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WWII Exam III

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WWII Soldier
Auftragstaktik
  1. Mission Type Tactics
  2. military commander gives their subordinate leaders a clearly defined goal
  3. the forces needed to accomplish that goal within a time limit
  4. frees higher leadership from tactical details
  5. forward cont
Rasputitsa  
  1. twice a year, the roads in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine become impassable
  2. so mudy and marshy
  3. halted Blitzkreig cuz it stops tanks
total war  
war involving military, social and economic sectors of a society
Giulio Dohuet
  1. 1921 book
  2. bombers were the key to the victory of future wars
Air Marshall Arthur Harris
  1. "Bomber"
  2. February 1942
  3. 1000 plane raids on Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin
Two ways to strategically bomb    
  1. saturation
  2. precision
Type of bombing used by US in the daytime
precision
Type of bombing used by GB at night  
saturation
Workhorses of Strategic bombing
  1. B-17
  2. B-24
nickname of B-17
Flying Fortress
nickname for B-24  
Liberator
name of formation B-17s flew in
combat box
What did B-17s develop as a result of?    
Washington Naval Treaty
1000 plane raid on Hamburg
  1. July 1943
  2. firestorm created
  3. 80% infrastructure destroyed
  4. 30,000 civs killed
P51 Mustang
  1. March 1944
  2. range beyond Berlin and back
  3. begins to affect Luftwaffe
bombing of Dresden
  1. Feb 1945
  2. Churchill's orders
  3. warning for Stalin
  4. incendiaries used
incendiaries
bombs that start fires
why does strategic bombing end in March of 1945?  
there is nothing left to bomb
Operation Torch
  1. North Africa
  2. seizure of 3 major ports
  3. no withdrawal from Hitler
3 ports to be seized in Operation Torch  
  1. Casablanca
  2. Oran
  3. Algiers
Commander of US army in Opn Torch
Patton
What is the end goal of Opn Torch?
Tunis
German Field Marshall at Opn Torch
Kesserling
Kasserine Pass
  1. Baptism of fire for US troops
  2. Rommel's counterattack
  3. US Artillery saves them
  4. Rommel asks Hitler for withdrawal
Date of Axis Surrender in North Africa  
May 13, 1943
Lessons learned in N Africa
  1. Artillery given increased firepower
  2. bigger guns on tanks
  3. increased training for troops
  4. M-1 Garand Rifle (semi-automatic) implemented
  5. Piper-cup (spotter plane)
  6. Bazooka developed to fight Ger Panzers
Sicily Invasion
  1. GB and US
  2. Straits of Messina
  3. bad weather
  4. paratroopers first time out
  5. heavy casualties
Allied landing on Italian mainland
  1. GB - Toronto -headed for Foggia
  2. US - Salerno - headed for Naples
Gustav Line  
  1. Kesserling
  2. above Naples
  3. Monte Cassino anchor (monastery) bombed
  4. Allies drop in behind
  5. Slow Ger w/d from Italy
Conditions that must be met before Normandy
  1. SU had to hold out
  2. Battle for the Atlantic has to be won
  3. Neutralize Luftwaffe
Two sites initially chosen for French invasion
  1. Pas de Calais
  2. Normandy
Advantages of Normandy
  1. shelter from weather/tides
  2. more rural
  3. port of Cherbourg
Big 3
  1. Stalin
  2. Churchill
  3. FDR
Operation agreed upon by Big 3 at Tehren meeting
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord
  1. cross-channel invasion
  2. seals military alliance between Big 3
US Army Chief of Staff at Opn Overlord
George C Marshall
Original date for D-Day
June 5 1944
Reasons for delay of D-Day
weather
Fortress Europa
  1. Atlantic Wall
  2. 15,000 strong points to be constructed
  3. once allied invasion happens, everything should be focused on pushing them back into the water
German Commander in Chief on the Western Front
von Runstadt
Who was in charge of the defenses of the Atlantic Wall?
Rommel
Opn Fortitude
  1. Rouse to fake out Germans
  2. John has a long mustache
  3. pretended to invade Pas de Calais
ways French Resistance assisted with Normandy
  1. cut phone lines
  2. derailed trains
  3. got German officers drunk
3 Stages to invading France
  1. Break-in
  2. Build Up
  3. Break Out
Break-in phase

landing and consolidation of beach 

Build Up Phase
  1. expand beach head
  2. increase # of troops on the beach
Break Out phase
  1. punch hole through Geman defenses
  2. breakout in 2 directions: ger and paris
head of the Japanese Ruling family    
shogun
way of the warrrior - code of the   
bushido
Jap warrior class abolished during the 1870s    
Samurai
nickname for Break-in phase
Neptune
type of boats used as landing craft at Normandy  
Higgins Boats
Why were the allied troops able to assemble in the the channel?
No luftwaffe
Omaha Beach
  1. Gers very strong, but slacked
  2. Allied pushed them back
  3. end of break-in, beginning of buildup
Factors to success at Normandy
  1. German slow/hesitant reaction
  2. Allied AF
  3. French Resistance assistance
  4. ULTRA
Falais  
area where Ger troops were trapped at Normandy - Hitler wouldnt let them withdraw
Battle of the Bulge
  1. Hitler's last chance
  2. Ardennes
  3. Dec 16, 1944
  4. Bastogne
  5. bad weather
  6. weakened Ger morale
US name for the Front at Battle of the Bulge
Sky Line Drive
US tanks
Sherman tanks
German Tanks
  1. panzers
  2. tiger
  3. panther
Kursk
  1. Ger and SU
  2. largest tank battle ever
Katyn Massacre
1000s of Polish POWs murdered by SU
Warsaw uprising
  1. Summer 44
  2. red army encourages anti-nazi uprising
  3. doesnt help
  4. eliminates anti bolsheviks in Poland
Remagen Bridge
only bridge on the Rhine not completely destroyed - allowed Allies to get into Germany
Where did allied and soviet forces link up in Germany?
Elba river
VE Day
May 7, 1945
Two areas of operation in the Pacific Theater  
  1. Central Pac - Nimitz
  2. South Pac - MacArthur
secondary fronts in Pac War
  1. China - India - Burma - Stillwell
  2. SE Asia - Mountbatten
First lsland attacked by the allies in the island hopping campaign
Tarawa
Disadvantages for the invader (US Marine)
  1. w/d difficult
  2. have to bring all supplies
  3. need air superiority
Okinawa  
  1. Spring 1945
  2. Kamikazes
  3. Ernie Pyle
  4. Simon Bolivar Buckner
Manhattan Project
  1. Einstein
  2. splitting the atom
  3. Los Alamos, NM
  4. Trinity Site
Operation Olympuc
  1. B-29 Super Fortress
  2. Curtis LeMay
  3. incendiaries
Potsdam Conference
  1. Truman, Stalin, Attlee
  2. alliance starts to crack
  3. sites chosen for nukes
VJ Day
Sept 1945
Yalta Conference  
  1. Big 3
  2. divides Germany
  3. spheres of influence
war crimes
  1. Nuremberg Trials
  2. Tojo & Yamashita executed
  3. Emperor spared

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