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| Why did Germany invade Norway? | They needed bases and they wanted to beat Britain to it |
| What position had Norway taken on the war? | They were neutral |
| This was a German ship that the British said had British prisoners on it and they captured it in Norweigian waters. | Altmark |
| This was the ship that butted up against the Altmark which allowed the British to leap onto the deck of the Altmark. | Cossack |
| How did Hitler use the incident between the Altmark and the Cossack to invade Norway? | He said that since the British ship attacked the Altmark in Norweigian waters, it was a violation of Norways neutrality. |
| When Hitler invaded Norway, what other country did he invade and made it an innocent victim? | Denmark |
| Even though Germany was able to take over Norway, how did it hurt them later in the war? | Norway inflicted heavy damage on the German navy. While many of the larger ships could be repaired, the work would take months and for all practical purposes, the German navy ceased to be a factor for the invasion of Britain |
| When Norway fell, who proclaimed himself the Prime Minister of Norway? | Vidkun Quisling |
| What effect did Vidkun Quisling's proclaiming himself the leader of Norway have on him. | At first, it was ok with Germany because he was following Nazi ideals, but when he decided to go with his own agenda, he was considered a traitor and was tried for treason and killed after the war. |
| What countries were considered the Low Counties? | Belgium, Netherlands and Luxumberg |
| Why does Hitler invade the Low Countries? | He says he is protecting them from an invasion planned by Great Britain and France. |
| Who resigned as the Prime Minister of Great Britain? | Neville Chamberlain |
| Who becomes the new Prime Minister of Great Britain? | Winston Churchill |
| When Churchill was asked what his policy for the war was, what did he say? | "Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of terror, victory however long and hard the road may be, for without victory, there is no survival. |
| Which city in the Netherlands did the Germans continue to bomb, even though negotiations for surrender were under way? | Rotterdam |
| How was the assault on the Netherlands different from other German assaults? | The used parachute troops who were dropped in with machine guns, radios, and carried rubber boats for crossing the canal. |
| What was the Netherlands plan for preventing a German attack? | They would slow down the enemy until the French and British could help them and would open the dikes and let the sea flow in to engulf the invader. |
| Who was the Queen of the Netherlands who escaped to England and her government-in-exile remained during the war. | Queen Wilhelmina |
| At the same moment that Hitler attacked Holland, they also attacked what other country. | Belgium |
| Who was the King of Belgium? | King Leopold III |
| The Belgians did not place a lot of troops on their border where this forest was because they thought the forest was impassable. | Ardennes Forest |
| British and French troops come to Belgium's aide when they are attacked by the Nazi's. After the Germans invade through the Ardennes Forest, what does King Leopold do? | He surrenders (without talking to the Allies first) and leaves their flank almost fatally exposed. |
| What do the Allied troops do once Belgium has surrendered and they realize their flank is exposed? | They retreat to the one remaining port at Dunkirk. |
| What was the name of the rescue of the Allied troops from Dunkirk? | Operation Dynamo |
| What made the evacuation from Dunkirk successful? | German bombings of the mass troops did little harm since the bombs plunged into the soft sand and their explosions were muffled, there was a supreme effort of the Royal Air Force to win superiority in the sky over the evacuation area and prevent it from becoming a turkey shoot, Bad weather grounded the Luftwaffe, and the most decisive factor was that Hitler gives the order to halt his panzers short of Dunkirk. |
| Who commanded the German army that was attacking Dunkirk? | General von Rundstedt |
| What theories are there as to why Hitler stopped his panzer unit short of Dunkirk? | General von Rundstedt blamed Hitler's ignorance of the situation however, there are some who claim that Rundstedt ordered the halt. Another reason cited by historians was that Hitler halted his troops until he decided if he should continue to Dunkirk or turn south and capture an unprotected Paris. |
| Once President Roosevelt heard that Britain and France had escaped Hitler at Dunkirk, but had lost a lot of equipment, what did he do? | He sent orders to the war and navy departments to report what weapons they could spare for Britain and France. |
| Why is the U.S. loaning of equipment to Britain and France after Dunkirk considered a supreme act of faith. | The U.S. left themselves with the equipment for only 1,800,000 men and the rest was sent to Britain and France. It was a supreme act of faith to deprive themselves of this considerable mass of arms fora the sake fo a country which many deemed already beaten. Once Hitler conquered Europe, would he invade the U.S. and if he did, would they have the supplies and weapons they needed to defend themselves from such an attack. |
| What was the French plan for defending themselves from the Germans? | They built up a Maginot Line in the east. Then the French Generals would fight their enemy with one part of their troops and keep another part in reserve. The reserve troops would be rushed from place to place, wherever the danger was the greatest. The French relied too heavily on thinking their Maginot Line would defend France. The Germans invaded north of the Maginot Line so it did them no good. Also, when the German army came smashing through, the French had no reserve troops, they did not make good use of their tanks and they scattered their armored divisions instead of massing them to meet the German assault. |
| What was the biggest factor in causing the defeat of France? | The French lost the power to resist. The great French nation seemed to go flabbly with fear. |
| When France is almost defeated, what country enters the war? | Italy |
| Who is the leader of Italy? | Benito Mussolini |
| Who was the only French colonel who did not have the spirit of defeat and in fact, tries to preserve French honor by escaping to England to rally the Free French from there. | Charles de Gualle |
| Where did the French government retreat to? | Tours, France |
| After the French government flees, Winston Churchill goes to Tours and what does he offer the French. | He proposes a union of France and England as a single country, but the offer was refused. |
| Who was the Frechman who surrendered for France? | Marshal Petain |
| Where did the French surrender take place? | In Compiegne, which was the very place where Kaiser Wilhelm surrendered during World War I. Hitler intended to avenge this humiliation by making the French surrender at the same place and inside the same railway car where French Marshall Foch had dictated the Armistice for World War I. |
| What were the terms of the French surrender? | France would be cut into two with a Nazi occupied North and with a Pro-Nazi government run by Marshall Petain in the South with a capital at Vichy. |
| What was the name of the pro-Nazi French government that was established in Southern France after the French surrender to Germany? | the Vichy government |
| What was Mussolini allowed to control in France? | Since Italy entered the war in France late, Hitler allowed Mussolini to only control the few hundred yards in France that they had actually overtaken. |
