Name:_____________________________________________________________________ Period: ______________________ Date: __________________________________

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.