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FlashCards por Izzy Noone, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Izzy Noone
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| Questão | Responda |
| How were tanks effectively used by 1918? | As a battering ram |
| What did Blitzkrieg mean? | "Lightning war" |
| What did Blitzkrieg aim to do to the enemy? | Use shock tactics to paralyze the enemy |
| a) Name two events when Blitzkrieg was used successfully (include dates) b) Where & when was Blitzkrieg unsuccessful? | a) Poland 1939, Low countries and France 1940, Dunkirk 1940 b) Soviet Union 1941-42 |
| a) When did D-Day take place? b) Give one reason for why D-Day was so important | a) 1944 b) Rapid advances through Northern France/ 156,000 troops landed using mechanised vehicles/ German losses high/ coordinated effort of 3 armed forces; air, sea and land |
| a) What was the Arnhem Operation? b) Why was the Battle of the Bulge mostly successful? | a) Allies advance through Holland using paratroopers b) Took Americans by surprise, Germans surrounded them |
| Name three important changes in Sea Warfare after 1939 | Use of wolf pack tactics with U-boats/ Code breaking to decipher convoy locations/ emergence of the Aircraft carrier/ Hedgehog depth charges |
| What was the purpose of the Battle of the Atlantic? | Germany wanted to dominate the Atlantic ocean to cut off supplies to Britain to the USA to try and starve Britain out |
| List two reasons for German success between 1939 and 1942 | Used new wolf pack tactics by U-Boats/ British escort vehicles were out of date/ No long range aircraft to give cover across the Atlantic/ Night and surface U-Boat attack avoided detection by ASDIC |
| What was used to cut off British supplies from the USA? | U-Boats/ submarines |
| a) List two battles in which Aircraft carriers played an important role b) Why were the Battle of Taranto and Pearl Harbor so important? | a) The Battle of Taranto/ Pearl Harbor/ The Battle of the Coral Sea/ The Battle of Midway b) Showed how aircraft carriers could launch surprise attacks on navies at anchor, devastating whole fleets |
| List 2 events in which airpower played an important role | Blitzkrieg in Poland and France/ Dunkirk/ D-Day Landings/ Blitz of London/ Allied bombing of Germany |
| The aim of the Battle of Britain was to destroy RAF airfields and establish control of British airspace before invasion. True or False | True |
| Name 3 reasons why the RAF was so successful in the Battle of Britain | Radar developed to locate enemy aircraft/ sector stations directed RAF to intercept German bombers/ shot down German pilots became POWs but British pilots returned to flight/ Hurricanes and Spitfires were better than German Messerschmidt/ German fighters only had 30 minutes of fuel so bombers had to fly unescorted |
| a) What were the main aims of the Blitz? b) Name three cities attacked during the Blitz | a)Destroy morale of British/ seriously disrupt British industrial production and communications b) London, Coventry, Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow, Plymouth |
| a) Give one detail of the V-1 b) Give one detail of the V-2 | a) A flying bomb powered by a rocket engine/ Flew towards target until it ran out of fuel/ 6000 bombs dropped/ caused 2000 casualties b) So fast it couldn't be seen or shot down/ flew at speeds of 4000k/h / caused 900 casualties/ 500 v2s hit London between September 1944 and March 1945 |
| List two reasons why the Allied bombing of cities such as Dresden were criticized | Dresden wasn't an industrial centre and killed many refugees who had fled from the Russian front/ 100,000 deaths in Dresden alone/ it didn't weaken German morale but only boosted the need for revenge/ air power alone couldn't defeat the enemy/ cost allies 140,000 airmen and 21,000 planes |
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