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Great Britain World War II France Germany The Soviet Union World War II and the Marshall Plan

WORTH: What was the Blitzkrieg? This was the term given to the German tactic of using overwhelming armored force moving at high speeds supported by airpower SUBJECT: World War II MAIN

WORTH: What was Operation Barbarossa? This is was the Code name given to Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union MAIN SUBJECT: World War II

WORTH: Who were Dwight D. Eisenhower moving from west to the east, and Bernard Montgomery moving west from Egypt? These were the two Allied Generals who led a pincer movement in North Africa against the Germans MAIN SUBJECT: World War II

WORTH: What was the Battle of the Bulge? This was the last gasp effort of the Germans in December of 1944 that caught the Allied forces by surprise MAIN SUBJECT: World War II

WORTH: What was the Nazi-Soviet Non- aggression Pact? This was the agreement that was signed by Stalin and Hitler in 1939 which divided Poland between the two and gave Stalin, Romanian, Bessarabia MAIN SUBJECT: World War II

WORTH: Who was Neville Chamberlain? He was the British Prime Minister who went to Munich and returned stating that Hitler would have no more territorial demands on Europe and there would be peace with honor SUBJECT: Great Britain MAIN

WORTH: Who was Winston Churchill ( He was the British War Commander and before the war supported the development of radar) ? He was the British Prime Minister who rallied the British people by giving rousing speeches and ruling with an iron first SUBJECT: Great Britain MAIN

WORTH: What was Operation Sealion? This was the Code name given by Hitler to the invasion of Great Britain by Germany SUBJECT: Great Britain MAIN

WORTH: What was the Lend – Lease Act ? This was the name given to the agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt to supply the British with weapons and supplies in return for the use of British Naval Bases SUBJECT: Great Britain MAIN

WORTH: What was the Fighter ( Spitfire) an fighter-bomber (Hurricane)? These were the two British lanes that defeated the German Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain or the Blitz as the British called it SUBJECT: Great Britain MAIN

WORTH: What was the Maginot Line ? This was the series of forts that were built to protect the German – French border after World War I. ( They didn’t work, The Germans went through Belgium again doh!!! ) SUBJECT: France MAIN

WORTH: Who was General Henri Petain? At the age of 84 he became the head of the new French government that cooperated with the Nazis in France. ( He was condemned, but lived his life out in exile off the coast of Brittany) SUBJECT: France MAIN

WORTH: What was Dunkirk? This was the beach in northern France where over 330,000 British and French troops were evacuated while under attack from the German blitzkrieg SUBJECT: France MAIN

WORTH: What was Vichy, which became the name for the government. ( once the home of the famous, healing,Roman baths)? This was the town in France that became the center of the pro- German government following Hitler’s two month overwhelming victory over France in SUBJECT: France MAIN

WORTH: Who was Edouard Daladier? He was the French Premier who approved the Munich pact and the appeasement of Hitler’s false promises for no more European expansion, he also approved France’s war declaration in SUBJECT: France MAIN

WORTH: What was the Third Reich? This was the name given to Hitler’s new Empire which threatened all of Europe SUBJECT: Germany MAIN

WORTH: What was Anschluss? This was the name given to the union of Austria and Germany which was inevitable according to Hitler SUBJECT: Germany MAIN

WORTH: What was the Spanish Civil War ( Spain)? This was where Hitler tested his military blitzkrieg and thousands of civilians were killed as the opposing sides in the upcoming struggle tested their weapons and ideology in SUBJECT: Germany MAIN

WORTH: What was the German Rhineland? This was the area of Germany that Hitler reoccupied in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Agreements of SUBJECT: Germany MAIN

WORTH: What was the Sudetenland? This was the area of Czechoslovakia that was annexed by Hitler in 1939 after rioting broke out instigated by the Nazis SUBJECT: Germany MAIN

WORTH: What were Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland? These were the Baltic countries that were occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940 and the one country that resisted and remained independent SUBJECT: Soviet Union MAIN

WORTH: What was Operation Barbarossa? This was the code name given to Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 which turned out to be disastrous for the German army SUBJECT: Soviet Union MAIN

WORTH: What were Moscow, Stalingrad, and Leningrad? These were the three Soviet cities that Hitler could not and would not take, and signaled the beginning of the end for the Third Reich SUBJECT: Soviet Union MAIN

WORTH: What was Manchuria? This was the area that was invaded by the Soviet Union two days after the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima SUBJECT: Soviet Union MAIN

WORTH: What was Warsaw ( still a symbol of Jewish resistance to the Nazi war machine ) ? This was the city that resisted the Nazis, while the Soviet Army waited outside the city, until the Jewish guerillas had been annihilated SUBJECT: Soviet Union MAIN