WW2 Map Quiz Terms

Battle of Britain

-7/10 - 10/31 1940

- fought entirely by airforce

- British victory

Battle of the Atlantic

-German attempt through the use of U-boats to disrupt Allied shipping

- initial success, US convoy system, tech, and production caused allied victory

-1939-1945

Operation Torch

- 11/8-16/1942

- Us invasion of North Africa to secure ports and airfields, while GB+US 1st Attack Germans

- Led by Eisenhower

Battle of Stalingrad

- 8/23/1942-2/2/1943

- Turning Point in Euro.

- USSR stop Germans while US attacks North Africa, German retreat

Casablanca

- 1/14-24/1943

- conference with FDR and Winston Churchill aiming to plan Allied strategy

- surrender is only acceptable if "unconditional surrender"

Sicily

- 7/10-8/17 1943

- Indirect approach and beginning of the Italian campaign (soft underbelly of axis)

- Ally victory

Tehran;

11/28-12/1 1943 in Iran

- Conference w/ the big 3 ally leaders

-timeline for attacks to open a 2nd front against germans in France

- Stalin commits to attack Japs after German defeated

Battle of the Bulge

-12/16/1944-1/25/1945

- Germany move troops east to west & launched a final counterattack

-Allies close Germany on both sides,

- General George Patton wheels army north, 82nd airborne fight

Potsdam

- 7/7 -8/2 1945

- final war-time conference, unconditional surrender offered to Japan

Operation Overlord

- allied opening of 2nd front in France launched on D-Day (6/6/1944, Sucessfull b/c Hitler deceived)

- led by Eisenhower

- largest amphibious invasion

Austria

- 1938, german troops march into Vienna and annex

Poland

- invaded by Nazi's on 9/1/1939

- divided by Germany and USSR

Czechoslovakia

- established by Hitler as a Protectorate

- liberated from Soviet troops in 1944

- contained Sudetenland

The Battle of Coral Sea

- 5/4-8/1942

- 1st Naval Battles fought entirely by aircraft carriers

- Stops Japan advance + invasion of Port Moresby

Battle of Guadalcanal

- 8/7/1942-2/9/1943,

- 1st land battle in Pacific theater, amphibious operations, deadly

Battle of Midway

- 6/3-7/1942

- Pacific turning point, Japan seeks destruction of US Pacific fleet,

- US dive bombers catch Jap rearming, hard loss for jap

Philippine Islands

- invaded by Japan on 12/8/1941 after Pearl Harbor

- location for largest carrier-to-carrier battle in history, US hellcats destroy jap planes in 1942, US and Filipino troops surrendered and were forced on the Bataan death march--many died

Pearl Harbor

- 12/7/1941 Japan launches preemptive strike against US base, all 8 Battleships hit & 3000 Americans killed

Iwo Jima

- 2/19-3/26 1945,

- US vs Japan, American Victory, 1st Invasion of the Japanese home island, US loses 5k marines in 25 days (flag pic)

Saipan

- 6/15-7/9 1944,

- Jap civilians & soliders jump to death to avoid surrender and US invasion of the island.

Okinawa

- 4/1 -6/22 1945

- US vs Japan, last major battle of WWII,

- battle for staging base of Jap invasion and bombing

Manchuria & China

- Japan invades and withdraws from the League of Nations in 1931,

- Japenese Rape of Nanking in 1937

Tokyo

- US does an air raid /bombing on 4/9-10 1945, most destructive single air attack

Hiroshima

- 8/6/1945, atomic bomb dropped, destroyed most of the city, 1st use of atomic weapon

Nagasaki

- 8/9/1945, atomic bomb dropped and Japan surrenders.

axis powers in WW2

Germany, Italy, Japan

allied powers in WW2

US, Great Britain, Soviet Union