Name _____________________________________ Date ______________________________________ Class _____________________________________ Blitzkrieg to the Bomb Video Questions Terms to know: RAF Royal

al Air Force (of England) Luftwaffe German Air Force SS schutzstuffel literally means protection squad 1. Throughout the video, the narrator (Martin Sheen) will mention 3 military miscalculations that Hitler makes. List them here. a.

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2. Benito Mussolini is the dictator of what country? 3. Who is der Fuhrer of Germany? 4. What countries (3) form the Axis powers? 5. Japan invades Manchuria and then _________________________ 6 years later. 6. Who invades the Rhineland? 7. Neville Chamberlain is the leader of what country? 8. Who is the leader of the Soviet Union? 9. What agreement is reached in the non-aggression pact that Hitler signs?

10. September 1, 1939 What country does Hitler invade, starting World War II? 11. Hinrich Himler is the leader of the ____________ (2 letters). 12. What is the Maginot line?

13. Who takes over as Prime Minister of England after Chamberlain? 14. The Germans take over Holland in _______ days.

15. Belgium surrenders to the Nazis after _________ weeks. 16. The Northern Allied Army retreats to the French town of ____________________. 17. How does the Allied Army trapped there escape to England?

18. Where is the surrender of France signed?

19. Why do the British attack the French navy?

20. What types of weapons are used to fight the Battle of Britain? 21. 1940 Italy invades _______________________ 22. Who is one of Germanys greatest commanders also known as the Desert Fox? 23. Why are inexperienced officers commanding Russian troops?

24. Who had invaded Russia 100 years before? 25. What stops the Germans when Russian troops cant? 26. What does the Lend-Lease Act allow President Roosevelt to do?

27. Where did the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941? 28. When does the US declare war on Japan? 29. What is new about the battle of Coral Sea?

30. Why does the US know when and where the Japanese are going to attack?

31. What is a U-boat? 32. What general takes on the British 8th army?

33. Who leads the American 7th army in Sicily? 34. What happens to Mussolini after the fall of Sicily?

35. What do the Italians do after the allied troops land?

36. Who is charged with defending the French Coast for the Germans? 37. Who is in charge of the allied invasion force? 38. June 6, 1944What happens?

39. What are 2 secret weapons that Hitler uses against England?

40. How does the commander of the US 101st Airborne reply when asked to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge? 41. What general commands the 3rd army that comes to the 101st airbornes rescue? 42. Kamikaze means ______________. 43. How do kamikaze pilots attack?

44. Where do Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin (the Big 3) meet in February 1945? 45. How many people died in concentration camps? 46. How does Hitler die? 47. What does the Enola Gay do to Hiroshima?

48. What general accepts the surrender of the Japanese?