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Ch29-Jeopardy World War II and the Marshall Plan
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World War II and the Marshall Plan
100 200 300 400 500 Great Britain 100 200 300 400 500 France 100 200 300 400 500 Germany 100 200 300 400 500 The Soviet Union 100 200 300 400 500
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What was the Blitzkrieg?
MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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What was Operation Barbarossa?
MAIN This is was the Code name given to Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union. SUBJECT: World War II 500 400 300 200 100
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Who were Dwight D. Eisenhower moving from west to the east, and Bernard Montgomery moving west from Egypt? MAIN These were the two Allied Generals who led a pincer movement in North Africa against the Germans. SUBJECT: World War II 500 400 300 200 100
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What was the Battle of the Bulge?
MAIN This was the last gasp effort of the Germans in December of 1944 that caught the Allied forces by surprise. SUBJECT: World War II 500 400 300 200 100
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What was the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact?
MAIN This was the agreement that was signed by Stalin and Hitler in 1939 which divided Poland between the two and gave Stalin, Romanian, Bessarabia. SUBJECT: World War II 500 400 300 200 100
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Who was Neville Chamberlain?
MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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What was Operation Sealion?
MAIN This was the Code name given by Hitler to the invasion of Great Britain by Germany. SUBJECT: Great Britain 500 400 300 200 100
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What was the Lend – Lease Act ?
MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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What was the Fighter ( Spitfire) an fighter-bomber (Hurricane)?
MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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What was the Maginot Line ?
MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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Who was General Henri Petain?
MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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What was Dunkirk? MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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What was Vichy, which became the name for the government
What was Vichy, which became the name for the government. ( once the home of the famous, healing,Roman baths)? MAIN 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 1940. SUBJECT: France 500 400 300 200 100
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Who was Edouard Daladier?
MAIN 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 1939. SUBJECT: France 500 400 300 200 100
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What was the Third Reich?
MAIN This was the name given to Hitler’s new Empire which threatened all of Europe. SUBJECT: Germany 500 400 300 200 100
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What was Anschluss? MAIN This was the name given to the union of Austria and Germany which was inevitable according to Hitler. SUBJECT: Germany 500 400 300 200 100
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What was the Spanish Civil War ( Spain)?
MAIN 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 1936. SUBJECT: Germany 500 400 300 200 100
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What was the German Rhineland?
MAIN This was the area of Germany that Hitler reoccupied in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Agreements of 1925. SUBJECT: Germany 500 400 300 200 100
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What was the Sudetenland?
MAIN This was the area of Czechoslovakia that was annexed by Hitler in 1939 after rioting broke out instigated by the Nazis. SUBJECT: Germany 500 400 300 200 100
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What were Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland?
MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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What was Operation Barbarossa?
MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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What were Moscow, Stalingrad, and Leningrad?
MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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What was Manchuria? MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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What was Warsaw ( still a symbol of Jewish resistance to the Nazi war machine ) ?
MAIN 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 500 400 300 200 100
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