WW2 Pt. 1 Flashcards
(32 cards)
Blitzkrieg
Lightning War
Invasion of Poland
September 1st, 1939
No country suffered greater misery, destruction, and loss of life in WWII than
Poland
330,000 British and French troops are evacuated to England in what becomes known as
Miracle of Dunkirk
The German objective is to destroy the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy in preparation for an invasion of the British Isles
Battle of Britain
The Desert Fox
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
June 22nd, 1941
Invasion of the Soviet Union
Furher Directive 21
“Rules of war no longer apply”
Stalin’s Order 227
“Not a step back”
Russians called World War 2
The Great Patriotic War
For Hitler, the temptations for invasion, are too great
-Its the heart of Communism
-Its where Lebensraum is to be found
-It’s home to the largest Jewish population in the world
For the remainder of the war, the battle between the Soviet Union and Germany will simply be called…
The Russian Front
Passed by Congress in 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938
Neutrality Acts
“If you got the cash, we got the goods”
Cash and Carry
The U.S will give $46 Billion in aid
Lend-Lease
First peacetime draft in U.S. history
Selective Service Act of 1940
Gets the United States in WW2
Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941
Axis Powers
Germany - Adolf Hitler
Italy - Benito Mussolini
Japan - Hideki Tojo
Allied Powers
America - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
England - Winston Churchill
USSR - Joseph Stalin
These 3 will collectively be called “The Big 3”
Additionally, in the Pacific Theatre, China - Chang Kai Shek
Seize vital materials necessary for the war effort
War Production Board
First combat in the European Theatre
Operation Torch: Invasion of North Africa
“Ole Blood and Guts”
George S. Patton
FDR issues his controversial unconditional surrender ultimatum
Casablanca Conference
This defeat shatters the myth of German invincibility
Stalingrad
