Battles and Events of World War 2 fitb notes...The Battle of Guadalcanal • _____--_____ •...
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Robertson World History
Key Battles and Events of World War 2
Adolf Hitler
• Named ____________________ of Germany in 1933
• Creates a ________________________ government
• Demands __________________________ or living space for German people
Lebensraum
• Annexes ____________________ in 1938
• Next occupies the ______________________ and the following year all of Czechoslovakia
Nazi-Soviet Pact
• ___________________
• Germany signs ____________________ pact with the Soviet Union
• Meant to keep ____________________ from entering a ______________________
• Agree to split ________________ among themselves
German Invasion of Poland
• ____________________________
• German _____________________ overruns ______________________
• Quick ________________ victory
• _____________________________________ declare war on Germany
France’s Maginot Line
• Massive ________________ built along France’s border with Germany after WWI
The Fall of France
• ______________________
• Hitler’s army moves through the Ardennes and around the ________________________
• Reach France’s _______________________ in 10 days and France _____________________
The Miracle at Dunkirk
• ____________________________________
• Allied forces pushed to the beaches at _______________________
• French and British troops rescued by __________________________________________
The Battle of Britain
• Summer of _________________________
• German _______________________ makes nightly bomb raids over Great Britain
• New technology (____________________________) allow British RAF to hold off Germany and prove
Hitler can be stopped.
Operation Barbarossa
• __________________
• __________________ breaks non-aggression pact and invades the ___________________
• Soviet Union uses ________________ Policy and hold back Germany at Leningrad
• Germany moves on to ______________________ and ____________________________
Stalingrad
• ____________________-________________
• Germany wanted to seize oil fields and capture _____________________
• German troops __________________ to the Soviet Union due to starvation and cold
Pearl Harbor
• ______________________________
• Japanese __________________ on the US in retaliation for cutting off their oil supply
• _____________________________ ships sunk or damaged
• More than _____________________________ killed and the US enters the war
The Atlantic Wall
• _____________________________
• ______________ had massive defenses built along Europe’s western coast against invasion
D-Day
• Massive ___________________ of Europe planned by _________________________
• __________________________________ is selected as the best location
• Invasion is ____________________________
• Troops land in ______________________ to push into _______________________
• Largest ____________________________________________ in history
• Leads to the eventual liberation of _______________, ________________, and ____________
The Liberation of Europe
• Allied soldiers push into ___________________ and free _____________________
• Soviet army closes in on ________________________ from the east
• __________________________________ forces advance from the west
• The Battle of ____________________ begins April 1945
• Hitler ____________________________________ that month
• Germany _____________________ in May
The Battle of Midway
• ______________________
• Japan targeted ____________________ to get the whole ___________________ to the island
• US attack on Japanese __________________________ and was successful
• _____________________________________ of the war in the Pacific
The Battle of Guadalcanal
• __________________--____________________
• Allies attacked Japanese airbase in ___________________________
• Battle turned into a savage struggle and ended with more than _______________________
Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
• _____________________--_________________
• Brutal fighting over ________________________ close to Japan
• Extremely high _____________________ on both sides.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• ________________________
• President ___________________ informed an invasion of Japan might cost a million lives
• Dropping the _______________ would be the __________________ end to war
• Approximately ___________________________ civilians died in the atomic bombs
• ____________________ fallout killed more. Led to Japanese surrender.