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What were the advancements in the sea?

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better submarines and torpedos, solar and radar technology, aircraft carriers

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What were the improvements on land?

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Amphibious tanks, dummy tanks by Allies, Panzer and Tiger tanks by Germans, improvements on grenades and guns

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What were the improvements in the air?

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Britain: Hurricane and Spitfire

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What was the Manhattan Project?

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the plan to develop the atomic bomb

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Describe 3 impacts of these new technologies.

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war was more mobile, war involved civilians, war had a destructive power

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Why did Hitler want Poland?

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Poland got ‘German Land’ due to the Treaty of Versailles, Polish corridor gave access to Baltic Sea which would help during war

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What was Blitzkrieg?

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the German war strategy, “lightning war,” using tanks and planes to take the enemy by surprise.

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Who later invaded Poland from the east?

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Stalin / USSR

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What was Britain and France’s reaction to the invasion of Poland?

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didn’t react

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Who was Prime Minister in Britain after Neville Chamberlain?

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Winston Churchill

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What was the Phoney War?

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The period of the Second World War where French and German armies waited on either side of the Maginot line but neither ever attacked

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How did Germany end up taking over France?

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used blitzkrieg and avoided the Maginot line

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What was Operation Dynamo?

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35,000 soldiers (allied) were evacuated from Dunkirk

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What was set up in the area that Germany occupied in France?

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Vichy France

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What was Vichy France?

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A puppet government in southern France under Nazi control

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What was the code name for the invasion of Britain by the Germans?

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Operation Sea Lion

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What was the Battle of Britain?

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Campaign of aerial attacks on Britain by Luftwaffe

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What were dogfights?

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Airplane battles

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Why did Germany lose the Battle of Britain?

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British had better supplies (Spitfires and radars), Germans had to go back to Germany to refuel

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What was the Blitz?

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Germany’s night time bombings of Great Britain’s cities, industrial centers, etc.

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What were Hitler’s main aims during the Blitz?

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ports, powerhouse, factories

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What was life like in wartime Britain?

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evacuation of children, ration books, 7 million women joined the workforce

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What was Operation Barbarossa?

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German invasion of the Soviet Union

24
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What was the ‘scorched earth’ war tactic?

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Red Army destroyed anything useful to the enemy

25
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Why did the Red Army have an opportunity to stop the Germans?

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Germans weren’t ready for the cold, many soldiers died or froze to death, fuel in tanks froze

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How did the Red Army defeat the Germans in Stalingrad?

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encircled them and cut off supplies

27
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Describe the Battle of Stalingrad?

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city war zone battle in which an estimated 1 million soldiers died in

28
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What was the Battle of Stalingrad considered as?

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main turning point of WWII

29
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Why did the US enter war?

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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

30
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How many people died during the use of the atomic bomb in Japan in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbour?

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120,000 civillians

31
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At this point who made up the allies and who made up the axis?

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Allies: France Britain US

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What was Operation Torch?

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Allied invasion of Vichy France-controlled North Africa

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What was Operation Avalanche?

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Allied invasion of Italy

34
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How many tonnes of Allied shipping did Germans sink?

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3 million tonnes

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How did Allies get an advantage during the Battle of the Atlantic?

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Cracked the Germans code they used during the war

36
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What was Operation Overload?

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US, British and Canadian troops land in Normandy

37
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How did the allies trick the Germans on D-Day?

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gave them false plans so they would be stationed further east

38
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What was D-Day?

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The Allied invasion of France to liberate Europe from Germany, largest seaborne invasion in history with over 7,000 ships and landing craft

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What was the result of D-Day?

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Paris was liberated

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Why did the Allies bomb germany day and night?

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to destroy production

41
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Why did the Red Army continue offense even after the success of operation Bagration?

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inflicted revenge on civillians

42
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What was Germany’s last offence?

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Battle of the bulge: repeated of the attack through the Ardennes, but were defeated

43
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How did Hitler die?

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He shot himself

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How many people died throughout WWII?

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60 million

45
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How were Nazi war criminals punished?

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on trial and some were executed

46
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Who were 2 most powerful countries post-WWII?

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US and USSR

47
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What was formed to maintain peace after WWII?

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the UN

48
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What was formed to bring European countries together?

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the EU

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