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Blitzkrieg
also known as lightning war, was the new type of warfare Hitler and Germany raged initially on Poland and later against Denmark, Norway and other European countries.It was significant because it used new technology such as tanks and more advanced airplanes to get a breakthrough in the fighting, which differed greatly from the stalemate trench fighting in World War I.
Vichy France
was a city in France where Hitler set up a provisional government after France was conquered. Vichy was significant because besides being the new capital of France, it showed the French collaboration with Germany and the power Germany had at the time
Luftwaffe
was the German air force that was used to attack Britain’s air force in order to be able to attack Britain’s naval forces. TheLuftwaff e was significant because after it had major losses, Britain was able to defeat Germany and continued the tradition of Britain being a major military power.
Stalingrad
was a city in the Soviet Union that was host to the major Battle of Stalingrad in which Hitler and the Germans lost a major battle to Stalin and the Soviets. Stalingrad was significant because the battle was the major turning point of the war as well as being the most horrific.
Totalitarian State
government that has complete control of the citizens lives
appeasement
giving into another nation's demand in order to prevent a war
Holocaust
extermination of Jews, Poles, Russians, and gypsies by the Nazi's during WWII
WW2 begins
Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invades Poland. England and France declare war on Germany.
Allies
GB France US
Axis
Germany Japan Italy
appeasement
giving into another nation's demand in order to prevent a war
Holocaust
extermination of Jews, Poles, Russians, and gypsies by the Nazi's during WWII
WW2 begins
Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invades Poland. England and France declare war on Germany.
Allies
GB France US
Axis
Germany Japan Italy
First German Offensive
against Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Attacked Denmark and Norway. By-passed fortified Maginot line armament by attacking through Luxembourg.
Dunkirk
400,000 British and French troops trapped but managed to escape without their equipment.
Battle of Britain
Germany tried to conquer Britain from the air. Tactic was unsuccessful. Germans considered, then abandoned plan to invade Britain.
Who controlled the soviet union after 1924?
Stalin
Treaty that ended ww2?
treaty of versailles
what kind of government maintains complete control over its citizens?
communist
founder of fascism
mussilini
fascism
strong central government with powerful dictator
nazi
nationalist socialist german party
wrote mein kompf
hitler
year hitler came to power
1933
what did germany do in 1933
left the league of nation
what did germany do in 1935
began to build up the army
what did hitler do in 1936
signed the rome berlin axis pact
what did mussilini take over in 1936
ethiiopia
isolationism
not involving in other countries affairs
why were americans isolated in the 1930s?
they did not want another war
Europes 3 facsist dictators
mussolini , hitler, Stalin
What did hitler promise chamberlain at munich?
he would not expand anymore
how did western countries appease hitler
they did not try to stop him
soviet german nonaggression pact
they agreed to divide poland and not fight eachother
why did hitler and stalin sign the nonaggression pact
so they would not have to fight eachother
what was the lend lease act
they could lend aide to countries that were beneficial to us
How did the soviet union become americas ally?
they needed eachother to defeat germany
What did he german U boats do to american ships in the atlantic
they sank them
who was the prime minisster of japan in 1941?
hideki tojo
where is pearl harbor
hawaii
why was pearl harbor important to the us
it was the largest naval base in the pacific
when was pearl harbor
dec.7 1941
result of pearl harbor
us enters war
WHo was the US's main enemy?
Germany
What was the allied strategy of ww2
defeat germany and accept only unconditional surrender
what did churchill describe as the soft underbelly of europe?
italy
Battle of Midway
japanese losst midway island to the us
battle of anzio
allies invade italy and it looses its importance within the axis powers
where did D- day happen?
england
When was D day?
June 1944
What was the significance of DDAy
we begin to push germans back to germany
what was the significance of the battle of the bulge
it was germanys last offense
Iwo JIma and Okinawa-
put us closer to japan
what is v-e day
victory in europe
Stalin
General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. In some ways, Stalin was responsible for the USSR’s severe losses at the beginning of World War II, as he failed to head the warnings of his advisors and did not allow the Russian military to prepare a proper defense. At the same time, he did succeed in holding the country together and inspiring among his people an awesome resistance against Germany, which ultimately forced a German retreat. Stalin’s own regime in the USSR was just as brutal as the Nazi regime in many ways, and the alliance between Stalin and the Western Allies always remained rather tenuous because of mutual distrust.
Anschluss
Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s doctrine of German political union with Austria, which effectively enabled Germany to annex that nation in March 1938.
Battle of the Coral Sea
A battle from May 4–8, 1942, in which U.S. naval forces successfully protected the Allied base at Port Moresby, New Guinea, the last Allied outpost standing between the Japanese onslaught and Australia. The battle, which caused heavy losses on both sides, was the first naval battle in history fought exclusively in the air, by carrier-based planes
Battle of El-Alamein
An October and November 1942 battle that was the climax of the North African campaign. A resounding victory by the British over the Germans, the battle paved the way for the Allied takeover of North Africa and the retreat of German forces back across the Mediterranean.
Battle of Guadalcanal
A campaign from August 1942 to February 1943 in which U.S. Marines fought brutal battles to expel Japanese forces from the Solomon Islands, a strategically important island chain in the South Pacific near Australia.
Battle of Iwo Jima
A battle in February and March 1945 in which U.S. forces took Iwo Jima, a small but strategically important island off the Japanese coast. During the battle, an Associated Press photographer took a world-famous photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on the summit of Mt. Suribachi.
Battle of Midway
A battle from June 3–6, 1942, in which U.S. naval forces severely disabled the Japanese fleet at Midway Island in the Pacific. Coming close on the heels of the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway forced Japan into defensive mode and turned the tide of the war in the Pacific theater.
Battle of Stalingrad
A brutal, five-month battle between German and Soviet forces for the important industrial city of Stalingrad that resulted in the deaths of almost 2 million people. The battle involved very destructive air raids by the German Luftwaffe and bloody urban street fighting. In February 1943, despite direct orders from Hitler forbidding it, Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered the German forces to the Red Army.
“Final Solution”
The Nazi’s euphemistic term for their plan to exterminate the Jews of Germany and other German-controlled territories during World War II. The term was used at the Wannsee Conference of January 1942, in which Nazi leaders planned the Holocaust but made no specific mention of the extermination camps that ultimately killed millions.
Munich Agreement
A September 30, 1938, agreement among Germany, Britain, Italy, and France that allowed Germany to annex the region of western Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland. The Munich Agreement was the most famous example of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement prior to World War II.
President Truman
chose to drop the atomic bomb
Nuremberg trials
place where Nazis were tried for their crimes against hmanity
genocide
the deliberate murder of an entire nation or ethnic group
anti-semitism
violent hatred and prejudice of the Jews
Auschwitz
most famous concentration camp
Communism
Stalin's form of government
Fascism
Mussolini's form of government
Totalitarianism
HItler's form of government
Czechoslovakia
country that Britain gave to Hitler
Munich Conference
Great Britain gave Hitler territory to try to keep him from taking more land in Europe
Kamikaze
During World War II Japanese pilots were trained to make a suicidal crash attack, upon American ships. Very successful and had huge effect of allied moral
Leningrad
Germans beseiged this city for 3 years, from 1941-1944. The Soviets were able to stop the German advance in the north here. The German plan was coded as Operation Nordlicht. The siege lasted from September 8, 1941 to January 18 1944.
Yalta Conference
The 'big three' (Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt) met to decide how to divide up Europe after the defeat of Germany.
Potsdam Conference
The Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the U.S represented by Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. They tried to decide what to do with a defeated Germany but couldn’t come to an agreement.
Francisco Franco
Spain dictator
Dadaism
a revolt by certain 20th-century painters and writers in France, Germany, and Switzerland against smugness in traditional art and Western society; their works, illustrating absurdity through paintings of purposeless machines and collages of discarded materials, expressed their cynicism about conventional ideas of form and their rejection of traditional concepts of beauty
Maginot Line
was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, machine gun posts and other defences which France constructed along her borders with Germany and with Italy in the wake of World War I
Chiang Kai Shek
took over the Kuomingtang after Sun Yat-Sen's death. He eventually reunited China in 1928. During the 1920's he did not trust the Communist party and purged them from all government positions. He was the President and commander in chief of all the Chinese forces during WW2 and the Chinese Civil War. After the defeat on mainland China, he set up the KMT government on Taiwan and became President until his death.
Leon trotsky
stalin murdered him
Heinrich Himmler
was born in 1900 and died in 1945. Heinrich Himmler was to become one of the most feared men in Nazi Germany and Europe once World War Two broke out. As head of the SS, he had ultimate responsibility of internal security in Nazi Germany (as was seen in the Night of the Long Knives) and was associated with helping to organise the Final Solution though Reinhard Heydrich had a major input into the organisation of the Holocaust.
Battle of Normandy
codenamed Operation Overlord, began with the amphibious Allied landings at Normandy, France, early in the morning of June 6, 1944, and continued into the following weeks with a land campaign to establish, expand, and eventually break out of the Normandy bridgehead. In the English-speaking world, it remains the best-known battle of World War II.
The Evian Conference
The rise of the Nazi regime in Germany and the following military conquests by Germany created a "problem" of refugees fleeing Germany, Austria and wherever the Nazis had influence or were expected to ent
Anti Comintern pact
Germany and Japan created the pact of 1936 because both, in their quest for expansion, stumbled into conflict with Russia. Another motivating factor was that both nations felt left out of the newly divided up colonies spread across the globe. Germany who had been recovering from its World War I damage was never given a chance to take control and develop an empire like the rest of the western nations. Japan was left alone in the east, but was forced to watch as the western nations came in and took control over her surrounding countries, leaving them nothing left to colonize, except China. Hitler looked to Japan to be that ally, because when Japan started to expand into China in 1931, the Russians provided resistance, supporting their Communist partners, thus ending Japan and Russia's years of cooperation.
MOnte Cassino
t, a desperate and costly series of battles fought by the Allies during January and February of 1944 with the intention of liberating and linking up with allies contained within the Anzio pocket.

The first battle started on January 4, 1944 and the monastery atop the hill was destroyed by Allied bombing on February 15. Allies aircraft heavily bombed the ruins of the monastery and staged an assault on March 15.

The eventual connection of the forces was to lead to the capture of Rome on June 4th 1944 just days before the invasion in Normandy.

But the battle at Monte Cassino waged on until May 18 when exhausted Germans evacuated the stronghold and Allied forces moved in. At least 20,000 soldiers were killed in the battle.
sanction
In international relations, a sanction is an action designed to control the conduct of a group or country. They usually take the form of a threat of possible punitive action agains a specific nation for conduct viewed as dangerous.
Danzig
The City of Danzig or Gdansk fell on 28th March 1945 following a short siege by the Russians. It was part of the Eastern Pomeranian Offensive which cleared the area up to the Eastern bank of the Oder river. Notable cities to fall included Kolberg and Danzig.
surrealism
Surrealism originated from the Dadaist movement which was founded during world war one. Dadaists believed that most irrational things originated from the horrors of war.
Surrealism hit its peak around the period of time when World war two was happening. Some people may also confuse Surrealism with the beliefs of Dadasim.
wake island
waged between U.S. Marine and civilian defenders and Japanese invaders. At that time, Wake Island was the site of a half-completed U.S. air and submarine base. The Japanese first attacked Wake with 36 bombers at noon on Dec. 8, 1941 (Wake time; December 7, Hawaiian time), a few hours after the Pearl Harbor attack. A Japanese naval task force that included cruisers and destroyers appeared on December 11 but was repulsed with considerable loss by the coastal-defense guns and aircraft.
Tehran COnference
(November 28–December 1, 1943), meeting between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehrān during World War II. The chief discussion centred on the opening of a “second front” in western Europe. Stalin agreed to an eastern offensive to coincide with the forthcoming Western Front, and he pressed the western leaders to proceed with formal preparations for their long-promised invasion of German-occupied France.
Neville Chamberlain
prime minister of GB
battle of paris
aka liberation of paris took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the surrender of the occupying German garrison on the 25th and is accounted as the last battle in the Campaign for Normandy and the transitional conclusion of the Allied invasion breakout in Operation Overlord into a broad-fronted general offensive. The capital region of France had been administered by Nazi Germany since the Second Compiègne armistice in June 1940 when Germany occupied the North and West of France and when the Vichy regime was created with its capital in the central city of Vichy.
Tobruk
in North africa. 1941 The Libyan port of Tobruk, 50 miles from the Egyptian frontier, was captured from the Italians by British forces on 22 January 1941. Axis forces under Rommel subsequently defeated the British, but it was decided to hold Tobruk. The siege of Tobruk began on 10 April 1941, and the port was relieved by the British on 10 December 1941. Tobruk was subsequently captured by Rommel on 21 June 1942 and finally retaken by the British following the battle of El Alamein in November 1942.
Demilitarized ZOnes
an area in which it is forbidden to station military forces or maintain military installations.