Conflict In Europe

Question 1

How many British civilians died in the blitz

Answer 1

23,000 British civilians

Question 2

Liddell Hart on the Blitz.

Answer 2

Liddell Hart wrote that the Luftwaffe were unsuccessful in their aim to destroy British morale. British morale was only bolstered by a defiance and willingness to defeat Germany.

Question 3

Why was the bombing of the British citizenry ineffectual?

Answer 3

It allowed the RAF to rebuild and improve the efficiency of their strategy, contributing to Allied victory in the Battle of Britain.

Question 4

When did the Battle of Britain commence?

Answer 4

The effective use of the Luftwaffe in Blitzkrieg was followed closely by the Axis’ launch of Operation Sea-Lion in 1940, commencing the Battle of Britain between the Luftwaffe and RAF, with the aim of gaining control of the airspace over Britain and the English Channel.

Question 5

How many aircraft did the Luftwaffe have compared to Britain in 1939?

Answer 5

In 1939, the Luftwaffe was a formidable force, with 4,000 aircraft compared to Britain’s 1,660 aircraft, and was highly effective during Blitzkrieg, in which German forces rapidly invaded and occupied Poland, the low countries and France during the first year of WWII.

Question 6

How was Britain able to successfully launch air attacks on Germany?

Answer 6

Considerable improvements in RAF strategy and RADAR.

Question 7

Nazi foreign policy AJP TAYLOR

Answer 7

AJP TAYLOR
“lebensraum did not drive Germany to war”
“Stalin slipped into the delusion that Hitler would keep his word”
“Hitler aimed to make Germany the dominant force in Europe”

Question 8

Nazi Foreign policy Frank McDonough

Answer 8

FRANK MCDONOUGH

“Hitler was marching very firmly on the road to war”

Question 9

Fall of low countries AJP TAYLOR

Answer 9

AJP TAYLOR

“Hitler counted on quick victories achieved at little cost”

Question 10

AIR WAR DENNIS RICHARD

Answer 10

“by earning Britain great breathing dove they made possible the final victory and the liberation of France from Nazi terror”

Question 11

AIR WAR RICHARD OVERY

Answer 11

“The German economy gradually creaked almost to a halt”

Question 12

Liddel Hart

Answer 12

“It had not succeeded in its objective of destroying either the RAF’s fighter strength or the British morale”

Question 13

Operation Barbarossa DAVID CHRISTIAN

Answer 13

“A longer, more savage war enabled Russia to exploit to the fill its huge reserves of raw materials and labour. In this sense, the battle of Moscow was a turning point”

Question 14

Operation Barbarossa WINSTON CHURCHILL

Answer 14

“The russian campaign tore the guts out of the Wehrmacht”

Question 15

Battle of Stalingrad MARTIN MCCAJLEY

Answer 15

“Germany’s greatest defeat was a turning point. From now on it was not a matter of how the war would end, but when”

Question 16

Battle of Kursk RICHARD OVERY

Answer 16

“The battle of Kursk tore the heart out of the German army”

“Soviet success at Kursk was the single most important victory of the war”

Question 17

North Africa Campaign WILLIAM SHIRER

Answer 17

“The initiative has passed from Hitler’s hands, never to return”

“In the snows of Stalingrad and in the burning sands of the North African desert, a great and terrible Nazi dream was destroyed”

Question 18

North Africa Campaign WINSTON CHURCHILL

Answer 18

“Before Alamein we never had a victory, after Alamein we never had a defeat”

“In the UK many Church Bells rang for the first time since the beginning of the war”

Question 19

Civilians ARTHUR MARWICK

Answer 19

“The struggle for civilians at home initiated lasting social changes” - Britain

Question 20

CIVILIANS ISAAC DEUTSCHER

Answer 20

“Stalin artificially boosted the nationalist emotion as a mater of policy”

Question 21

Civilians Helene D’Encausse

Answer 21

“The recovery of production was largely due to the almost superhuman efforts of the civilians, especially the women”

Question 22

Civilians Richard Overy

Answer 22

“There was an exceptional, brutal form of total war”

Question 23

Liberation of France Andrew Roberts

Answer 23

“Churchill’s most important single contribution to the Allied victory”

Question 24

Soviet counter offensives JONATHAN JORDAN

Answer 24

“Operation Bagrations was Hitler’s worst military setback of the war”

“Bagration dramatically turned the tide of the war against the Third Reich”