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| Chenault | Air Force General, Flying Tiger, believed in airpower |
| June 6, 1944 | Date of D-Day |
| May 1, 1945 | Hitler committed suicide |
| Yalta Conference | Stalin, Roosevelt & Churchill - Russian sphere of influence determined, occupation zone formed |
| Kamikaze | Divine Wind - suicide corp |
| Raising of flag at Iwo Jima on 2/23/45 | Symbol of US during WWII |
| Hiroshima | Japanese city destroyed on Aug 6, 1945 |
| Mulberries | Harbors constructed for Normandy |
| Utah, Gold, Juno, Omaha, Sword, Pegasus | Code names of beaches at Normandy |
| Casablanca in January 1943 | Conference where defeating U Boats was top priority |
| Churchill - goal was to bring Mussolini down and knew Germans wouldn't fight in Southern Italy, also got Rome for nothing (1st Axis capital to fall) | Who advocated the invasion of Sicily & Why |
| Russian offensive coincide w/Normandy, Russia in UN, postwar political issues, Iran postwar assistance & territorial integrity | Roosevelt & Churchill agreed w/Stalin at the Tehran Conference about what? |
| Mariana's turkey Shoot | Battle of the Philippine Sea was know as what? |
| Landing, Ship, Tank (also Land, Sea, Terrain vehicle) | What does LST stand for? |
| Stalin didn't want British in Mediterranean Sea | Stalin wanted 2nd front by invasion of France - not what? |
| 1. Didn't realize how paranoid & distrusting Russians were (feared invasion)2. Didn't realize Western Europe close to collapse 3. Didn't realize how exhausted the Allies were 4. Cut off land/lease program to Britain (almost bankrupted them) 5. Didn't realize that Chang Kai Shek couldn't keep the Chinese Nationalist alive (became communist) | At the end of the war, the US made a series of mistakes such as what? |
| The day marked by the Allies following the German Surrender to the Allied victory in Europe | May 8, 1945, VE Day, what is it? |
| Bombing at night, thinking amatuers actiity was clandestine, fragmented & invididual to theorist & advocation of popular war, waged war against each other, private & individualized, unorganized | What were he pecurliarities of the resistance movement? |
| Sept 17, 1944, Invasion of Holland, liberation of largest American airborne, Germans fell & solidified at the Rhine | What was the market garden? |
| Trench warfare in Western Europe, invasion of Italy | The theater of fighting resembling WWI was what? |
| Divided by east and west | What was happening in Berlin after the war? |
| Yamamoto | What Japanese Admirals plane was shot down over Rabaul? |
| Small barron coast island cost the US 6800 personnel between the Mariannes & Tokyo - bloodiest battle (symbol of war) | What was Iwo Jima? |
| General George C. Marshall | Who was the US Chief of Staff? |
| August 17, 1943 - tried to take out the ball bearing factory, lost 60 planes of 300 on 1st attempt, total of 148 planes & 1500 people - realized daylight bombing was impossible | What are some facts of the 2 air raids at Schweinfurt? |
| Joseph Borz, let the communist resistance called Tito's National Liberation Front & helped to put him officially in power after the war | Who was Tito of Yugoslavia? |
| He had a plan for the reallocation of countries after the war but the US kept troops in the West anyway (NATO & Marshall plan) | Why didn't Stalin want Western Allied Forces in Eastern Europe? |
| Amphibous landings, needed better reconnaissance & better communication & needed better fire support | What did the US learn at the Battle of Tarawa? |
| German position, natural barrier, Strongest line in Italy (headed toward Rome), Cassino was the key point, Allies arrived mid-January 1944 | What is the Gustav Line? |
| McArthur when he left the Phillippines | Who said "I shall return"? |
| Committ suicide after it was revealed that he betrayed Hitler, also forced to hold the line in N Africa (was offensive not defensive leader) | What was the Desert Fox forced to do? |
| Germans attacked the Allies wearing US uniforms, lasted 6 weeks, Germans lost 200,000 men & 600 tanks & aircraft (last of the disposable reserves) | Battle of the Bulge? |
| Enola Gay on Aug 6, 1945 | What was the name of the plane that dropped the 1st atomic bomb? |
| King of Italy, ousted Mussolini | King Victor Emanual III |
| Immanuel Kant of German | Who said "Utopia will never arrive"? |
| RAF at night, US during day | Who flew bomber raids? |
| Joseph Stillwell (aka Vinegar Joe - led Merrills Marauders) and Ernst King | Who was not one of the US Pacific Commands? |
| Drop tanks | What allowed the allied planes to escort bombers to distant targeets? |
| Special Operations Executive | What does British SOE mean? |
| Operation Overlord | Code name for invastion of Normandy? |
| Italians surrendured (secret armistice w/Allies) | What happened on Sept 3, 1943? |
| Monestary used as German fortress | What overlooked the town of Cassino? |
| Guadalcanal | What island was the focal point of the South Pacific? |
| American B17 bombers had this precise target finder that was supposed to help with daylight bombing | What was the Norden Bomb Sight? |
| Roosevelt died and Truman became president | What happened with Roosevelt on April 12, 1945? |
| Cologne - May 1942 | What city was the first 1000 plane RAF against? |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Supreme commander of the Normandy invasion? |
| On the battleship "Missouri" in Tokyo Bay | The Japanese surrendered on Sept 2, 1945 where? |
| top billing and allocation of resources | McArthur & Nimitz were in constant struggle for what? |
| Uncertain perception of what the Italian campaign was supposed to achieve and a sense amoung the troops of being a 2nd class operation | Italy was beset by divided allied councils regarding what? |
