Battle of Britain
1940
1941: An Important Year
The Pacific
Potpourri
200

The battle involved the British (RAF) against the German

What is the Luftwaffe?

200

1940 saw France, Holland and Belgium become overwhelmed by German___________

What is blitzkrieg?

200

 German forces invaded the __________________ on June 22, 1941, fewer than two years after the German-Soviet Pact.

What is the Soviet Union?

200

On December 8th, President _____________ delivered his famous “infamy” speech before the Congress

Who is Roosevelt?

200

The RAF stands for

What is The Royal Airforce?

400

The head of the Luftwaffe

Who is Goring?

400

Following Neville Chamberlain’s resignation on 10th May 1940, __________ became Prime Minister.

Who is Churchill?

400

After the Nazis made huge gains in the Soviet Union, the notorious Russian winter (nicknamed "______________") set in, German advances came to a halt.

What is General Winter?

400

The Japanese failed to destroy the U.S __________________________ during the attack on Pearl Harbor

What are aircraft carriers?

400

Japanese Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II

Who is Yamamoto?

600

In August 1940, the Germans bombed British shipyards, industries, and cities, destroying entire neighbourhoods of this city

What is London?

600

British, French and Belgian troops found themselves trapped, surrounded and cut off by the Germans at this French port

What is Dunkirk?

600

Traditionally, Japan relied on industrial and natural resources from __________.

What is the U.S?

600

Japan had a long-standing plan to expand their empire in the Pacific, the US economic __________ was just a pretext for war rather than a trigger

What is embargo? Or What are sanctions?

600

Japanese politician and general of the Imperial Japanese Army who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association for most of World War II.

Who is Tojo?

800

The Luftwaffe bombed British ports and cities with the intent to weaken British will to fight. This bombing campaign was nicknamed this

What is the Blitz?

800

Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. The war in the west starts and the so called ________ War ends.

What is Phoney?

800

In the 1930s, Japan invaded resource-rich __________ and had further plans to create an empire in the Pacific

What is Manchuria?

800

Japan sought to develop ideology based on Pan-Asianism, ‘Asia for the Asians’ through this

What is the the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity?

800

Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor--December 7, 1941-- he was selected by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be the commander-in-chief of the United States Pacific Fleet

Who is Nimitz?

1000

This gave the RAF (Royal Airforce) a strategic advantage over the Luftwaffe

What is RADAR?

1000

British and French troops trapped at Dunkirk, a full-scale evacuation begins known as Operation_________.

What is Dynamo?

1000

On the morning of _____________ Japan attacked the US fleet at Pearl Harbor

What is December 7th?

1000

Because Japan could not be pursued to give up its ambitions, _______ became inevitable and just a matter of timing

What is war?

1000

Code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union

What is Operation Barbarossa? 

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