Vocabulary
Name for roads, rail lines, airstrips, tunnels and canals
What is infrastructure?
This was the name given to the naval conflict between the Allied convoys and German U-Boats from 1941 to 1944.
What was the Battle of the Atlantic?
This was the British scientist who helped build the machine to break the German Enigma code device.
Who was Alan Turing?
This was the location of the major Death Camp in Poland.
What was Auschwitz?
This was the British battlecruiser sunk by the Bismarck.
What was the Hood?
Term which describes deciphering enemy codes.
What is codebreaking?
This battle was for a Soviet city on the Volga river in late 1942.
What was the Battle of Stalingrad?
This was the man behind the Wannsee Conference in January 1942.
Who was Reinhard Heydrich?
This was the location of the British codebreaking machine built by Alan Turing.
What was Bletchley Park?
This tank was a Soviet design and had over 80,000 built during the War.
What was the T-34?
Type of self-propelled bomb used by a submarine.
What is a torpedo?
This was the country Hitler invaded in June 1941.
What was the Soviet Union?
This was the Soviet general who was responsible for victories at Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk.
Who was Marshall Zhukov?
This is where Patton is buried.
What is Hamm, Belgium?
This German tank was feared by the Allies and Soviets for its thick armor and 88mm canon.
What was the Tiger I?
This was the name given to the mass-produced American Tank.
What was the Sherman?
This was the desert battle that the British stopped Rommel in the summer of 1942.
What was the Battle of El Alamein?
This German admiral was in charge of the U-Boats during WW2.
Who was Admiral Donitz?
This was the Czech town that was totally destroyed by the Nazis in reprisal for the assassination of Heydrich.
What was Lidice?
The fall of this country allowed Germany to build sub bunkers along its Atlantic coastline.
What was France?
This was another name for the bulge in the German lines that ended with the Battle of Kursk.
What is a salient?
This was the German battleship hunted by the Royal Navy in May 1941
What was the Bismarck?
This Soviet flyer was responsible for forming the Night Witches.
Who was Marina Raskova?
This major Soviet city was encircled and kept under siege for almost 900 days.
What was Leningrad?
This American-built fighter aircraft was originally built for the British airforce.
What was the Mustang?
The frame of the Russian PO2 aircraft flown by Soviet women pilots was constructed of this material.
What is wood?