History - Battles of WWII

Question 1

Hitler invades Poland

Answer 1

September 1939

-starts WW2

Question 2

Battle for the Atlantic

Answer 2

1939-1945

• longest campaign
• Germany took control of shipping routes to crowd Atlantic (stop Britain from receiving supplies from US/Canada)
• submarine warfare
• British captured a U-Boat and cracked German code

Question 3

War in North Africa

Answer 3

June 1940-May 1943

• between Allies (Britain, America, Russia) and Axis (Germany, Japan, Italy)
• war for North Africa - shipping routes between Britain and India

Question 4

Battle of Britain

Answer 4

July-September 1940

• Germany attacks British airstrips, RADAR bases with Luftwaffe
• Luftwaffe - Herman Goering
• Hitler list battle - attacked London civilians to ‘break’ Britain

Question 5

London Blitz

Answer 5

September 1940

• Luftwaffe bombed London for 57 days
• 1000 planes every night
• demoralize Britain, but pride was strengthened (Churchill)

Question 6

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 6

June 1941-1945

• ‘Lebenstraum’ policy
• attacked USSR - lots of space, Aryans deserved to live there
• largest campaign of WW2 (10 000 000 soldiers)
• unsuccessful - too cold, Russia had a better/faster supply line

Question 7

Hitler invades Western Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, France)

Answer 7

May-September 1940

• Germany uses bombs
• 6 weeks to take France, attacked other countries through France

Question 8

Japan bombs Pearl Harbour

Answer 8

7th December 1941

• USA enters war
• Japanese wanted Philippines (controlled by USA)
• take out USA quickly - had a strong economy and produced many weapons
• unsuccessful - 2 air force carriers not moored, USA still had some navel resources

Question 9

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 9

August 1945

Question 10

Japanese surrender

Answer 10

2nd September 1945

• end of war
• Japan could not afford to lose any more people