Battle of Iwo Jima (World War II, World War I) – Flashcards

Battle of Iwo Jima is a battle during the Pacific War, as known as the part of World War II. This battle started from 19th February and ended at 26th March 1945. It was a war between United States and Japan at a small island near Tokyo called the Iwo Jima. The U.S Marine eventually captured the island from Japan.

small island located 750 miles south of Tokyo. Mostly flat except for a mountain, called Mount Suribachi, located on the southern end of the island.

A battle in an island called Leyte in October 1944 between Japan and United States. United States won in Battle of Leyte Gulf and Japan lost a lot of power, so the United States attacked one of the Japanese island, the Iwo Jima.

Part of World War II. War between Pacific and East Asia from 1941 to 1945.

Operation Detachment

a plan to capture the entire island, including the three Japanese-controlled airfields (including the South Field and the Central Field), to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands.

dug all sorts of tunnels and hiding places all over the island and shot Americans on the shore.

17,845-18,375 dead and missing

6,821 killed

an important strategic point between the United States and mainland Japan. Raised the U.S flag in 1945.

branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection, using the mobility of the United States Navy to, by Congressional mandate, rapidly-deliver combined-arms task forces on land, at sea and in the air.

statue based from a picture taken by Joe Rosenthal, raising the U.S flag on top of Mount Suribachi.

World War which started from 1939 to 1945 and started from the invasion of Poland by Adolf Hitler.

a joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe from September 1939 to October.

a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), and the Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945.

the ideology and practice associated with the 20th-century German Nazi Party and Nazi state as well as other far-right groups. The commander was Adolf Hitler.

a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that practised Nazism. Was founded by Anton Drexler, and Adolf Hitler, and Martin Bormann were the party chairman. Used Holocaust and other strategic bombs to kill a massive amount of people.

a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. The Jews were murdered in concentration camps, such as Auschwitz concentration camp.

a German far-right political leader of the 1920s who was instrumental in the formation of the pan-German and anti-Semitic German Workers' Party. Served as mentor to Adolf Hitler during his early days in politics.

a short-lived political party and the forerunner of the Nazi Party founded by Anton Drexler.

a prominent official in Nazi Germany as head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. He gained immense power within the Third Reich by using his position as Adolf Hitler's private secretary to control the flow of information and access to Hitler.

A common English name for the period of history in Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

The name of the head office of the German Nazi Party, until 1941 Staff of the Deputy Führer was the name.

the title for the deputy head of the Nazi Party. The only person to ever hold this title was Rudolf Hess. This position was created initially as a secretary for Hitler after it was banned subsequent to the abortive Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923.

a prominent politician in Nazi Germany who served in this position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II.

a failed coup attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler and other Kampfbund leaders to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, during 8-9 November 1923.

a league of patriotic fighting societies and the German National Socialist party in Bavaria, Germany, in the 1920s. It included Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party (NSDAP) and its Sturmabteilung.

a paramilitary of the Nazi Party and was founded by Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm. The main purpose were to provide protection and fight with the other paramilitary with opposing party.

A German military officer who is also a founder of the Nazi party and the Sturmabteilung. He was an ally with Adolf Hitler and was executed at the Night of the Long Knives.

a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political extra-judicial executions. Most of the killings were carried out by the Schutzstaffel and the Gestapo.

a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party in Nazi Germany. Under Heinrich Himmler's direction, it grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the most powerful organizations in Nazi Germany.

the Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Nazi Germany.

a special title and rank that existed between the years of 1925 and 1945 for the commander of the Schutzstaffel. It was created by Joseph Berchtold and Heinrich Himmler, and Julius Schreck are one of the people who achieved this title.

an early senior Nazi Party member and a co-founder of both the Sturmabteilung and Schutzstaffel.

a senior Nazi official and close confidant of Adolf Hitler. He was born in Munich in 1898 and served in World War I, and shortly afterwards joined right-wing paramilitary units.

a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. The trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

An Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie at Sarajevo in 28th June 1914. They were shot by Gavrilo Princip. The objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Yugoslavia.

An Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia who was born in 18 December 1863 and was assassinated in 28 June 1914.

A member of the Black Hand society who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. This lead to the July Ultimatum.

a diplomatic crisis among the major powers of Europe in the summer of 1914 that led to World War I. Immediately after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Austria-Hungary and Kingdom of Serbia started a war.

secret military society formed on 9 May 1911 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia, led by Dragutin Dimitrijević also known as "Apis".

a Serbian colonel who led a military group that organized the overthrow of the Serbian government and led the Black Hand society.

A coup in which the Serbian king Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated inside the Royal Palace in Belgrade on the night of 28-29 May 1903 by a military group led by Dragutin Dimitrijević.

a king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 who belonged to the Obrenović dynasty.

a Serbian dynasty that ruled Serbia from 1815 to 1903 which grew power by Miloš Obrenović I in the Second Serbian Uprising.

Prince of Serbia from 1815 to 1860 and participated in the First and Second Serbian Uprising, and also founded the House of Obrenović.

an uprising of Serbs in the Sanjak of Smederevo against the Ottoman Empire from February 15, 1804 to October 7, 1813, and eventually led to the Serbian Revolution.

the second phase of the Serbian Revolution against the Ottoman Empire, which erupted shortly after the re-annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire, in 1813

constitutional change in Serbia taking place between 1804 and 1835 from the Ottoman province. Some events that happened during the revolution were: the first and the second uprising of Serbia, and the Hadži Prodan's revolt.

a revolt launched by Hadži Prodan in 1814 against the Ottoman empire which did not succeed.