World War 2 in Europe: Part 3

Question 1

Stalingrad

Answer 1

• battle in Soviet Union
• August, 1942
• Stalingrad major industrial center
• Germans were beat back
• Germans surrendered to Soviet Army and harsh winter conditions (February, 1943)
• 100,00 German soldiers killed
• 80,000 captured Germans

Question 2

North Africa

Answer 2

• had been controlled by Italy and Germany
• in 1942 under Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Allies struggled in North Africa against Germans (Erwin Rommel)
• Germans were forced back through Egypt and Libyan border (October, 1942)
• British troops regained Lybia (January, 1943)
• Allies landed more troops in Morocco and Nigeria (force the Germans to fight two different fronts
• Germans surrendered North Africa (May, 1943)

Question 3

Italy

Answer 3

• Allies able to push north across the Mediterranean and into Italy (July 1943)
• Sicily conquered in six days
• king Victor Emanuel the Third fires Mussolini
• current prime minister signs a secret document of surrender

Question 4

D-Day

Answer 4

• Operation Overlord (June 6, 1944)
• • allied code name for attack on France to run Germans out
• • Allies troops landed on beaches of Normandy
• • heavy artillery from the Germans
• • troops regained control of Paris (August 25, 1944)

Question 5

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 5

• German launch major counter offensive
• German advances weren’t stopped till March 1945
• Soviets start invading Germans from the east

Question 6

VE - Day

Answer 6

• victory in Europe Day
• 7/8 May 1945
• formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces.

Question 7

April 27, 1945

Answer 7

• Mussolini and his mistress were caught trying to escape Italy
• both were shot
• bodies dumped on piazza and their bodies were spat on and threw stones

Question 8

Hitler

Answer 8

• April 30, 1945
• He and his wife committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin
• Hitler by gun shot, Eva but cyanide poisoning
• bodies doused with gasoline then burned

Question 9

WWII

Answer 9

• more than 70,000,000 people fought
• 55,000,000 people died
• 40% Soviet troops (lost most lives)
• millions more died from genocide
• 12,000,000 left homeless

Question 10

February, 1945

Answer 10

• Germany and the city of Berlin divided into four zones

- Great Britain in one zone, France, United States, and Soviet Union

Question 11

1949

Answer 11

• Germany split into two halves
• western half is democratic federal republic
• eastern half is communist German democratic republic

Question 12

United Nations

Answer 12

• was created in 1945
• aim to resolve disputes and maintain peace
• United States, Russia, China, France, etc.

Question 13

World Bank

Answer 13

• 1945

- designed to regulate global economy and prevent another world wide depression

Question 14

Europe

Answer 14

• United States helps rebuild using the Marshall Plan
• Marshall Plan rebuilds shattered European economies
• wanted to have over-seas products
• counteracts communism
• 1948-1970 economies grew

Question 15

NATO

Answer 15

• 1949
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• military and political alliance led by the united states
• created because of communist threat and future German/Russian aggression

Question 16

which leader trying to escape the city was caught, executed, and publicly put on display

Answer 16

• Benito Mussolini

Question 17

after WWII Germany was divided into _________ zones

Answer 17

• four

Question 18

on December 7, 1941 Japan bombed the United States Navy base stationed at _________

Answer 18

• Pearl Harbor

Question 19

Germany launched its last major offensive in the ________, trying to break out of the Allies squeezing in around

Answer 19

• Battle of the Bulge

Question 20

in which battle were the Soviets able to surround the German troops and cut off their supply lines

Answer 20

• Battle of Stalingrad