wwII
Invasion of Poland
Blitzkreig
“Lightning war” German invasion followed by red army ennecations of Poland
Panzers
Battle tanks apart of the german army
Luftwaffe
Airforce of wehrmacht
Hermann Goering
German nazi politican, convicted war criminal, heavily involved in holocaust
Wehrmacht
Unified armed forces of nazis, heer(army) luftwaffe(airforce), kreigsmarine (navy)
Non-Aggresson pact ‘39
Agreement of no attacked between germany and soviet union
Phoney war
Lack of action on western front, britain/france prepare for war
Russo-Finnish war ‘39-40
Soviet union vs. finland, sovviet invasion, ending in moscow peace treaty
Winston Churchill
Pm of UK, allied victory
Dunkirk (Operation dynamo)
Evacuation from Dunkirk of 300000+ allied soldiers
Vichy France
French government in control during ww2, after defeat against germany
Charles DeGualle
French militrary leader, led forces against nazi germany
Battle of Britain
Luftwaffe vs. Royal airforce, battle for control over britain english skies
Radar
Detect and locate objects
The blitz
German bombing campaign against uk,
Erwin Rommel (Desert fox)
German marshall, leadership in north africa campaign
Afrika Korps
German military unit in africa campaign
Enigma
cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication
Battle of El Alamein
Axis army of Italy and Germany suffered defeat by the British army
Bernard Montgomery
Uk military leader, allied invasion (d-day), africa campaign, victory in normandy, germany and l alamein
Battle of the Atlantic
Allied vs. German forces for control over Atlantic ocean ‘submarine warfare’
Convoys
a group of vehicles, ships, or aircraft that travel together for mutual protection
U-boats
German submarines
Sonar
technology used to detect objects underwater
Operation Barbarossa
Inasion of Soviet union by Nazi germany
Scorched earth policy
military strategy that involves destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to fight a war.
Siege of Leningrad
Germany army seige leningrad during operation barabossa
Battle of Stalingrad
Massive casualities to both sides. Germany loses to Soviet union
Battle of Attrition
to exhaust the enemy's ability to continue fighting, leading to their collapse or surrender over time.
Battle of Kursk
Largest tank battle in history, Soviet victory against Germany
Italian campaign
Led too liberation of Italy, allies/Axies invade Sicily
Wartime conferences
Held by allied forces to dicuss military operations
Tehran ‘43
1st Meeting with roosevelt, stalin, churchill (allied leaders)
Yalta ‘45
Allied forces (roosevelt, stalin, churchill) were closing in on a final victory over Nazi Germany in Europe,
Potsdam ‘45
United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union (churchill, Truman, stalin) after germany surrender
Sphere of influence
territory where a particular country or political entity exerts significant cultural, economic, military, or political influence, often without direct control or formal authority.
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
leadership during the Great Depression, president of us
Josef Stalin
Leader of soviet union
Dwight Eisenhower
President of us, military leader,
Operation overlord (D-Day)
Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe
Normandy
D-day Allied western-Europe. Allies win back France
Mulberry Harbours
two temporary portable harbours developed by the British Admiralty and War Office during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy
Operation market garden
Allies aim to capture bridges in Netherlands, ‘Airborne operation’
V1(2) rockets
German jet-propelled missiles
Battle of the bulge
Failed effort too surprise attack allied forces in forested Ardennes, by german forces
Warsaw uprising
operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.
Berlin ‘45
Major offence attack from soviet army, capturing Berlin, Hitlers death, Germans surrender
VE day (Victory in Europe)
Allies celebrate defeat of Nazi Germany, bringing peace to Europe
Final Soultion
The Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish population in Europe.
Einrich Himmler
Primary role in the holocaust, head of SS
Genocide
deliberate extermination of a group of people based on their identity.
Einsatzgruppen (SS)
key perpetrators of the Nazi genocide, responsible for mass shootings and other forms of execution
Warsaw ghetto
brutal symbol of the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jewish people during the Holocaust
Auschewitz (Concentration/death camps)
Holocaust
the systematic genocide orchestrated by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the deaths of six million Jews and millions of others
Nuremberg trials
prosecute prominent leaders of Nazi Germany for war crimes,