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WWII Exam II

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Areas of Germany’s 3-prong attack on Russia
  1. North- Leningrad
  2. Center - Poland into Belorussia
  3. South - Ukraine
Who helps Germany in the North? 
Finland
Who helps Germany in the South?
  1. Rumania
  2. Hungary
  3. Italy
  4. Bulgaria
Where is the end goal of the central attack?  
Moscow
Why attack the South?  
Oil fields in the Caucasus
When did Germany attack Russia?
June 22, 1941
Why didn't Stalin warn the field commanders?

He thought Churchill's warning were a ploy to distract him

German northern theater in July    
  1. 80 miles from Leningrad
  2. S.U. has no infrastructure
  3. lack of supplies/trucks
German central theater in July
  1. 200 miles from Moscow
  2. get close
German southern theater in July  
  1. fierce opposition
  2. impressive gains despite
What does Russia do with it's factories when Germany attacks?  
  1. moves 1500 East beyong Urals
  2. dismantled and reassembled
  3. Great Patriotic War
Dates for the siege of Leningrad  
September 1941 - 1944
What happens to the Germans in Russia during the 41-42 Winter?  
  1. didnt bring winter supplies
  2. 60 below in some places
  3. devastates army
Why is the Russian counterattack successful?
  1. vastness of territory
  2. German inability to defend supply lines
  3. no German reinforcements
  4. Russian industry growing
What was the German invasion of the Soviet Union called?  
Operation Barbarossa
Why expand into Russia?  
  1. Lebensraum
  2. Germany was tool reliant on SU for raw materials
  3. Hitler feared Stalin might enter into an alliance with Churchill
Primary weakness in the Soviet Military?
military leadership - purges
Why was the Soviet military lacking military leadership?
  1. purges
  2. lack of battlefield experience
  3. low morale
Kristallnacht  
  1. Night of Broken Crystal
  2. Nazis smashed the windows of all the Jewish businesses
  3. burned temples
  4. accosted leadership and interned them
Nuremberg Laws
  1. late 1930s
  2. Jews denied citizenship
  3. Jews denied universities
  4. no intermarriage
  5. no Nazi membership
What was the final solution to the Jewish question?  
Holocaust
Evolution of the holocaust
  1. Polish jews concentrated into ghettos
  2. Special Action Group Murder squads
  3. establishment of death camps
Judenrat
  1. Jewish council allowed by the Germans in each ghetto
  2. administering the jewish population
  3. doing the bidding of the german officers
Date when death camps first started
December 1941
Sonderkommando  
Jew units in death camps responsible for herding other jews in the gas chambers and burning the bodies
Japanese Expansionism Timeline    
  1. Turns to fascism
  2. desired more raw materials
  3. 1931- invasion and conquer of Manchuria
  4. Manchukuo established
  5. censured and leaves the League of Nations
  6. signing of anti-communist treaties with germany and i
Manchukuo 
Manchuria puppet government after Japan annexed
Rape of Nanking    
  1. December 1937
  2. 200,000+ murdered
reasons for increased Japanese nationalism 
  1. increased suspicion of Europe
  2. radio plays military music
  3. new uniforms to encourage comformity
  4. celebrations when soldiers leave for war
  5. no western influence allowed in
reasons Japan was pushed into Axis
  1. early german help with military training
  2. league of nations treatment after manchuria
  3. Russian battles on Chinese border
  4. U.S. embargoes post Indochina
Japanese victory at Malaya
  1. jap outnumbered 2:1
  2. japs had 300 tanks - brits had none
  3. brits not experienced with jungle tactics
  4. bombed singapore
  5. used bicycles
  6. takes singapore
  7. british morale collapses
Japanese failures at Pearl Harbor  
  1. do not launch recon to get US carrier fleet
  2. failed to attack submarine base
  3. didnt destroy repair facilities
  4. didnt destroy tank farm
Purple code
Japanese naval code in pacific
Japanese homefront war efforts  
  1. mock airraid drills
  2. neighborhood association involved with all the people
  3. implementing Patriotic virtues
Doolittle Raid
  1. April 18, 1942
  2. U.S. carries out 1st air raid on Japan
  3. not a lot of damaged
  4. shocked citizens
Battle of Midway
  1. June 1942
  2. U.S. intercepts Japanese fleet
  3. 4 Jap carriers destroyed
  4. Jap people and govt lied to
  5. US spy plane follow Jap recon plane to carrier fleet
  6. Jap changes to torpedos - takes time
  7. US dive bombers
Saipan  
  1. June 1944
  2. civilians caught up
  3. suicide instead of surrender
  4. AF depleted
Iwo Jima
  1. April 1945
  2. Kamikaze pilots
  3. protect Okinawa
  4. shot out of the air
Okinawa
  1. last island defense before Jap mainland
  2. last straw for Jap army
War Plan Orange
  1. MacArthur
  2. Phillipines
  3. Bataan Peninsula
  4. holds out awhile
  5. loses in end
Battle of the Coral Sea  
  1. May 1942
  2. ships never see each other
  3. tactically a draw - strategically U.S. victory
  4. shifts momentum of Pacific War
  5. Jap defeated b/c of code breaking
  6. two jap carriers out of commission
Operation Watchtower
  1. August 1942
  2. Invasion of Guadalcanal and Tulagi
  3. Japs building airfields
  4. Yamamoto killed on good will tour
  5. Matmacaw village
matmacaw village  
  1. Guadalcanal
  2. japanese tell marines they are gonna surrender
  3. marines land and are ambushed
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