1. Ch29-Jeopardy World War II and the Marshall Plan

2. World War II and the Marshall Plan
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France
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3. What was the Blitzkrieg?
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This was the term given to the German tactic of using overwhelming armored force moving at high speeds supported by airpower.
SUBJECT: World War II
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4. What was Operation Barbarossa?
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This is was the Code name given to Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union.
SUBJECT: World War II
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5. Who were Dwight D. Eisenhower moving from west to the east, and Bernard Montgomery moving west from Egypt?
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These were the two Allied Generals who led a pincer movement in North Africa against the Germans.
SUBJECT: World War II
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6. What was the Battle of the Bulge?
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This was the last gasp effort of the Germans in December of 1944 that caught the Allied forces by surprise.
SUBJECT: World War II
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7. What was the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact?
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This was the agreement that was signed by Stalin and Hitler in 1939 which divided Poland between the two and gave Stalin, Romanian, Bessarabia.
SUBJECT: World War II
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8. Who was Neville Chamberlain?
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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.
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.
SUBJECT: Great Britain
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10. What was Operation Sealion?
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This was the Code name given by Hitler to the invasion of Great Britain by Germany.
SUBJECT: Great Britain
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11. 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.
SUBJECT: Great Britain
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12. What was the Fighter ( Spitfire) an fighter-bomber (Hurricane)?
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These were the two British lanes that defeated the German Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain or the Blitz as the British called it.
SUBJECT: Great Britain
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13. What was the Maginot Line ?
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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!!! ).
SUBJECT: France
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14. Who was General Henri Petain?
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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)
SUBJECT: France
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15. What was Dunkirk?
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This was the beach in northern France where over 330,000 British and French troops were evacuated while under attack from the German blitzkrieg.
SUBJECT: France
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16. What was Vichy, which became the name for the government
What was Vichy, which became the name for the government. ( once the home of the famous, healing,Roman baths)?
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This was the town in France that became the center of the pro-German government following Hitler’s two month overwhelming victory over France in 1940.
SUBJECT: France
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17. Who was Edouard Daladier?
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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.
SUBJECT: France
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18. What was the Third Reich?
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This was the name given to Hitler’s new Empire which threatened all of Europe.
SUBJECT: Germany
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19. What was Anschluss?
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This was the name given to the union of Austria and Germany which was inevitable according to Hitler.
SUBJECT: Germany
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20. What was the Spanish Civil War ( Spain)?
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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.
SUBJECT: Germany
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21. What was the German Rhineland?
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This was the area of Germany that Hitler reoccupied in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Agreements of 1925.
SUBJECT: Germany
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22. What was the Sudetenland?
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This was the area of Czechoslovakia that was annexed by Hitler in 1939 after rioting broke out instigated by the Nazis.
SUBJECT: Germany
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23. What were Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland?
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These were the Baltic countries that were occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940 and the one country that resisted and remained independent.
SUBJECT: Soviet Union
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24. What was Operation Barbarossa?
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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.
SUBJECT: Soviet Union
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25. What were Moscow, Stalingrad, and Leningrad?
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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.
SUBJECT: Soviet Union
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26. What was Manchuria?
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This was the area that was invaded by the Soviet Union two days after the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima.
SUBJECT: Soviet Union
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27. What was Warsaw ( still a symbol of Jewish resistance to the Nazi war machine ) ?
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This was the city that resisted the Nazis, while the Soviet Army waited outside the city, until the Jewish guerillas had been annihilated.
SUBJECT: Soviet Union
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