Lend Lease: A policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, France, China, and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945.
Burma Road: The Burma Road was a road linking Burma with southwest China. Its terminals were Lashio, Burma, in the south and Kunming, China, the capital of Yunnan province in the north. It was built in 1937-1938 while Burma was a British colony to convey supplies to China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Vichy government: Vichy France was the French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War Two. Officially independent, it was occupied by the Nazis and the French worked collaboratively with them.
Banzai culture: Banzai attack was the term that was used by the Allied forces of World War II to refer to Japanese human wave attacks and swarming. The term came from the Japanese battle cry Tennōheika Banzai ('His Majesty the Emperor will live 10 000 years’). This tactic was used when the Japanese commanders of infantry battalions foresaw that a battle was about to be lost. It is often co-related to the word kamikaze, although usually banzai refers to infantry tactics and kamikaze to air tactics.
Germany wants to takes Stalingrad, doesn't let civilians to leave the city because Staling doesn't want to give it up
Soviets could afford to replace men and resources, but Germans could not
Gives Darwin a black eye, but Nazis used up all the equipment
Germany's goal: Take Russia out of the war, capture valuable oil fields in Causasus
Outcome: Germany lost vast numbers of personnel and equipment and the USSR turned on Germany
Airborne assault cut up coastline from the reinforcements so they had to go fight through the troopers
Japanese thought they destroyed 4 aircraft carriers at Midway
They just hit the York town, and attacked the same one four times (how the hell do you mess that one up lmao, everytime they hit it people on board kept repairing it until they gave up by the 3rd time)
However they didn't target the repair stations sooo uh skill issue everything was running back up quickly anyway
Tricked Hitler by dressing a dead homeless man in a British commander uniform, filled his pockets and handcuffed a briefcase and put documents that said they were going to invade in Greece, and then Italy
Inflatable tanks were used to trick Hitler \
WW2, 1927 Japan had started fighting in China
Japan hoped they'd get coal, fuel and iron
But took a lot more resources to do it
Japan left the league of nations so they couldn't do anything
They needed resources, if they want to get them they'd have to knock the US out of the war
Japan was wrecked by the Great Depression and the army was made up with men from rural areas seeking to assuage their pride
People couldn't build buildings with wood because their resources were Sacre
September 1939
1st – Germany invades Poland
3rd – War declared
17th – USSR invade Poland
27th – Warsaw surrendered
November 1939 – March 1940
Winter war – Finland invaded but fails?
April 1940
Norway and Denmark (6 April) invaded by Germany
June 1940
Italy enters war
USSR occupies Baltic States
*Phoney war ends*
July1940
Invasion of France
Battle of Britain
Invasion of France
Germany goes through Belgium + Majano (?) line
Germany flies through the forrest
Dunkirk
Britain was able to get 338 000 allied soldiers out of beach
Dunkirk
Britain sends all soldiers to Dunkirk and get stuck (surrounded)
Battle of Britain
10 July – 31 October 1940
Battle of Britain
Belligerents: Great Britain, Canada vs Germany, Italy
Units: Royal Air Force, RCAF vs Luftwaffe, Corpo Aereo Italiano
Britain operated at night in the dark (complete blackout – heavy drapes, no street lights, no headlights, etc)
Britain told people to eat carrots to get better eyesight (auto car accidents)
Britain found German planes at night and shot them down
Battle of Stalingrad
23 August – 2 February 1943
Belligerents: Germany, Romania, Italy, Croatia vs USSR (Russia)
1.2 million soviet citizens killed
Very few survive the war
Soviets were able to replace men, however Germans couldn't – lose whole army
Germany forced to retreat
Germany wanted to take Russia out of war and get valuable oil fields in Caucasus
Britain developed radar – to hide from Germans, they said their pilots ate a lot of carrots
Germany couldn't understand Polish on radio
War of attrition
Who could shoot down more people + aircrafts
First air based battle in world history
First loss Nazi's experienced
Hitler's goal was destruction of Soviet Union
Therefore needed Britain out of war
Britain ended up entering war more actively
Therefore Germany had to fight two fronts
Japan invaded China because it needed iron, coal and oil
Japan brutally murdered many soldiers and civilians
Disappointed by Japan's actions, the US gave a loan to help China
26 July 1939: termination of treaty of commerce and navigation
27 Sep 1940: Japan became allies with Germany and Italy
26 July 1941: USA stopped all assets going to Japan (Oil)
Japan lost 94% of oil supply after US stopping supplying
Pearl harbour was almost defenceless because they weren't expecting Japan to attack
7 December 1941 Pearl Harbour was bombed
Bombing destroyed many battleships, including USS Arizona, however their main ships and aircrafts were not present at the time
After bombing of Pearl Harbour, Japan took over other islands in the Pacific
This angered US, causing the US to join the war
Japan's rural rare were impacted by Great Depression
Japan's imperial army was enlarged with men from rural areas seeking employment
Japan was not treated fairly in Treaty of Versailles – goes towards sense of pride and worth for Japan
White Australia policy – Japanese took this personall