ID Terms

Question 1

What was the Nonaggression Pact?

Answer 1

A pact signed between Germany (Hitler) and the Soviet Union (Stalin) that promised not to attack each other and a Germany claimed Poland and part of Lithuania

Question 2

Blitzkrieg

Answer 2

Lightning War

Question 3

Maginot Line

Answer 3

French fortification built to prevent German invasion

Question 4

Dunkirk

Answer 4

Evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers off harbor of Dunkirk in Northern France between May 26 and June 4 of 1940

Question 5

Vichy Government

Answer 5

A puppet government. French leaders were given northern France after the invasion of Paris and the “authority to still rule”

Question 6

Charles de Gaulle

Answer 6

A French army officer who led the Free French Forces (FFF) against Nazi Germany

Question 7

Winston Churchill

Answer 7

British prime minister

Question 8

Royal Air Force

Answer 8

British Air Force. Excellent planes,. Popular planes spitfire and hurricane + young skilled pilots

Question 9

Luftwaffe

Answer 9

German Air Force. Strong leaders. Lots of planes.

Question 10

Radar

Answer 10

Radar technology made to detect enemies.

Question 11

Enigma

Answer 11

Code breaker. German code broken by Alan Turing.

Question 12

Operation Sea Lion

Answer 12

Hitlers plan to invade Britain by sea and air in July of 1940

Question 13

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 13

Operation launched on June 22nd, 1941 by Hitler to invade the Soviet Union

Question 14

Leningrad

Answer 14

The siege of Leningrad was when Hitler weaponized starvation and killed 800,000 civilians

Question 15

Atlantic Charter

Answer 15

Signed on August 14, 1941 this document stated US and British alliance