World War II Flashcards

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Scape goat of Germany

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Anti Jewish laws - Segregated and labeled with the Star of David - Could not go to public spaces - Restricted to Manuel labor laws Attempt by Hitler to get them to leave

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Night of broken Glass Program against the Jewish community in Germany

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Because of the Great Depression - no jobs

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Rise of militarism Military government led Hideki Tojo Hirohito was a puppet emperor

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Japan goal to create an Asian empire and unite against the imperialist European countries and unify Asia under Japan

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Take over Korea

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Nationalists VS Communist

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Japan conquers Manchuria and makes it a puppet state

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300,000 raped/murdered by Japanese in china

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restore the Roman Empire and create an African empire

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Invaded and conquered by Italy

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To create a European empire

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Demilitarized buffer zone between France/Germany

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Dress rehearsal for WWII

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Austria - Anchluss (unified with Germany) Sedentenland/Czechoslovakia

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Neville Chamberlain - (Prime minister of Great Britain) Signed an appeasement policy that gave in to Hitlers demands to avoid war

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Said “You had the choice between war and dishonor, You chose dishonor and you will have war”

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Eventually gets taken by Hitler

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They are doing nothing to stop Italy, Japan, and Germany out of fear of WWII

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German Soviet nonaggression pact This allowed Hitler to invade Poland This was the start of WWII

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Lightning warfare (Fast and Furious)

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Both armies of German and French faced each other along the marginal line (Fortification between 2 countries) without fighting

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Invaded N Europe with Blitzkreig wich fell in 6 weeks British and French armies trapped on the English Channel

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British and French miraculously rescued Germany had conquered all of Western Europe except Great Britain due to it being an island

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Led French Government in exile Free France/Underground

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Hitlers plan to invade and conquered Britain Must control the sky first Targets were communication centers and airfields/destroy the RAF (Royal Air Force) Hitler switched attack to civilian population Gave RAF time to recover

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German Airforce

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Prime minister of Britain “Never surrender”

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57 days and nights of attacks Purpose was to destroy their will to fight Kids had to move to the countryside

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Back fired, made them more determined to resist

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Britain wins Hitlers first loss boosted morale

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Life line of Great Britain longest continuous batt of WWII/most important Atlantic was vital to Britains survival German boats (Wolf Packs) were successful Allies fight back with convoys, depth charges, and sonars

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Allied Powers - Great Britain, France, USA, and Soviet Union Axis Powers - Germany, Japan, and Italy

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Purpose was to limit U.S improvement in future wars 1. Placed embargo on arms sales to belligerents 2. Forbade American ships from entering war zones and prohibited them from being armed 3. Banned Americans from riding on belligerent ships

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Assisted Great Britain with Supplies

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USA would lend or lease arms or other supplies to any country Vital to defense of USA Great Britain, Soviet Union, and China all got aid

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USA supplied 3/4 of all allied war material USA was firing an undeclared war on the Axis powers

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Invasion of Soviet Union on eastern front

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1. Lebensraum - Living space for German people 2. Largest population of Jews 3. Natural resources - Oil etc.

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Russian army

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Knock out the cities because that’s where the factories were

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Germans came within 20 miles but lost due to brutal winter

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900 day siege 1 million died

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Fight to take over Russian oil fields fight to death Lasted 5 months Bloodiest battle on the eastern front Germans forced to surrender over 90,000 troops

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It drained his manpower Lost one third of his army and military resources

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strategic bombing of military targets like airfields, and railways but later cities like Berlin and Tokyo Crippled axis powers industrial centers Civilians caught in the crossfire 10 million killed

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First American bombing crew to complete 25 successful missions Air Force casualty rate was 51%

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Japan attacked French indo-china USA froze all Japanese assets in the USA and stopped all trade including Oil with Japan

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Japan realizes USA is the only one that can stop them from taking over Asia so they decide to attack USA’s largest Naval base Believed it would destroy their will to fight Planned over a year

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Admiral of Japanese navy

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1. US intellegance warned of imminent attack 2. Midget submarine discovered at 4 am 3. Radar sighting at 7:05 am

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First wave 7:48 am TORA TORA TORA - Japanese code word Bombers/torpedo planes attack Three targets - Aircraft carriers, battleships, airfields USS Arizona - memorial Destroyed 18 ships including 8 battle ships Japan lost 29 airplanes

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They failed to destroy 1. Rapair facilities 2. Fuel depots 3. or submarines 4. US aircraft carriers Within 6 months everything ship was repaired except 2

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Philippines, Guam, wake island, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong

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FDR/USA declares war on Japan A date that will live in infamy

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1. USA enters the war 2. Unites the People of the USA 3. Interment Camps - 120,000 “Nisei” were forced into prison camps - reason given was national security but in reality it was fear and prejudice

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Fall to Japan

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70,000 American/filipino prisoners forced to march to Corregidor Island 27,000 died in POW camps (30% Americans)

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US commander of the pacific theatre forced to retreat Promises his men “I shall return”

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Allies strike back Col. James Doolittle 80 men 16 B-25 bombers strike Tokyo Only 6 killed Boosted American morale

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Battle of coral sea - The US stops the invasion of Australia Battle of Midway - Deafeats Japan and stops their invasion on Hawaii - Sinks Half of their aircraft carriers - Turning point of the Battle in the Pacific (Most important naval battle)

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American strategy to win the pacific theatre Get close enough to launch bombing attacks

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First major island taken from Japanese Starting point to attack japan

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Activities civilians did to help the war effort

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Everything/Everybody involved in war effort

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15 million soldiers were drafted Over 1 million blacks served in the war Tuskegee Airmen 300,000 woman served in the war (Non-combatants)

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Recruitment/reasoning

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food and supplies such as gas, tires, and clothing

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People grow food for the war

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Mobilized for war effort War production board

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Symbol of American woman

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Allowed millions of Mexicans to come to American and work legally for a certain amount of time

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War Bonds - Loans given to the Government Income Tax

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Propaganda and News reels

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The systematic extermination of the Jews and other Undesirables

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Head of the SS, in charge of the Holocaust

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1. Immigration - Make life so bad they leave. Failed due to the Depression 2. Mobile Death squads - Dug Trenches and machine-gunned them to death. Failed due to it destroying soldiers morale 3. Ghettos - Worked them to death with little to no food to starve them. Failed because it took too long. 4. Death camps/Gas Chambers - Jew gassed in showers and cremated in ovens 6 million Jews and 5 million other undesirables killed

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Took Jews to Death camps

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Corrie Ten Boom - Hid Jews “Hiding place” Dietrich Bonhoeffer - German Protestant pastor who gave his life “The Cost of Discipleship” Oskar Schindler - Schindlers list Anne Frank - Jewish girl that died in the Holocaust “Diary of Anne Frank”

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Formed after the Holocaust

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Pow Camps - Helped prisoners of war (1-4% death rate) Work Camps - used slaves to help the war effort, many worked to death (Dachau most infamous) Death camps - Used to exterminate people, all in Poland (Auschwitz most infamous)

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Est. Rules of war

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Joint operations with Great Britain

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Allies take N. Africa from Germany Led by Gen Dwight Eisenhower (commanded European theatre) Bernard Montgomery - British General Erwin Rommel - Dessert Fox (German)

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Key allied victory in Africa

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Attack the weak link wich was Italy and Rome

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Key Italian Battle Mussolini Executed Italy was out of the war

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Conquer Germany

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Elaborate set of defenses set up by Germany to protect Europe from invasion

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Allied commander General

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Also Known as the Battle of Normandy Americans/British/Canadians Largest amphibious attack in history Allied attack 3 month battle Result: Allied liberation of Western Europe from the Nazis Looked like war would be over by Christmas

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Hitlers last offensive Small American unit (101st Airborne at Bastogne) Held their ground for seven days Gen George Patten Brought an end to the war in Europe sooner German resources were exhausted Germans in full retreat

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Russians pushing from the east and Americans from the west to defeat Hitler

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Soviets vs Germans Hitler and his wife Eva brawn commit suicide Germany surrender V - E Day End of war in pacific

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Japanese navy destroyed and the Philippine islands liberated MacArthur returns

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Japanese suicide planes used in desperation

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Japanese code to never surrender

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code talkers Secret US code

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US takes the first of the Japanese home islands

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5 men raise flag on mount suribachi

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Longest/bloodiest battle in the pacific last major battle of war Us loses 12,000

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SDA medic that Saved 75 men from certain death Won congregational Medal of Honor won 2 bronze medals and 3 Purple Hearts

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Albert Einstein warns FDR of atomic bomb production Leslie - Project coordinator Robert Oppenheimer - Chief sciences 2 types of bombs Tested in Los Alamos New Mexico

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Warns japan about new weapon

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Piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets Jr. Drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima “Little boy” Late on Nagasaki as well “Fat man”

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VJ Day WW2 Over

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The Nuremberg tribals (Germany) and Tokyo war crime trials (Japan) Both violated the Geneva convention (Rules of war)

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1. 70 million died, 40 million were civilians 2. Europe left in shambles 3. Cold War 4. Great Britain loses its empire 5. Nuclear age 6. Creation of Israel

World War II Flashcards

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