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World War II Review (Hist 12)

Molotov Cocktails

Mannerheim Line

Treaty of Moscow

Winston Churchill

Neville Chamberlain

Maginot Line

Blitzkrieg

Operation Yellow (Sichelschnitt) 

Dunkirk

Operation Dynamo

Vichy France 

Henri-Philippe Petain

Battle of Britain

  • Operation Eagle

  • Operation Sea Lion 

  • Blitz

Roosevelt's Four Freedoms

War in the Atlantic

  • The Bismarck

  • HMS Hood

  • Hedgehogs

  • Enigma Code

  • Depth Charges

  • Corvettes

Lebenstraum (Living Space)

Operation Barbarossa

Luftewaffe

Leningrad

Stalingrad

Battle of Kursk

General von Paulus

General Zhukov 

Atlantic Charter 

Holocaust

  • Auschwitz

  • Dachau

  • Death Camps

  • Final Solution 

COSSAC (Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander) 

War in Desert

  • General Erwin Rommel 

  • Quattara Depression

  • El Alamein

  • General Graziani

  • General O'Connor

  • General Wavell

  • Tobruk

  • General Auchinleck

  • Malta

  • General Montgomery

  • Operation Torch

  • General Eisenhower

  • Casablanca Conference

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Dieppe

Air Marshal "Bomber" Harris

  • Cologne

  • Dresden

"A Day in Infamy" 

D-Day

  • Panjandrum

  • "Fortress Europe"

  • Mulberry

  • Pluto

  • D-Day gliders

  • Beaches: Juno, Omaha, Utah, Sword, Gold 

V1 Rocket: Buzzbomb

V2 Rocket 

Polish Home Army

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Charles De Gaulle

  • Free French

Operation Market Garden

Red Ball Highway

Battle of the Bulge

  • General Mcaullife

Yalta Conference

Admiral Doenitz

San Francisco Conference

Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

Tripartite Pact

Lend-Lease

Neutrality Act

Japanese attack

  • Pearl Harbour

  • Yamamoto

  • Singapore

  • Philippines

  • Hong Kong

Battle of the Coral Sea

Battle of Midway

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Island Hopping

  • Iwo Jima

  • Okinawa

Divine Wind

Kamikaze

Harry S. Truman

Potsdam Conference

The Manhattan Project

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

Emperor Hirohito

U.S.S. Missouri

Prime Minster Tojo

The Nuremberg Trials

Concepts to Understand

  1. Why does Russia attack Finland?

  2. Why does Germany attack Denmark and Norway?

  3. Against which country was the Blitzkrieg military tactic first used?

  4. Why was France split into German Occupied France and Vichy France? 

  5. How did Hitler's plan to defeat Great Britain actually unfold? 

  6. What was Germany's approach to dealing with Great Britain's navy?

  7. Why did Stalin purge the upper ranks of his military officers, and what effect did it have on the Red Army?

  8. How did signing the "Pact of Friendship" with Russia help Germany? What were Hitler's true intentions in dealing with Russia?

  9. Why was Operation Barbarossa delayed 6 weeks? And why was this delay important later on?

  10. How does the "Clausewitzian Dictum" apply in the desert war?

  11. What is the overall significance of the German involvement in North Africa?

  12. What did Air Marshall Harris believe could be achieved by instituting his 1000 bomber raids?

  13. Why did the Allies call Sicily the "soft underbelly of Europe"?

  14. After having learned from their mistakes at Dieppe, how did the Allies prepare for the D-Day invasion?

  15. What did Roosevelt mean with the phrase: "the arsenal of democracy?"

  16. What did the U.S. do that angered the Japanese, which precipitated an attack against Pearl Harbour

  17. What role does progaganda play in delivering a message during wartime?

  18. In what ways were the Japanese brutal in terms of their treatment of the POWs? 

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