Causes
What major event contributed to the theory of Strategic Bombing
WW1
What is the term for no specific target often considered terror bombing?
Area bombing
What year did the Blitz happen?
1940
What was Bomber Harris nickname
The Butcher
How many civilians were killed in the Hamburg raid
45,000
What smaller event which was unintended caused triggered the deliberate bombing of civilians
Luftwaffe pilot bombing East London by mistake
What was the radar jamming tactic of spreading thin strips of aluminum called?
Window
What major bombing raid happened on in July 1943?
Attack on Hamburg
Who was Commander-in-Chief of the RAF
Charles Portal
What Geneva Convention Protocol has the US still not signed (Year)
1977
What raid was the radar jamming technique window used for the first time?
Hamburg Raid July1943
The Military name for the systematic destruction of German cities during 1944/45
Operation Thunderclap
13th February 1945
Who became President after Roosevelts death
Harry Truman
Who said this “war coarsens morale fibre and blunts judgement on the right way to act”
Anthony Grayling
The name of the meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill where Stalin asked for more of a commitment in the Eastern Front
The Yalta Conference Jan 1945
In early 1944 the USAAF had a period of very successful systematic attacks on the Luftwaffe and oil depots, transport hubs, what operation name for this campaign
Argument
What year did the P-51 Mustang enter operations?
Beginning of 1944
What was Albert Speers ministerial position (job title)
Who said this...'time of the bombing of German cities to inflict terror has come to an end or the Allies will come into control of an utterly ruined land,
Winston Churchill
Which WW1 veteran and major theorist of strategic bombing advocated the deliberate bombing of civilians to destroy their morale?
Guilio Douhet
What was the military operation which we now call the D-Day landings?
Operation Overlord
When where the D-Day landings (Month Year)
June 1944
Which historian corroborated with Frederick Taylor's perspective on Dresden?
Antony Beevor
How many RAF bomber command crewman were killed wounded or taken prisoner during the bombing campaign (within 5000)
75,446
57,205 Killed
8,403 Wounded
9,838 became prisoners of war