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Hansen World War II
Bingo Review w/ answers
Name ___________
The first direct challenge to
the League of Nations
occurred when the Japanese
invaded __Manchuria___
What did Hitler consider his
biggest pre-WWII risk (in
respect to challenging the L
of N?) _Rhineland
invasion_
The Sudetenland was
primarily made up of people
who were ethnically
_Czech_____ or
____German___
Name the most important
Allied powers on September
1st, 1939 (the day WWII
officially started!)___
Britain and France______
Which country, besides
Japan, was radicalized by
anger over the Treaty of
Versailles? _Italy_______
The location of the official French
surrender in WWII was not unique.
It had appeared earlier in history
when ___the Germans
surrendered at the end of WWI _
True/False Pearl Harbor surprised
Hitler. _True____
The central Japanese
frustration with the
completed Treaty of
Versailles was _lack of a
racial equality clause___
What was the Anschluss and
why did Hitler use this word
for it? _ German invasion o
f Austria- make it look like
a non-violent/forced
action__
The surrender of the
Sudetenland to the Germans
was an especially big
mistake since it contained
_the Czech defensive Line
_
War was declared on
September 1st, 1939
immediately following this
event: _______German
invasion of Poland ____
Sitzkrieg is a silly pun that
refers to the delay that
occurred before the attack
from _Germany_______ (a
country) into
__France______ (another
country)
What was the difference between
Vichy and the rest of France after
Nazi victory? __rest- directly
controlled by Nazis---- Vichypuppet French Gov’t__________
___________________
The Japanese attacks on Pearl
Harbor failed to net the Japanese
one of their major prizes, the
American __aircraft carriers____
__________________
__________________
The Japanese claimed that
their invasions of the Asian
mainland were to help
fellow Asians, but the events
in the city of
__Nanking______
contradict this argument
What country proclaimed its
interwar isolationism with
the ‘Neutrality Act’?
_USA_____
German strategists argued
that the Maginot Line
defended them as much as
the French. Explain.
__French would never
advance from the Maginot
Line, so the Germans
could ignore defense on
their Western Front_____
Give a reason that the
Soviet-German NonAggression pact made sense
for the Soviets. __many
possible answers : _send
Hitler West, revenge for
the rejection of the Soviets
by the West, time to
rebuild Soviet officer corp
The primary goal of the dive
bombers that formed the
first wave of Blitzkrieg was
___to create confusion/ hit
communication and
transportation centers__
The lend-lease act was
__FDR’s___________ (an
individual)’s attempt to aid the
country of __Britain___
The northern-most German army
invading the USSR had, as its
ultimate goal, the city of
__Leningrad____________
Mr. Hansen is
___100,000___times
smarter than you and
___∞_____ times smarter
than Alex Nelson
The country that most
famously adopted
appeasement in the face of
Hitler’s aggression was
__Britain _
Chamberlain and Hitler’s
famous meeting took place
in the city of
___Munich___________
Give a reason that the
Soviet-German NonAggression pact made sense
for the Germans. __one
front war___
What was enigma and in
which of the battles in the
first two years of the war
was it the most decisive?
___British cracking of
German codes, Battle of
Britain____
After Britain held out against
German invasion plans, how did
Hitler try to still keep the pressure
Britain? ___Battle of the Atlantic/
Submarine seige of Britain____
Hitler was delayed five weeks in
launching Barbarossa mainly by
___the need to help Italy and
France and/or the need to put
down Yugolavian/Balkan
uprisings___
If the League of Nations had
really wanted to stop the
invasion of Ethiopia, a
simple step existed, namely:
____an embargo on
oil____
What was the central French
military strategy during the
interwar years? _Maginot
Line____
What (later) humiliating
quote was made by
Chamberlain upon his return
from the city in the question
above? ____I have
guaranteed Peace in Our
Time _
Hitler tried to justify his
invasion of Poland with
reference to the Polish
Corridor. What was his
point about it?______
___the people in it were
German, but were
controlled by the Polish
gov.- needed to be
liberated __
Churchill was most shocked
upon arriving in France
during the first weeks of the
German invasion to discover
that the French had no___no
strategic reserve of forces
to deal with the breach of
the Maginot Line___
Give a brief description of Hitler’s
specific plans to make Operation
Sea Lion a success. ______create a
line through the English channel
with subs and mines and defend
them from the air after having
beaten the RAF__
Name the two events that occurred
very close together in December
1941, that both had remarkable
importance to Hitler’s fate.
___Pearl Harbor _________
_______________________ and
___Germans stopped outside of
Moscow (and counterattacked) __
Explain the central reason
that Hitler’s popularity
surged in the early 1930s?
(before his election) _Great
Depression_
The Soviet Union faired so
poorly during the surprise
German attack, primarily
because __of Stalin’s
purges of skilled officers
__
What two things did
Churchill believe that
Chamberlain had earned the
British as a result of his deal
with Hitler? (think of the
quote we studied) _War
and dishonor______
_____________________
True/False Hitler expected,
and even hoped for, a
declaration of war by France
and Britain as a response to
his Polish invasion.
__False____
The central weakness of the
French defensive
fortifications was at __the
Ardennes Forest ___(a
location)
Explain three reasons (discussed in class)
that amphibious invasions are so hard.
Define Lebensraum and where
Hitler envisioned it ____living
space for the German/Aryan
Race---- the East- Russia/Poland,
Slavic lands___
_________________
_________________
•Rape of Nanking
•Anschluss
• Munich Conference
•Nazi-Soviet non-aggression
pact
•Battle of Britain,
Mussolini’s invasion of
Greece, Pearl Harbor,
The two sides which fought
each other in the Spanish
Civil War could broadly be
referred to as
Name the most important
Axis powers: ___Germany,
Japan, and Italy
_____________________
What was the Commissar
Order and which front did it
relate to? ___Order to
Germans to use no mercy
against Slavs on their
Eastern Front_____
Dunkirk became famous
because ___ ___that is
where the British army
was saved from the Nazis
by a motley fleet of British
vessels _
During the German attempt to break
the Royal Air Force, what decision
of Hitler caused Churchill ‘relief’.
The quotes are important here!
____the decision to bomb London
and ease off of the Air Force__
(battle of B to London Blitz)
__totalitarians/fascists___ and
_democratic/capitalists_
1. ___tides must be right__
2. __supply lines are hard_
3. __weather__
4. ____Enemy is dug in and can
guess the dates of your
advance___
5. __Moon must be right _
Why was Hitler so eager to get the
Caucasus __Oil________ and the
Ukraine ____Grain____