Starter quiz
- When an area has been demilitarised, military forces there...
- have been reinforced.
- have been reduced.
- have been removed. ✓
- are mutinying.
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- Adolf Hitler believed in the concept of perpetual...
- 'struggle' ✓
- In which year did Hitler move German troops into the Rhineland?
- 1933
- 1936 ✓
- 1938
- 1939
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- Hitler and the Nazis aimed to built a '______-year Reich'.
- 'thousand' ✓
- The Conservative MP ______ argued for increased military spending and preparations for war in response to Hitler's actions in 1934.
- 'Winston Churchill' ✓
- Chamberlain’s policy of ______ was a policy of bending to some of Hitler’s demands in order to avoid a war.
- 'appeasement' ✓
Exit quiz
- Which of these were British responses to declaring war on Germany?
- The British Army was dispatched to France. ✓
- Preparations were made for German bombing raids. ✓
- The RAF began to bomb German cities.
- British troops crossed over from France into Germany.
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- Which event led to the resignation of Neville Chamberlain as prime minister?
- Germany's invasion of Poland
- the period known as 'the phoney war'
- the Nazi invasion of Norway ✓
- the Dunkirk evacuation
- the Battle of Britain
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- The German military achieved several victories deploying a tactic which became known as...
- 'Blitzkrieg' ✓
- Where did the majority of the British Expeditionary Force become trapped when Germany invaded France?
- the Ardennes Forest
- Dunkirk ✓
- the Maginot Line
- Paris
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- The recent invention of ______ helped the RAF to defeat the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain.
- 'radar' ✓
- After the failure to defeat the RAF, Hitler ordered a bombing campaign known as the...
- 'Blitz' ✓
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Key learning points
- Germany deployed a tactic known as Blitzkrieg to rapidly defeat and conquer other European nations.
- The Netherlands, Belgium, France and Luxembourg had all surrendered to the Nazis by 1940.
- In order to conquer Britain, Nazi Germany planned to defeat the RAF before a seaborne invasion.
- This led to the Battle of Britain in which the RAF repulsed the Luftwaffe, preventing invasion.
- Although Nazi Germany then carried out the Blitz, they gave up on their plans to invade Britain.
Common misconception
British troops began fighting against Nazi Germany immediately after war was declared.
For eight months, there was very limited British, French and German military land operation on the Western Front. This became known as the 'Phoney War'
Keywords
Blitzkrieg - or ‘lightning war’, was a new military tactic in which German planes, tanks, and foot soldiers united in a rapid assault to punch a hole through the enemy line
Luftwaffe - the German air force
Allied - the countries, including Britain and France, that fought against the Axis countries, Germany and Italy, in the Second World War
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