WWII Lecture Notes Review

Flashcards based on lecture notes about WWII key events and figures.

What event on June 22, 1941, led to increased Communist participation in resistance across Europe?

Operation Barbarossa

The assassination of whom in June 1942 led to a more passive approach by the Allies?

Heydrich

What events in late 1941 and early 1943 made many believe German defeat was inevitable?

Entry of America into the War and Defeat at Stalingrad

In what year were the Nuremberg Laws enacted?

1935

When did the Anschluss (annexation of Austria) take place?

12 March 1938

What agreement ceded the Sudetenland to Germany in September 1938?

Munich Agreement

When did Germany seize the rest of western Czechoslovakia?

14 March 1939

What pact was signed between Germany and the USSR in August 1939?

Ribbentrop–Molotov Pact

When did Germany invade Poland, marking the start of WWII?

1 September 1939

When did France and Great Britain declare war on Germany?

3 September 1939

When did the USSR occupy eastern Poland?

17th September 1939

What was the 'Phony War'?

The period from October 1939 to April 1940

What was the name of Germany's invasion of Norway?

Operation Weserübung

When did Germany invade the Netherlands and Belgium?

10 May 1940

What period is known as the Battle of France?

10 May 1940 to 22 June 1940

When did Italy enter World War II on the Axis side?

10 June 1940

What period constitutes the Battle of Britain?

July to September 1940

What pact formalized the Axis Powers?

Tripartite Pact

When did Operation Barbarossa commence?

22 June 1941

What conference addressed the 'Final Solution'?

Wannsee Conference

When did Heydrich die?

4 June 1942

Which battle took place from August 1942 to February 1943?

Stalingrad

When was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?

April to May 1943

When did Germany occupy Southern France?

November 1942

What offensive freed Leningrad from the Soviets?

Soviet Spring Offensive

When did Operation Overlord (D-Day) take place?

6 June 1944

When was the Warsaw Uprising?

August to October 1944

When was Paris liberated?

26 August 1944

What was the operation called Market-Garden?

September 1944

When was the Battle of the Bulge?

December 1944

When did the Soviets attack Eastern Germany and capture Berlin?

April to May 1945

When did Hitler commit suicide?

30 April 1945

When did Germany surrender?

7 May 1945

Approximately how many people did Nazi Germany abduct for compulsory work?

12 million

Who was the Governor General of the General-Government in Poland?

Hans Frank

Who was a key leader of the Polish resistance (AK) and was pro-Jewish?

Stefan Rowecki

What was Operation Tannenberg?

One of the first anti-Polish extermination actions by the Nazis

What was the most important Polish resistance movement?

Home Army (Armia Krajowa), AK

What was the communist resistance movement in Poland called?

Communist People’s Army (Armia Ludowa), AL

What was the Diversionary Command (Kedyw)?

An organisation for ‘combat diversionary’ operations

Who were the Cichociemny (Silent and Unseen)

Elite SOE paratroopers of the Polish Army in exile from Britain

What was Operation Burza (tempest)?

Series of supporting attacks launched by the AK in conjunction with Soviet offensives

What percentage of Poles did Generalplan Ost aim to remove?

80-85%

How many Poles were sent to Germany for forced labor?

1,400,000

How many Poles were killed at Katyn?

Almost 22,000

What was the size in August 1944 of the Norwegian AK (second-largest resistance group)?

400,000 soldiers

what caused many in Norway to become against the Germans and join the resistance

Compulsory Conscription and Labour Services (AT) Started in late 1942

The Storting, supreme legislature of Norway

Voted to remove the King of Norway who refused to Abdicate

Who commanded Operation Weserübung and was the commander of German troops during the occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1944?

Nikolaus von Falkenhorst

When was Milorg (linge company) set up

March 1941