The impact of war 1939-45

Question 1

September 1st 1939

Answer 1

Germany invaded Poland.

Question 2

December 1939

Answer 2

Hitler’s war economy decrees.

Question 3

June 22nd 1941

Answer 3

Germany invaded USSR: Operation Barbarossa.

Question 4

August 1941

Answer 4

Bishop Galen’s sermons against euthanasia.

Question 5

December 1941

Answer 5

Rationalisation Decree.

Question 6

January 1942

Answer 6

Wannsee Conference: Final Solution to exterminate the Jewish people.

Question 7

February 1942

Answer 7

Appointment of Albert Speer as armaments minister.

Question 8

November 1942

Answer 8

German defeat at El Alamein.

Question 9

1942-43

Answer 9

White Rose student group; distribution of anti-Nazi leaflets.

Question 10

1942-44

Answer 10

Transportation of Jewish people to death camps.

Question 11

January 1943

Answer 11

German surrender at Stalingrad.

Question 12

February 18th 1943

Answer 12

Goebbels’ speech rallied the people for a ‘total war’.

Question 13

July 24th 1943

Answer 13

Hamburg firestorm.

Question 14

July 20th 1944

Answer 14

Stauffenberg Bomb Plot failed to overthrow the regime.

Question 15

November 1944

Answer 15

Execution of 12 Edelweiss Pirates in Cologne.

Question 16

May 7th-8th 1945

Answer 16

German surrender: occupation and division of Germany.