Term
|
Definition
Site of the turning point in the European War
An industrial center on the western bank of the Volga River
September and October of 1942, German Italian and Romanian soldiers |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Eastern Front in July
Germans against soviets
Three thousand tanks against Kursk Salient
Soviets had three thousand tanks of their own
Last Great German offensive until December |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
General Montgomery with US and Rommel with Germans and Italians
Fighting over Suez Canal
US forced enemies to retreat
Lifted danger in Middle East |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Japanese struck American island to destroy American carrier forces
US cracked the code and were aware
Diversionary attack on the Aleutian Islands
US Navy sank three of the Japanese Fleet in five minuets
Ended Japanese efforts in expanding in the Pacific |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Japanese fleet sailed through the empty north pacific avoiding merchant shipping
Dockyards, drydocks, oil storage tanks, and American carriers remained unharmed
December 7th 1941 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
June 6th 1944, Allies landed in Normandy
We had a shaky “toehold” in France |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
November 8th 1942
Eisenhower landed in French Morocco and Algeria
Patton is field command
Montgomery forces Germany out of Africa
Marshall was army chief of staff
France switched sides |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Americans landed on Leyte to fight Japanese
Defeated 4 Japanese battle ships
Largest Sea battle ever |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Second half of 1940
Hitler sent bombers unsuccessfully |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
September 1st 1949
German Invaded and started war |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Axis Power
Led by Montgomery and Patton
Overran Sicily
King forced Mussolini out of power and began to negotiate peace with Brittan and US |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Forces British to reduce their reliance on the Atlantic supply lines
Roosevelt’s destroyer deal, US naval escorts in Western Atlantic
1941 – Helping Brittan |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
May 7th 1942
US aircraft carriers halted Japanese advance toward Australia |
|
|
Term
| Effect of Pearl Harbor on American public opinion |
|
Definition
Common Purpose
Everyone wanted to fight |
|
|
Term
| Americans industrial production |
|
Definition
| Grew to an enormous amount at the start of the war |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Office of Price Administration
Fought inflation with price controls and rationing |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Scientists were creating the atomic bomb
BIG secret |
|
|
Term
| Korematsu v united states |
|
Definition
US supreme court case
Payment to surviving Japanese evacuees |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Republicans nominated Dewey and democrats nominated Roosevelt, running with Truman |
|
|
Term
| Invasion of Italy and Fall of Mussolini |
|
Definition
“hit the soft sided underbelly” attacked Sicily
Italian king forced Mussolini from power |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Code name for entire campaign across France
US troops broke down German lines and closed in on the town of Falaise |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Spring of 1945
Hitler committed suicide on April 30
May 8th |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin in 1945
Plan final stages for WW II
Stalin promised to declare war on Japan, 3 month after German Surrenders |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Island Hopping, American version of Blitzkrieg
Isolate and Capture most strategically located Japanese held islands |
|
|
Term
| Fire bombing of Tokyo and Dresden |
|
Definition
Fire raid on March 9 1945
Destroyed 42% of Japanese industrial capacity |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
July 26th 1945
Democratize Japanese |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Led Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Command in the Pacific
Marines |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Led Island Hopping
Southwest Pacific
Okinawa
Not allowed to surrender on the Bataan peninsula |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Led attack on German African soldiers.
Against Desert Fox
Led D-day and Operation Overlord |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Operation torch
Led fight Omaha |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Operation torch
Battle of the bulge |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Operation Overlord and D-Day |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Worst fighting, men were killed coming of the ships
During D-Day |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The commander of US 3rd Army, helped to relieve the town of Bastogne |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Leader of Fascist Italy during World War II. Found hanging upside down in a Milan Square in 1945 |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Field commander of American Forces June 6, 1944 |
|
|
Term
| What the O in PTO represents |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| MacArthur was ordered to evacuate from this territory prior to the fall of Bataan and Corregidor. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The Nation targeted by the 'blitz' of 1940- 1941 |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The site of the heaviest fighting during D-Day |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| (victory in Europe) Truman proclaimed V.E. Day when Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945 |
|
|
Term
| Important date : May 8, 1945 |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The English Prime Minister during most of World War II |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The Area of northern France targeted for landings on D - Day |
|
|
Term
| The russian city under seige for over two years |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| The turning point of the PTO |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Churchill referred to this nation as the 'soft underbelly' of the Axis Powers |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The battle that stopped Japanese advance towards Australia |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The nation where most of the Battl of the Bulge occured. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The codename for the invasion of northern France |
|
|
Term
| This nation was divided up between Germany and Russia in 1939 |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| This was the site where the Russians fought the Germans in the greatest tank battle of World War II |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| This was the city associated with the date of August 6, 1945 |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| When was the bomb dropped on Hiroshima? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| What was the turning point in the ETO? |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Allied Commander - Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| American Commander of SW Pacific PTO |
|
|
Term
The british under Montgomery defeated the German/Italian forces under Rommel here |
|
Definition
|
|
