Affect of WW2 on Germany

Question 1

Wat was area Bombing?

Answer 1

When the RAF Bombed civilian targets as well as military targets.

Question 2

Give 2 examples of effects area bombing had on civilians?

Answer 2

1. Homelessness
2. Civilian Deaths
3. Resources destroyed

Question 3

When was rationing introduced?

Answer 3

August 1939

Question 4

Give 1 example of foods they would have been given in their rations?

Answer 4

1. Bread
2. Potatoes
3. Preserves

Question 5

Why did Area Bombing cause refugees?

Answer 5

Because lots of people lost their homes and had know where to go.

Question 6

Was Labour Forced or optional?

Answer 6

Forced

Question 7

Did women enter the workforce in small or large numbers?

Answer 7

Large Numbers

Question 8

Roughly how many men fought for Germany in WW2?

Answer 8

13.7 Million Men

Question 9

Who were the Edelweiss pirates?

Answer 9

The main youth opposition group during the war.

Question 10

Who were the Edelweiss prirates primarily made up of?

Answer 10

Working class boys

Question 11

Who were the white rose group?

Answer 11

Started by a group of university students the white rose went around handing out anti nazi leaflets and marched through cities in protest

Question 12

What happened to Hans and Sophie Scholl the ring leaders of the white rose?

Answer 12

Arrested and sentenced to the guillotine.

Question 13

What groups of musicians were created during the war?

Answer 13

Swing youth and Jazz youth groups.

Question 14

What type of people made up the jazz and swing youth groups?

Answer 14

Middle class young people who rejected nazi policies.

Question 15

At the end of the war roughly how many Jews had been exterminated?

Answer 15

6 million

Question 16

What percent of Germany’s Sinti and Roma people died in concentration camps?

Answer 16

85%

Question 17

What was the first phase of Jewish persecution?

Answer 17

Ghettos

Question 18

What was the main killer in Ghettos ?

Answer 18

Starvation and disease

Question 19

What was phase 2 in the persecution of the Jews?

Answer 19

Mass killings

Question 20

How many Jews had died in the mass killings by 1949?

Answer 20

500,000

Question 21

What was Phase 3 in the persecution of the Jews?

Answer 21

The final solution

Question 22

What was the Final solution?

Answer 22

All Jews and other illegal minorities found were sent to concentration camps where the fit people were worked to death and the weak were killed straight away

Question 23

Did the churches have serious opposition to the Nazis during the war?

Answer 23

No

Question 24

Were the any army plots against the Nazis?

Answer 24

Yes a number of them

Question 25

Was the military plots affective against hitler?

Answer 25

No the military leaders were too busy competing with each other

Question 26

How serious was the opposition?

Answer 26

Not very serious

Question 27

Why was the opposition not very serious?

Answer 27

Because most people were too scared to stand up to it or had other things on their minds