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| What did Churchill do once he realized the defeat of France was inevitable? | he stopped sending troops to France because he knew these troops would be needed when Hitler invaded Britain |
| Before Hitler invaded Great Britain, what did he suggest to them? | That they give up and leave Europe in Nazi hands |
| Why did Hitler decide to invade Great Britain when he did? | He needed to invade before winter and he had to conquer England before the Unites States entered the war |
| What name was given to the invasion of Great Britain by Germany? | Operation Sea Lion |
| How did the Americans react once they learned that the British had escaped from Dunkirk without most of their supplies? | They sent supplies to Britain and the first peacetime draft of servicemen in the history of the United States was being prepared |
| What were UXB squads? | Unexploded Bomb Squads |
| Why was the Battle of Britain a success for the British. | The Royal Air Force was able to take out a lot of the German Luftwaffe |
| What name was given to the invasion of London | The London of Blitz |
| When Hitler was going to invade Britain, where would he choose to invade? | He would cross the channel at the narrowest point |
| When Winston Churchill said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." what was he referring to? | That the large population of Great Britain owed a huge debt to the small fleet of the |
| What did Winston Churchill say was the only thing that frightened him during World War II? | the U-boat peril |
| German subs that traveled in groups of 8 to 20 were called _________. | woflpacks |
| What was the Lend-Lease program that was passed by the United States? | The U.S. had the power to lend or lease any war material to any government who defense the President deemed vital to the defense of the United States. |
| What new technology did the British use in order to detect German U-boats? | sonar |
| What is Pillenwerfer? | Germans used small gas bubbles which returned a ping and confused the sonar |
| What could radar pick up? | Radar could not detect a submerged sub, but it could find surfaced ones. Later it would allow Allied aircraft to surprise surfaced subs, sometimes while they were sunning themselves. |
| Which side did Hungary and Romania join? | The Axis |
| Why was Greece reluctant to ask for British troops? | They were afraid that if they asked for British assistance, Hitler would invade them. |
| Which country ended up invading Greece? | Italy |
| Why did Hitler intervene in Italy? | Greece was able to counterattack against Italy and drive the Italians out of Greece and pursued them into Albania. |
| When the Greeks surrendered, where did the British troops retreat to? | The island of Crete |
| Where was the first full-scale airborne assault of World War II? | Crete |
| What was Operation Punishment? | The merciless bombing of Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
| How did Hitler's invasion of Yugoslavia hurt his invasion of Russia? | Hitler had postponed his assault of Russia by four weeks in order to punish Yugoslavia. It was by less than that margin of time that the Wehrmacht, several months later, was kept from capturing Moscow by the onset of winter and if Moscow had been taken, Russia very probably would have been defreated. Hitler's revenge may well have cost him the war. |
