Transcript WWII Jeopardy

WORTH:
World War II and the Marshall Plan
World War II
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Great Britain
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France
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Germany
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The Soviet
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What was the Blitzkrieg?
MAIN
This was the term given to the
German tactic of using
overwhelming armored force
moving at high speeds
supported by airpower.
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SUBJECT: World War II
What was Operation Barbarossa?
MAIN
This is was the Code name
given to Hitler’s invasion of
the Soviet Union.
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SUBJECT: World War II
Who were Dwight D. Eisenhower
moving from west to the east, and
Bernard Montgomery moving west
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from Egypt?
These were the two Allied Generals
who led a pincer movement in
North Africa against the Germans.
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SUBJECT: World War II
What was the Battle of the Bulge?
MAIN
This was the last gasp effort of
the Germans in December of
1944 that caught the Allied
forces by surprise.
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SUBJECT: World War II
What was the Nazi-Soviet NonMAIN
aggression Pact?
This was the agreement that
was signed by Stalin and
Hitler in 1939 which divided
Poland between the two and
gave Stalin, Romanian,
Bessarabia.
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SUBJECT: World War II
Who was Neville Chamberlain?
MAIN
He was the British Prime Minister
who went to Munich and
returned stating that Hitler
would have no more territorial
demands on Europe and there
would be peace with honor.
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SUBJECT: Great Britain
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Who was Winston Churchill ( He was the
British War Commander and before the war
supported the development of radar) ?
He was the British Prime Minister
who rallied the British people by
giving rousing speeches and
ruling with an iron first.
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SUBJECT: Great Britain
What was Operation Sealion?
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This was the Code name given
by Hitler to the invasion of
Great Britain by Germany.
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SUBJECT: Great Britain
What was the Lend – Lease Act
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This was the name given to the
agreement between Churchill and
Roosevelt to supply the British
with weapons and supplies in
return for the use of British Naval
Bases.
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SUBJECT: Great Britain
What was the Fighter ( Spitfire)
an
fighter-bomber
(Hurricane)?
MAIN
These were the two British lanes
that defeated the German
Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
or the Blitz as the British called
it.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Great Britain
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What was the Maginot Line ?
This was the series of forts that
were built to protect the German
– French border after World War
I. ( They didn’t work, The
Germans went through Belgium
again doh!!! ).
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SUBJECT: France
Who was General Henri Petain?
MAIN
At the age of 84 he became the
head of the new French
government that cooperated with
the Nazis in France. ( He was
condemned, but lived his life out
in exile off the coast of Brittany)
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SUBJECT: France
MAIN
What was Dunkirk?
This was the beach in northern
France where over 330,000
British and French troops
were evacuated while under
attack from the German
blitzkrieg.
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SUBJECT: France
What was Vichy, which became the
name for the government. ( once
the home of the famous,
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healing,Roman baths)?
This was the town in France that
became the center of the proGerman government following
Hitler’s two month overwhelming
victory over France in 1940.
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SUBJECT: France
MAIN
Who was Edouard Daladier?
He was the French Premier who
approved the Munich pact and
the appeasement of Hitler’s false
promises for no more European
expansion, he also approved
France’s war declaration in 1939.
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SUBJECT: France
MAIN
What was the Third Reich?
This was the name given to
Hitler’s new Empire which
threatened all of Europe.
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SUBJECT: Germany
What was Anschluss?
MAIN
This was the name given to the
union of Austria and Germany
which was inevitable
according to Hitler.
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SUBJECT: Germany
What was the Spanish Civil War
(
Spain)?
MAIN
This was where Hitler tested his
military blitzkrieg and
thousands of civilians were
killed as the opposing sides in
the upcoming struggle tested
their weapons and ideology in
1936.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Germany
What was the German Rhineland?
MAIN
This was the area of Germany
that Hitler reoccupied in
violation of the Treaty of
Versailles and the Locarno
Agreements of 1925.
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SUBJECT: Germany
MAIN
What was the Sudetenland?
This was the area of
Czechoslovakia that was
annexed by Hitler in 1939
after rioting broke out
instigated by the Nazis.
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SUBJECT: Germany
What were Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, and Finland?
MAIN
These were the Baltic
countries that were
occupied by the Soviet Union
in 1940 and the one country
that resisted and remained
independent.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Soviet Union
What was Operation Barbarossa?
MAIN
This was the code name given
to Hitler’s invasion of the
Soviet Union in 1941 which
turned out to be disastrous
for the German army.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Soviet Union
MAIN
What were Moscow,
Stalingrad, and Leningrad?
These were the three Soviet
cities that Hitler could not and
would not take, and signaled
the beginning of the end for
the Third Reich.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Soviet Union
MAIN
What was Manchuria?
This was the area that was
invaded by the Soviet Union
two days after the dropping
of the Atomic Bomb on
Hiroshima.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Soviet Union
What was Warsaw ( still a symbol of
Jewish resistance to the Nazi war
machine
)
?
MAIN
This was the city that resisted
the Nazis, while the Soviet
Army waited outside the city,
until the Jewish guerillas had
been annihilated.
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200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Soviet Union