WWII key Words

Question 1

Allies

Answer 1

The country’s fighting with Britain in the wars

Question 2

Amphibious landing craft

Answer 2

A boat which takes troops all the way to the shore

Question 3

Armistice

Answer 3

A truce during the wsr

Question 4

The battle of Atlantic

Answer 4

Battle of the North Atlantic sea

Question 5

BEF

Answer 5

When Britain sent troops to France after they started war with germany

Question 6

Beveridge report

Answer 6

Where Britain got recommended a welfare state

Question 7

The bombe

Answer 7

A code breaking machine

Question 8

Historical enquiry

Answer 8

The process of asking and investigating historical questions, centred around concepts such as
change, continuity, causation, consequence, significance and diversity.

Question 9

lebensraum

Answer 9

Living space for the germans

Question 10

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 10

Attack launched on the ussr by germany

Question 11

Operation blue

Answer 11

The code name for the German offensive in southern Russia after the failure of Barbarossa.

Question 12

Operation dynamo

Answer 12

The code name for the British plan to evacuate Allied soldiers from Dunkirk in May–June 1940.

Question 13

Operation overload

Answer 13

The code name for the planned invasion of Nazi-occupied France by Allied forces

Question 14

Oporation sea lion

Answer 14

The code name for the Nazi plan to invade Britain during the Battle of Britain.

Question 15

Revisionist interpretation

Answer 15

A challenge (disagreement with) the dominant/ traditional view of the time.