world war 2
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rubmegenie on June 3, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Guderian | Father of German Tank tactics |
| Phony war | september '39 to april '49 |
| spanish civil war | Germans test out their military here before |
| blitzkrieg | lightening warfare |
| 1 september 1939 | germany invades poland |
| leningrad | russians surrounded here for over 900 days |
| operation torch | allied invasion of North AFrica |
| battle of the bulge | germans test out their military here before WW2 |
| dunkirk | Great Britain retreats from France from here |
| eisenhower | supreme allied commander |
| normandy | operation overload happens here |
| dresden | fire-bombed in FEbruary 1945 by Aliies |
| tripartite pact | Japan, Germany, Italy |
| yalta conference | Allies plan for post-war europe |
| luftwaffe | German Air force |
| RAF, airfields | Name the two primary targets of the Luftwaffe at the beginning of the Battle of Britain. |
| "nuts" | 32. When asked to surrender, the American commander of Bastogne gave this reply to the German commander. |
| market garden | The British designed battle that included the largest parachute drop ever in the history of warfare was called Operation ___________________________. The battle ended up being one Montgomery's most significant failures of the war. |
| maginot line | The _________________________ was the French border fortifications that were designed to keep France safe in the event of a German attack. |
| radar | 35. ___________________ was the technological system that enabled the British to identify and track incoming German aircraft during WWII. |
| barbarossa | Operation _____________________________ was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. |
| monte cassino | The _______________monastery in Italy was the site of a key battle in the drive to liberate the Italian peninsula. |
| rangers | 38. The US Army _________________ were assigned to take out the strategic coastal battery Point Du Hoc during the Battle of Normandy. |
| kampfgruppen | _____________ were German independent combat teams that that were highly mobile and could fight for several days without resupply. |
| nazi soviet pact | 40. Germany and the USSR signed the _______________________ in 1939. |
| bodyguard | Operation __________________________ was the code name of deception operations for D-Day. |
| fascism | The Italian political concept that required total devotion to the state and emphasized the importance of the group over the individual was known as ___________________. |
| intelligence, sonar | 43. Provide two reasons that enabled the U.S. defeat the Japanese at Midway. |
| mahattan project | The ____________________ ___________________ was the code name for the development of the first atomic bomb. |
| manchuria | 45. Japan invaded _______________ in 1931.____________ was the American strategy that was symbolized by seizing key islands and leapfrogging over those not essential to defeating the Japanese. |
| island hopping | _____________ was the American strategy that was symbolized by seizing key islands and leapfrogging over those not essential to defeating the Japanese. |
| phillipines | After the _________________ fell in 1942, over 70,000 POWs were forced to walk over 60 miles in what became known as the Bataan Death March. |
| purple | The Japanese cipher machine that the US Navy broke was called the __________________ machine. |
| coral sea | The first all-air naval battle was conducted in May of 1942 at the Battle of ____________________. |
| midway | The turning point of the war in the Pacific occurred at the Battle of _________. At this battle four Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk. |
| doolittle | _______________ was the leader of the air raid on Tokyo in April 1942 |
| prince | Captain _________________ lead the 6th Ranger Battalion during their successful rescue of 522 POWs at Cabanatuan in January 1945. |
| Which of the following were not discussed at the Yalta Conference? | ... |
| Nicknamed the "Desert Fox," this man was the German commander of Nazi forces in North Africa? | Rommel |
| The key city the Germans could not capture during the Battle of the Bulge was named ______________________. | Bastogne |
| ___________________ is the German word that means the 'thrust point' or the area where penetration of the enemy lines will take place. | Schwerpunkt |
| Who was not part of the 'Big Three'? | Einsenhower |
| 58. _____________ was the first all-air battle in the history of warfare. | Battle of Britain |
| 59. Which of the following is not an element of all WWII totalitarian states? | Elimination of oraganized region |
| 60. Benito Mussolini was often referred to by this title. | IL duce |
| Which of the following was not a political alliance negotiated by Germany? | Nazi-swedsh pact |
| 62. Who was the commander of US Navy commander in the Pacific? | Patton |
| What warship, although badly damaged in the Battle of Coral Sea, was repaired and played a decisive role at the Battle of Midway | USS Yorktown |
| He piloted the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb | Paul Tibbets |
| Although they put up a strong defense, the Japanese loose over 20,000 men during this battle in February/March 1945. | Okinawa |
| Admiral ________________ was the Japanese commander at the Battle of Pearl Harbor. | Yamamoto |
| Upon departing the Philippines in 1942, General MacArthur declared | I shall return |
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