Chapter 21

Question 1

What was one of the main causes of war weariness in 1917-18?

Answer 1

Lack of vital foodstuffs, so the Nazis were determined not to make the same mistake.

Question 2

When and what was Phase 1 of the war?

Answer 2

Blitzkrieg, September 1939 - June 1941

Question 3

What message did Nazi propaganda convey in Phase 1 of the war?

Answer 3

That Hitler was a military genius responsible for the quick and easy victories of the German army against the Allies.

Question 4

When did Germany defeat France?

Answer 4

June 1940

Question 5

When and what was Phase 2 of the war?

Answer 5

The spreading war, June - December 1941

Question 6

When did Germany declare war on the USA?

Answer 6

December 1941

Question 7

When did the USSR launch a counter attack and halted the German advance?

Answer 7

December 1941

Question 8

When did Germany invade the USSR?

Answer 8

June 1941

Question 9

How was the invasion of the USSR presented to the German public?

Answer 9

As a racial war against Jewish-Bolshevism.

Question 10

What undermined the Nazi propaganda that claimed the eastern front push was successful?

Answer 10

Letters home front soldiers on the front told a different story.

Question 11

What did Nazi propaganda claim was behind the British, American, and Soviet forces?

Answer 11

A Jewish international conspiracy to destroy the Third Reich and the Aryan race.

Question 12

What and when was Phase 3 of the war?

Answer 12

The turning of the tide, January 1942 - January 1943

Question 13

What defeat was a major turning point in the war?

Answer 13

The defeat at Stalingrad.

Question 14

Why was the defeat at Stalingrad a big blow to the Germans at home?

Answer 14

Goebbels had made out via his propaganda that victory was near.

Question 15

What and when was Phase for of the war?

Answer 15

Total War, February 1943 - May 1945

Question 16

What is Total War?

Answer 16

When the entire state, population and resources, are mobilised in the war effort.

Question 17

When was Goebbels’ Total War speech?

Answer 17

February 1943

Question 18

When did Germany surrender unconditionally?

Answer 18

8 May 1945

Question 19

When were the D-Day landings?

Answer 19

June 1944

Question 20

What was the main criticism of Goebbels’ Total War speech?

Answer 20

That it should have been done sooner as by the beginnings on 1943 it was clear Germany was struggling.

Question 21

When was defeat accepted as inevitable?

Answer 21

August 1944

Question 22

When did the Allied bombing campaigns begin?

Answer 22

March 1942

Question 23

What gave the German people some brief hope in the face of relentless bombing?

Answer 23

Claims by Goebbels that the Nazis had developed some new secret weapons. These were the V1 and V2 rockets that had no impact.

Question 24

What was the aim and impact of the Allied bombing campaigns?

Answer 24

To break the spirit of the German people and it did this to a great extent, but not completely.

Question 25

What proportion of the civilian population was left homeless by the bombing and evacuation from the east?

Answer 25

1/4

Question 26

When war broke broke out on 3 September 1939, what did Hitler impose on workers?

Answer 26

Wage reductions, bans on bonuses and overtime.

Question 27

What was the impact of wage reductions and the ban on bonuses and overtime?

Answer 27

Workers were not happy and just a month later in October the Nazis were forced to lift the band and raise wages back to their previous levels.

Question 28

What percentage of the workforce were women by May 1944?

Answer 28

51%

Question 29

When was the defeat at Stalingrad?

Answer 29

January 1943

Question 30

When was membership of the HJ and BDM made compulsory?

Answer 30

1939