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WWII begins
Question | Answer |
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When did ww2 begin | September 1st 1939 |
Blitzkrieg in Poland (1939) | 1) Lighting warfare, surprise attacks 2) Germany wins, gets ⅔ of Poland 3) Russia also invades, gets ⅓ of Poland |
How long did it take Poland to fall? | 3 weeks |
How did Germany invade Poland? | 1) drop paratroopers 2) cuts P's power/phones 3) law down fog on borders 4) tanks come in over trenches 5) tanks split into 3 to encircle trench 6) drop bombs on P |
Why did Poland fall in 3 weeks? | didn't have tanks or airplanes |
When was the Phony War? | October 1939- April 1940 |
Phony war (1939 ) | 1) Period of no fighting 2) G had just invaded P, so preparing to send troops back to F + it's winter 3) GB & F sat in trenches preparing for war |
What happened after the Phony War? | Baltic States and Finland invaded by Russia (1939) |
Baltic States & Finland invaded by Russia (1939) | 1) R invades Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 2) R invades Finland, Finnish aren’t protecting border & don’t fight back at first 3) R keep going into F w tanks but its winter 4) R not prepared, tanks freeze on frozen lakes |
Outcome of Finland invasion by Russia | 1) Finnish finally attack & force Russians back 2) More R soldiers sent, F loses |
How did the Phony War end? | hitler invades Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg (1940) |
What happened to France 1940 | 1) Ppl expect G to attack through Belgium 2) G attack through Ardennes Forest w tanks 3) Tanks split into 3, encircle trenches 4) GB trapped in Dunkirk 5) F surrenders |
What happened to Southern France | 1) Southern France promises to be loyal to G if they don't add troops, 3) create country called Vichy which controls Morocco |
The British Escape (1940) | 1) British soldiers trapped against sea in Dunkirk 2) Hitler halts attack on Dunkirk 3) British soldiers evacuated across sea by an British person w a boat |
How did Hitler respond to British escaping from Dunkirk? | 1) Hitler realizes he made a mistake at Dunkirk 2) Hitler bombs GB day & night 3) British ppl unite by continuing daily lives, Hitler wont break their spirit |
What happened to the Soviet Union in 1941? | 1) Operation Barbarossa 2) Germany invades Russia & is doing well 3) massive fighting |
What happened w the US in 1941? | 1) US merchant ships helping allies 2) G sinks US ships 3) US occupies Greenland bc Denmark owns it & is controlled by Nazis |
What happened to French Indochina 1941 | 1) J invades French Indochina - Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia 2) J threatening Philippines & Australia 3) US issues embargo against J 4) J plans secret attack on Pearl Harbor, pretends to go to Philippines, but actually going to Hawaii |