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1
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What triggers WW2

A

Germany attacks poland in sept 1939

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2
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How was Germany deterred from taking poland

A

Brits and French made a treaty with poland

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3
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What becomes the first Jewish Ghetto

A

Warsaw poland

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4
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Why does soivets go on the offensive in early 1940

A

brits and france were too focused on Germany

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5
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result of Soviets attacking finland in 1939

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Finns fight back and against them because stalin already killed everyone

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6
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why didnt French attack germany when germany when germany was attacking Poland

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They set up major defensive walls in the Maginot Line

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7
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How did Germans intially trick the Brits and french

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they swung under the schlieggen plan and attack them from underneath

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8
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where did he main attack from the germans on allies come from

A

the aragon forrest and go underneath them

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9
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What happens at Dunkirk

A

got 338k allied troop were evacuated off the beach

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10
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French response post Dunkirk

A

French govt declared Paris an open city and fled

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11
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Who is Prime minsister post French surrender in Paris

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Marshal Henri Petain who was a verdun guy

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12
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When did French surrender

A

June 1940 in a railcar

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13
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what happens to southern france post french surrendering

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Petain runs south france under his rule, vichi was the ruling city

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14
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Who was the opposing force of Petain

A

Charles Degaulle and his Free French government

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15
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name of german airforce

A

Luftwaffe

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16
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Battle of Britian was what

A

an airbattle between RAF and Luftwaffe

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17
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British big airforce advantage

A

Radar

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18
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Who was the head of the German army in Egypt

A

Rommel named the Desert Fox

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19
Q

What was Operation Barbarossa

A

Hitlers plan to overtake Moscow

20
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When did Operation Barbarossa start

A

June 22 1941, very late

21
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When was the turning point of WWII

A

1942

22
Q

What was the turning point in N africa

A

el Alamaiin

23
Q

Turning point in Europe in WWII

A

StalingradW

24
Q

Who led the stalin army in stalingrad

A

Zhukov and Chuikov

25
Q

who was the germany stalingrad general

A

von paulus

26
Q

How did usa get involved with germany war

A

After Pearl harbour, we decl war on Japan and Germany declared war on us.

27
Q

When do the allies take The Sicily

A

July 1943

28
Q

What happens to Mussolini when Allies take Sicily

A

Mussolini is forced out of power and into a prison

29
Q

Battle of Kursk

A

Largest Tank Battle ever

30
Q

What was the last german attack on the eastern front

A

Kursk

31
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Normandy invasion was when

A

June 6 1944

32
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What is SHAEF

A

Esienhower acting as leader of the allies

33
Q

What were the casualities of Normandy

A

11,000

34
Q

who tried to assassinated Hitler

A

Claus Von Satauffenberg

35
Q

who was sasauffenberg

A

he was a war verteran and tried to kill hitler

36
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Hitlers Reaction to assassination attempt

A

He established the Gestapo secret police and killed 1000 suspects

37
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Final battle of WWII

A

battle of Berlin in 1945

38
Q

how many people died in the war

A

80 mil

39
Q

what division was french nazi

A

Charlamean

40
Q

who lost highest percentage of people

A

poland

41
Q

Russians view of Jewish

A

They saw them as foreign and not real citizens

42
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What is yiddish

A

mix of german and hebrew language

43
Q

What is a Einsatzgruppen

A

Mobile killing units of germany to kill jews

44
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Who did the Einsatzgruppen round up

A

Intellectuals teachers preist jews and political figures

45
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What did germans use to kill jews in showers

A

Zyklon B

46
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Main death camps

A

Aushwitz, Dachau, Bergen Belsen, Treblinka, Mauthausen, Sobibor, Buchenwald

47
Q

who comes with the final solution

A

Heydrich