ww2

Question 1

Hitler on invading britain

Answer 1

Alan Bullock - thinks Hitler never intended to invade Britain but to persuade Churchill into peace deals.

Question 2

German vulnerability

Answer 2

William R Keylor
“The potential vulnerability of Germany in a conflict of long duration became evident during the six month…war against two powers”

Question 3

Most important factor about USSR

Answer 3

Paul Kennedy: “The sheer geographical extent and logistical demand of campainging hundreds of miles deep in Russia undermined the Wehrmacht’s greatest advantage” - fast attacks

Question 4

Moral

Answer 4

“wars are won in the minds of men, and in the minds they must be fought”

Question 5

Germany military strategy - Blitzkreig

Answer 5

Richard Holme - Blitzkreig “aimed at the rapid penetration of the enemy’s front by a densley concentrated mass of tanks, closely supported by aircrafts”

• Germany devised “their own revolutionary philosophy of armoured warfare”,

Question 6

Grand al;iance superiority

Answer 6

Paul Kennedy - “The grand alliance…was so superior in material… which none of the earlier opponents of fascist aggression could have hoped to possess”

Question 7

German airforce cascade affect.

Answer 7

“The real cause of the military defeat was the failure of the German Airforce” - Hitler