Ww2

Question 1

What was hitters foreign policy

Answer 1

Overturn the treaty of Versailles
Retake lost land
United all German speakers under German rule
Lebensraum expand Germany’s borders to create living space
Only Germans can be citizens no Jewish people
Citizens are entitled to a job and a decent standard of living if this cannot be achieved and foreigners should be expelled

Question 2

What is appeasement

Answer 2

When the allied forces just let hitler get away with things

Question 3

What did hitler do from 1934-1935

Answer 3

Hitler realms breaks the treaty of Versailles secretly start building submarines tanks and fighter planes puts in conscription takes Germany off of the league of Nations

Question 4

How does hitler rearming create tension in Europe

Answer 4

Britain and France will be expected to uphold the treaty of Versailles
They were scared that he would invade

Question 5

What was the reaction of allied forces to hitters rearmament

Answer 5

Is France and Britain fought it was responsible let him carry on

Question 6

What did Hitler do in 1936

Answer 6

Hitler enters the Rhineland he sent soldiers into the Rhineland he breaks the treaty again he signed a treaty with Japan and Italy

Question 7

How does Hitler entering the Rhineland create tension in Europe

Answer 7

He is forbidden to go there

He was building it up doing more and breaking more rules on the treaty of Versailles

Question 8

What is the allied response to Hitler entering the Rhineland

Answer 8

No one stop them they believed it was their land and they are just putting people in it Hitler said any resistance and the troops must come back

Question 9

What does Hitler due on the 12th of March 1938

Answer 9

German troops march into Austria

The leader resigned another leader takes over and supports Hitler

Question 10

How does Germany going into Austria create tension in Europe

Answer 10

He could soon be unstoppable he had broken treaty again

Question 11

What was the allied response to Hitler marching into Austria

Answer 11

They didn’t do anything it wasn’t bad enough Austria wanted to be German land

Question 12

What does Hitler do September 1938

Answer 12

Negotiate and gets the Sudetenland

Question 13

How does this create tension in Europe

Answer 13

They hoped there would now be peace

Question 14

What was the allied response to Hitler negotiating the Sudetenland

Answer 14

They gave land to him without inviting the persons land it was to the meeting

Question 15

What did Hitler do in 1938 March

Answer 15

Hitler invade the rest of Czechoslovakia took it for living space

Question 16

How does Hitler taking Czechoslovakia create tension in Europe

Answer 16

The allied forces realised he wasn’t gonna stop

Question 17

What was the allied response to Hitler taking Czechoslovakia

Answer 17

They started to prepare for war they agreed to help Poland if they needed it

Question 18

What did Hitler do August 1939

Answer 18

Signs the Nazi soviet pact Hitler signs a treaty with Stalin that says they wouldn’t fight each other the Russians could have part of Poland

Question 19

What was the allied response to the Nazi soviet pact

Answer 19

Surprised allies because he hated communism but they didn’t do anything

Question 20

What did Hitler do September 1939

Answer 20

Invades Poland

Question 21

And what is the allied response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland

Answer 21

They declare war on Germany

Question 22

What is stage one of the blitzkrieg tactics

Answer 22

The attack begins with bomber aircraft blowing up communication and airfields

Question 23

What is stage two of blitzkrieg tactics

Answer 23

Parachutists I dropped ahead the main forces to catch a bridges and cut telephone lines lines

Question 24

What is stage three of blitzkrieg tactics

Answer 24

Thanks advance over borders with support from fighter planes use radio to coordinate attack

Question 25

What is stage four of blitzkrieg tactics

Answer 25

Infantry follow tanks and consolidate position secure territory until enemy is defeated

Question 26

What is evidence for Dunkirk being a disaster

Answer 26

I do a 30,000 British man captured or dead
Abandoned equipment
Abandoned only a line
Left military might
Seen as a retreat
We have lost Paris
Gave French resources to Germany
Wars are not one by evacuations said Churchill

Question 27

What is evidence for Dunkirk being a miracle

Answer 27

Soldiers wanted to go back to France a lot of German soldiers were killed as well a lot of troops are still alive didn’t cross the spirits smart tactics from British when they left the guns they damaged them so they were not able to use by the Jones over a third of 1 million men brought home
Allowed them to change tactics
Better equipped for D-Day

Question 28

Why was Hitler able to invade France

Answer 28

He got through the Ardennes forest poor planning from French when he did French soldiers deserted surrounding the soldiers causing them to surrender by blitzkrieg tactics the imaginot line only faced one way so when the Germans got round the back they made them surrender

Question 29

What are the reasons for the RAF victory in the battle of Britain

Answer 29

And the biggest one is a British fighter planes were faster and could move better than German planes
British hard radar this meant they knew where Germans were
The German planes could only fly for 30 minutes at a time
The German planes flew in groups which made them targets
And they had short periods of rest in between flights
Hitler’s bombing of factories didn’t work
Britain produce 563 new planes each month
The Germans lost 1652 planes the RAF only lost 1000 planes