Jews. Tntrusted by the SS.
Reinhard Heydrich
himmler’s deputy in charge of final solution
Death Camps
Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor
Concentration camps and liberated camps
Dachau, Buchenwald, Bergen Belsen
Nuremburg Trials
trials for nazi leaders and participants in the holocaust for crimes agains humanity
embargo
Us refuses to sell iron oil rubber steel to Japan
Admiral Yamamoto
Commander of the japanese naby that launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the base of the United States Pacific Fleet
Bataan Death March
the brutal march back where many american prisoners died of starvation and abuse
Battle of Midway
first all carrier battle where the us navy destroyed 4 japanese carriers while losing only one, and from then on japan was on defensive
Douglas MacArthur
american commander in the Pacific that developed a strategy called island hopping. bypassed strongly held positions while making his way to japan. had pattles on iwo Jima and Okinawa. Kamikazes flew their planes directly into american ships in an attempt to destroy them, giving their lives.
the manhattan Project
the making of the attomic bomb that would release tremendous amounts of energy by splitting atoms. very secret. truman did not know that it existed until after he became president.
