WWI
49) What was the name of fights between planes?
Dogfights
51) When was the armistice signed (date and time)?
November 11, 1918, at 11:00 AM
58) How did Hitler violate the Treaty of Versailles?
Reintroduced a military draft, fortified the Rhineland/marched troops into the Rhineland
61) Who was Neville Chamberlain?
Prime minster of Great Britain who appeased Hitler and came before Churchill
64) What does panzer mean?
German armored divisions
47) What was the spark that started WWI?
The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
55) What was the most important treaty at the end of WWI?
The Treaty of Versailles
57) How did Italy defy the League of Nations before the start of World War II?
By invading Ethiopia
62) What is appeasement?
Buying off an aggressor by making concessions
65) What does Luftwaffe mean?
German superior air force
50) Who was the most successful ace AND which country did he fly for?
The Red Baron, German
54) What did the Germans assume about the peace treaty to end World War I?
That it would be based on Wilson’s peace program
60) Which countries made up the Axis powers in World War 2?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
63) What happened at the Munich Conference? AND who was notably not at the conference?
England and France gave Hitler some of Czechoslovakia; Czechoslovakia was not there
66) What does blitzkrieg mean?
Lightning War
52) Who were the dominant leaders at the Paris Peace Conference (and what countries did each represent)?
-U.S. president Woodrow Wilson
-French premier Georges Clemenceau
-British prime minister David Lloyd George
-Italian prime minister Vittorio Orlando
56) What were the 4 provisions of the Treaty of Versailles?
Territorial Provisions
Economic Provisions
Military Provisions
The “War Guilt” Clause
68) What happened at Dunkirk?
British citizens rescued allied troops by ferrying them across the English channel, it was a giant rescue mission
69) Who was the German commander known as the Desert Fox?
Erwin Rommel
67) What does sitzkrieg mean?
Sitting war or phony war
48) How did Belgium get the British to join the war?
-Germany demanded that neutral Belgian should let the Germans pass through on their way to France
-Belgium refused
-Germany crossed into Belgium anyway, breaking a 75 year old treaty
-This upset the British who joined the Allies
53) What was the revenge continuum at the conference?
US opposed to revenge, France wanted lots of revenge, and England wanted some revenge
59) What was the Anti-Comintern Pact?
An agreement between Germany and Japan—seemed to be against Communism but was specifically about Russia
70) What helped the outnumbered British Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain?
Better planes and newly invented radar
71) What happened at the Battle of Normandy?
The Allies invaded the coast of France in an amphibious assault.