Download 6. WWII in Europe

Name: ____________________________
World War II in Europe
Use page 538 as map reference. Read pages 536-541 to answer the questions
Germany and Austria
Union with Austria
1. Why were German troops unopposed (people didn’t fight them) in Austria?
2. How did the rest of the world respond to Germany taking Austria?
Czechoslovakia
3. What did Hitler want Czechoslovakia?
4. Why did France & Great Britain (who promised to protect Czech),
let him take The Sudetenland?
Color: Germany and Austria
Label them: G & A
Germany & Czechoslovakia
5. Define Appeasement:
6. Who signed the Nonaggression pact with Hitler and what was the agreement?
Germany and Poland
Color: Germany and Czechoslovakia
Label them: G & CZ
Poland
7. What does Blitzkrieg mean and what advances in military technology did it
make use of?
8. What was France and Britain’s response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland?
9. Which country joined Germany in the attack and took eastern Poland?
10. How long did it take for Poland to “cease to exist”?
Germany, France
& Britain
Color: Germany and Poland. Labels: G & P
+ color all the other Axis controlled countries
in one color (no labels needed for all these)
11. What was the sitzkrieg and what did the newspapers call it?
France
11. Who joined Germany in attacking France?
12. Who set up a French exile gov’t and where was it based?
Battle of Britain
13. What were the names of the German and Britain air forces?
14. Britain had fewer plane, but they had what technological advancement?
Draw the Maginot line in red
Label them: G, FR, and GB
15. After six weeks of fighting, what did Hitler do?