World War 2

Question 1

What were the advancements in the sea?

Answer 1

better submarines and torpedos, solar and radar technology, aircraft carriers

Question 2

What were the improvements on land?

Answer 2

Amphibious tanks, dummy tanks by Allies, Panzer and Tiger tanks by Germans, improvements on grenades and guns

Question 3

What were the improvements in the air?

Answer 3

Britain: Hurricane and Spitfire

Question 4

What was the Manhattan Project?

Answer 4

the plan to develop the atomic bomb

Question 5

Describe 3 impacts of these new technologies.

Answer 5

war was more mobile, war involved civilians, war had a destructive power

Question 6

Why did Hitler want Poland?

Answer 6

Poland got ‘German Land’ due to the Treaty of Versailles, Polish corridor gave access to Baltic Sea which would help during war

Question 7

What was Blitzkrieg?

Answer 7

the German war strategy, “lightning war,” using tanks and planes to take the enemy by surprise.

Question 8

Who later invaded Poland from the east?

Answer 8

Stalin / USSR

Question 9

What was Britain and France’s reaction to the invasion of Poland?

Answer 9

didn’t react

Question 10

Who was Prime Minister in Britain after Neville Chamberlain?

Answer 10

Winston Churchill

Question 11

What was the Phoney War?

Answer 11

The period of the Second World War where French and German armies waited on either side of the Maginot line but neither ever attacked

Question 12

How did Germany end up taking over France?

Answer 12

used blitzkrieg and avoided the Maginot line

Question 13

What was Operation Dynamo?

Answer 13

35,000 soldiers (allied) were evacuated from Dunkirk

Question 14

What was set up in the area that Germany occupied in France?

Answer 14

Vichy France

Question 15

What was Vichy France?

Answer 15

A puppet government in southern France under Nazi control

Question 16

What was the code name for the invasion of Britain by the Germans?

Answer 16

Operation Sea Lion

Question 17

What was the Battle of Britain?

Answer 17

Campaign of aerial attacks on Britain by Luftwaffe

Question 18

What were dogfights?

Answer 18

Airplane battles

Question 19

Why did Germany lose the Battle of Britain?

Answer 19

British had better supplies (Spitfires and radars), Germans had to go back to Germany to refuel

Question 20

What was the Blitz?

Answer 20

Germany’s night time bombings of Great Britain’s cities, industrial centers, etc.

Question 21

What were Hitler’s main aims during the Blitz?

Answer 21

ports, powerhouse, factories

Question 22

What was life like in wartime Britain?

Answer 22

evacuation of children, ration books, 7 million women joined the workforce

Question 23

What was Operation Barbarossa?

Answer 23

German invasion of the Soviet Union

Question 24

What was the ‘scorched earth’ war tactic?

Answer 24

Red Army destroyed anything useful to the enemy

Question 25

Why did the Red Army have an opportunity to stop the Germans?

Answer 25

Germans weren't ready for the cold, many soldiers died or froze to death, fuel in tanks froze

Question 26

How did the Red Army defeat the Germans in Stalingrad?

Answer 26

encircled them and cut off supplies

Question 27

Describe the Battle of Stalingrad?

Answer 27

city war zone battle in which an estimated 1 million soldiers died in

Question 28

What was the Battle of Stalingrad considered as?

Answer 28

main turning point of WWII

Question 29

Why did the US enter war?

Answer 29

Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

Question 30

How many people died during the use of the atomic bomb in Japan in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbour?

Answer 30

120,000 civillians

Question 31

At this point who made up the allies and who made up the axis?

Answer 31

Allies: France Britain US

Question 32

What was Operation Torch?

Answer 32

Allied invasion of Vichy France-controlled North Africa

Question 33

What was Operation Avalanche?

Answer 33

Allied invasion of Italy

Question 34

How many tonnes of Allied shipping did Germans sink?

Answer 34

3 million tonnes

Question 35

How did Allies get an advantage during the Battle of the Atlantic?

Answer 35

Cracked the Germans code they used during the war

Question 36

What was Operation Overload?

Answer 36

US, British and Canadian troops land in Normandy

Question 37

How did the allies trick the Germans on D-Day?

Answer 37

gave them false plans so they would be stationed further east

Question 38

What was D-Day?

Answer 38

The Allied invasion of France to liberate Europe from Germany, largest seaborne invasion in history with over 7,000 ships and landing craft

Question 39

What was the result of D-Day?

Answer 39

Paris was liberated

Question 40

Why did the Allies bomb germany day and night?

Answer 40

to destroy production

Question 41

Why did the Red Army continue offense even after the success of operation Bagration?

Answer 41

inflicted revenge on civillians

Question 42

What was Germany's last offence?

Answer 42

Battle of the bulge: repeated of the attack through the Ardennes, but were defeated

Question 43

How did Hitler die?

Answer 43

He shot himself

Question 44

How many people died throughout WWII?

Answer 44

60 million

Question 45

How were Nazi war criminals punished?

Answer 45

on trial and some were executed

Question 46

Who were 2 most powerful countries post-WWII?

Answer 46

US and USSR

Question 47

What was formed to maintain peace after WWII?

Answer 47

the UN

Question 48

What was formed to bring European countries together?

Answer 48

the EU