World War II in Europe: A 96-Card Chronology from Versailles to Nuremberg
Memorize the European theatre of WWII with 96 flashcards: Versailles, appeasement, Blitzkrieg, Dunkirk, Stalingrad, Overlord, Bagration and Nuremberg.
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The European theatre of the Second World War ran from 1 September 1939 to May 1945 and cost at least 39 million lives. Deck IN1229 — World War II: European Theater (96 cards) on Flip It doesn't ask you to interpret any of it: it asks for dates, operation names, treaties and commanders, in the order they happened.
Study this deck: World War II: European Theater
1 / 10What were the dates of the European theatre of World War II?
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
The road to 1939
The first third of the deck covers causes: the Treaty of Versailles (1919) with the loss of Alsace-Lorraine and the Saarland, reparations and the demilitarised Rhineland; Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922 alongside King Victor Emmanuel III; Hitler as chancellor and führer in 1933; the Reichstag fire and the decree that abolished speech, assembly, privacy and press freedom; the Night of the Long Knives (1934); lebensraum and the Nazi racial hierarchy; camps from 1933, Kristallnacht in 1938, mass killing from 1941.
Then the alliance web and the failure of appeasement: Rome-Berlin Axis (1936), Anti-Comintern Pact (1936, Italy joining in 1937), Pact of Steel (1939), Molotov-Ribbentrop (August 1939); Rhineland remilitarised 1936, Anschluss 13 March 1938, Munich Agreement 30 September 1938 signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain and Daladier, Bohemia and Moravia occupied 15 March 1939, Tiso's Slovak Republic.
The war years
Gleiwitz incident, 1.5 million Wehrmacht soldiers into Poland, Blitzkrieg and the Luftwaffe, Franco-British declarations on 3 September, the Soviet entry on 17 September, Polish surrender on 28 September, the Phoney War, the Winter War with the Mannerheim Line and the Molotov cocktail, Operation Weserübung, Quisling in Norway, 10 May 1940 (Low Countries, Churchill, Iceland), Dunkirk, Leopold III's surrender, Paris on 14 June, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, Barbarossa in June 1941, Stalingrad, Italy in 1943, Rome in June 1944, Operation Overlord, Operation Bagration, Berlin, Nuremberg, the two Germanys, the Cold War. Hardware cards close it out: Stuka, Sturmgeschütz III, Panzer divisions, Heinz Guderian.
Eight cards from the deck
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| What event started World War II? | Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 |
| What staged attack did Germany use to justify the invasion of Poland? | The Gleiwitz incident |
| What 1938 agreement gave Germany the Sudetenland? | The Munich Agreement (September 30, 1938) |
| What makeshift grenade did the Finns use, naming it after a Soviet official? | The Molotov cocktail |
| What successful Allied evacuation occurred from May 27 to June 4, 1940? | The Dunkirk evacuation (saving 198,000 British and 140,000 French men) |
| What 1942 battle stopped further German invasion of the Soviet Union? | The Battle of Stalingrad |
| What massive Soviet counterattack occurred in eastern Europe in 1944? | Operation Bagration |
| Who was the German general who developed tank warfare doctrines? | General Heinz Guderian |
Two tips for this deck
Correct three cards before you drill them. One card asks for "the three main Axis dictators" and answers Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin: the USSR signed a non-aggression pact in 1939, never joined the Axis, and fought it from June 1941 — answer Hitler, Mussolini, and add Hirohito or Antonescu if a third is wanted. Another asks for "the two main Allied powers in Europe" and lists four. A third says Mussolini "was hanged": he was shot by partisans on 28 April 1945 and hung up afterwards. Rewrite these three before drilling.
Treat the surrender dates as separate events. The deck gives 8 May 1945 for the unconditional surrender and 5 June 1945 for the Berlin Declaration, and opens with an end date of 25 May. They are not contradictions: the act of surrender was signed on 7 May and took effect on 8 May, while on 5 June the Allies formally assumed supreme authority over a Germany that no longer had a government.
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