WWII Dates

Question 1

When was hitler born in Austria?

Answer 1

In 1889

Question 2

What was eugencies (limiting those that could reproduce) taught at universities?

Answer 2

In the 1880s

Question 3

When did hitler enlist in WWI?

Answer 3

1914

Question 4

When did WWI end?

Answer 4

1918

Question 5

When was the Treaty of Versailles signed? What did it mean for Germany, Japan and Italy?

Answer 5

June 28 1919. Germany was punished and Japan and Italy were offended. Japan was refused equality and Italy was not rewarded for their efforts enough

Question 6

When did Hitler join the german workers party?

Answer 6

1919

Question 7

When did hitler take over the German workers party and name it the Nazi party?

Answer 7

July 1921

Question 8

What did the Nazis attempt to do in 1923?

Answer 8

Nazi party attempts to take power in the Beer Hall Putsch but it fails and Hitler is put in jail for treason where he writes his book, Mein Kampf Which outlines his ideologies and views about antisemitism.

Question 9

When did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg?

Answer 9

January 1933

Question 10

What did Hitler do in 1933 as chancellor?

Answer 10

Within months (after becoming Chancellor) Hitler introduced laws about sterilising people with disabilities. Around 400000 people were sterilised and around 5000 people died from the procedure. Another 70000 died from his euthanasia program. Laws were also introduced stopping Jews from being german citizens, removing them from the government, legal professions and universities, banning them from schools and many public places and disallowing them to have businesses. Many people decided to leave Germany because of this.

Question 11

When did Hitler combine his role as chancellor with president and become leader of Germany?

Answer 11

1934

Question 12

When do Nazi troops enter Rhineland against the Treaty rules? What do Britain and France do?

Answer 12

1936. He is appeased.

Question 13

When does Kristallnacht take place?

Answer 13

November 9-10 1938

Question 14

When is Germany allowed Sudetenland?

Answer 14

1938 September

Question 15

When is Czechoslovakia invaded by nazis?

Answer 15

March 1939

Question 16

When does Germany sign a pact with Russia?

Answer 16

August 23 1939

Question 17

When was Poland invaded and how does Germany achieve this?

Answer 17

1 September 1939. Germany invades Poland using Blitzkrieg tactics

Question 18

When did Britain and France abandon appeasement and declare war on Germany?

Answer 18

3 September 1939.

Question 19

What were the nazis doing to minorities in 1939? Where was the largest ghetto?

Answer 19

Germany started setting up ghettos in invaded territories to isolate Jews. The largest one was in Warsaw Poland. Around 800000 Jews died in ghettos because of the conditions and shootings. Homosexuals and Gypsies were also targeted. Between 200000 and 500000 Gypsies died. This cruelty was called genocide.

Question 20

When did the phoney war take place? What was it? Why did it end?

Answer 20

October 1939 to April 1940. The Phoney War took place. In this time there were no major battles. Britain took the time to build up its forces to defend France. This period ended when Germany attacked Denmark and Norway.

Question 21

What does Germany then invade in May 1940? How? Why aren’t they stopped?

Answer 21

Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France using Blitzkrieg tactics, the Allies can’t hold them off.

Question 22

When is Dunkirk evacuated? What happens?

Answer 22

27 May to 4 June 1940. Allies evacuate 338000 British and French troops from Dunkirk.

Question 23

When does Italy enter the war? What do they plan? What side are they on?

Answer 23

June 1940. Italy enters the war on Germany’s side. It’s leader Benito Mussolini planned to take Egypt from the Italian territory of Libya.

Question 24

When does France surrender? What happens? Who are those that don’t stop fighting?

Answer 24

June 22 1940. France surrenders though some outside French troops continued fighting, becoming the Free French Forces.

Question 25

When did Germany try to take Britain by weakening it? What was this period called? When was it?

Answer 25

July 10 1940 to October 31 1940. Germany then planned on defeating Britain, first by destroying its airforce and then by invading with a land and sea attack. It then changed its tactics by bombing Britain’s industrial cities in a period called the Blitz.

Question 26

Who held of the Germans in the Blitz? When?

Answer 26

July 1940 to May 1941. The Royal Air Force that included around 100 Australians was successful in resisting the Germans in Britain. By then Germany was focused on the Russians and the threat in Britain had passed.

Question 27

When did Australians lead a counter attack on the Italians in Libya? What happened? What did Germany do?

Answer 27

1941. Australia led a British counterattack (against the Italians) into Libya and captured Bardia, Tobruk and Benghazi. Because of this Hitler sent General Rommel and experienced troops into Libya to support the Italians. He forced the British back to Egypt but the Australian and British troops held onto Tobruk and were referred to by the Germans as rats. The Australian Navy brought supplies and evacuated the injured.

Question 28

When did Hitler invade Russia? What was this called? Why?

Answer 28

June 1941. The Blitzkrieg invasion of the Soviet Union (USSR), code-named Operation Barbarossa began. It marked the peak of the Axis Power’s strength and is still the largest military operation- 3 million troops, 3600 tanks and 4300 tanks. This broke their pact. Hitler wanted Russia for the space, resources and because of communism found the inferior. Russia was unprepared.

Question 29

When were troops in Tobruk mostly replaced by Polish troops?

Answer 29

September 1941

Question 30

When did Nazis encounter problems in invading Russia? What happened?

Answer 30

November 1941. Germany had had much success in Russia and was within striking distance of Moscow but the troops were unprepared for the severity of the winter. When the winter ended Germany tried to take southern Russia and its oil fields but was stopped at Stalingrad.

Question 31

When did the Allies start attacking Germany back? What happened?

Answer 31

1942. The Allies started bombing German airfields and industrial areas but the plan failed in damaging Germany significantly.

Question 32

When did Rommel capture Tobruk?

Answer 32

June 1942

Question 33

When was the Battle of Stalingrad? What happened?

Answer 33

September 1942. The Battle of Stalingrad between the Soviets and the Nazis was one of the bloodiest battles in history.

Question 34

When did the Nazis surrender at Stalingrad? What did this cause?

Answer 34

February 1943. The Germans surrendered at Stalingrad. But the Nazis still had great control over the USSR and over much of Europe.

Question 35

How was the war going in 1943?

Answer 35

Germany’s Blitzkrieg tactics had lost their surprise and their success had peaked. Britain, British dominions, the USA, the Soviet Union and the French Free Forces had banned together in alliance to force the Nazis and its allies into an unconditional surrender. The Soviet Union had won many battles against Germany by this time.

Question 36

What was D-Day? What was it?

Answer 36

June 6 1944. 160 000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in northern France and sought to invade the country. This operation is referred to as D-Day.

Question 37

When was France liberated?

Answer 37

August 1944

Question 38

When did Allies start invading Germany from the west?

Answer 38

September 1944

Question 39

By 1945 where was Germany occupying and where were The Soviets occupying?

Answer 39

Germany had been forced out of most of Eastern Europe with Soviet troops occupying Russia, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and the Baltic States.

Question 40

When was Germany about to fall? What happened?

Answer 40

April 1945. The Soviets encircled Berlin and launched the final assault. Though Berlin was being defended by Hitler from his underground bunker and the population of the city was forced to fight, the city was seized after a week.

Question 41

When did Hitler commit suicide or disappear?

Answer 41

April 30 1945

Question 42

When did Germany officially surrender?

Answer 42

May 7 1945

Question 43

How many Jews died during the war?

Answer 43

6 million