Dr Ashcroft - REVISION 2: The Second World War - U4

Question 1

What year did the Second World War start?

Accepted Answer

1939

Question 2

Did the RAF help to protect the soldiers on the beaches?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 3

What was the name of the German leader?

Accepted Answer

Hitler

Question 4

How many Allied troops handed landed by September 1944?

Accepted Answer

2 million

Question 5

Why was Dunkirk seen as a failure?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 6

Which port were soldiers evacuated from?

Accepted Answer

Dunkirk

Question 7

What was Hitler's target during the Blitz?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 8

Within a week of the evacuation of Dunkirk, France had surrendered.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

Why did Britain win the Battle of Britain?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 10

How many Allied troops landed on the first day?

Accepted Answer

156,000

Question 11

What was the British Expeditionary Force (BEF)?

Accepted Answer

Army

Question 12

What were the names of the British beaches?

Accepted Answer

Gold & Sword

Question 13

What year did the Second World War end?

Accepted Answer

1945

Question 14

How many boats and ships rescued the soldiers from the beaches?

Accepted Answer

900

Question 15

How many people are believed to have died during the Second World War?

Accepted Answer

50-80 million

Question 16

What nationality were the pilots who flew in the RAF during the Battle of Britain?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 17

What does VE Day stand for?

Accepted Answer

Victory in Europe

Question 18

How many soldiers were evacuated from Dunkirk?

Accepted Answer

338,000

Question 19

What was the codename given to the D-Day Landings?

Accepted Answer

Operation Overlord

Question 20

What was the codename given to the evacuation?

Accepted Answer

Operation Dynamo

Question 21

What were the Germans targeting in the Battle of Britain?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 22

How did the RAF retaliate when the Germans accidentally bombed London?

Accepted Answer

They bombed Berlin

Question 23

What year did the D-Day landings take place

Accepted Answer

1944

Question 24

What were the names of the American beach heads?

Accepted Answer

Omaha & Utah

Question 25

What was the name of the Supreme Commander in charge of the D-Day landings?

Accepted Answer

General Eisenhower

Question 26

What was the name of the soldier who secretly took sand samples before D-Day?

Accepted Answer

Colonel Sam Bassett

Question 27

How many people were made homeless during the Blitz?

Accepted Answer

2 million

Question 28

Where did the Allies pretend they were going to land during D-Day?

Accepted Answer

Calais

Question 29

What does the term 'Blitzkreig' mean?

Accepted Answer

Lightning war

Question 30

What nationality were the troops who were rescued?

Accepted Answer

British and French

Question 31

15,000 troops were left behind to surrender to the Germans and spent 5 years in Nazi POW camps

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

What was the code name for the Canadian beach?

Accepted Answer

Juno

Question 33

How many days in a row was London bombed during the Blitz?

Accepted Answer

75

Question 34

Who became the new British Prime Minister in May 1940?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 35

What was the original target of the number of soldiers to be rescued at Dunkirk?

Accepted Answer

50,000

Question 36

How many soldiers died at Dunkirk?

Accepted Answer

68,000

Question 37

What is an example of a 'Hobart's Funnies'?

Accepted Answer

All of them

Question 38

Which country did Hitler invade which started the Second World War?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 39

How many civilians were killed in the Blitz?

Accepted Answer

40,000

Question 40

How did the government try to protect its people?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 41

What was the size of the Allied fleet (navy) in Normandy?

Accepted Answer

7000 ships

Question 42

Who was the British Prime Minister at the start of the Second World War?

Accepted Answer

Neville Chamberlain

Question 43

What was the German code name for the Battle of Britain?

Accepted Answer

Operation Sealion

Question 44

Churchill called the bravery at Dunkirk, the 'Dunkirk....?'

Accepted Answer

spirit

Question 45

Why did Hitler invade France by going through Belgium?

Accepted Answer

To avoid the Maginot Line

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