Axis Advance - Germany

What comes first in a German blitzkrieg?

• A land attack

• An air attack

• A sea attack

Along with Germany, which other country was attacking Poland?

• France

• Italy

• Soviet Union

• Britain

True or False: The Germans went right through the French defensive line called the Maginot Line.

• True

• False

At Dunkirk, ______ was used to get the 300,000 British troops out of France and back to Britain.

• the German air force

• communist's tanks

• old submarines

• any available ship

Who helped Germany attack France?

• Italy

• Britain

• Soviet Union

• Poland

Hitler got his revenge on France for WWI by. . .

• making them pay reparations

• forcing them to sign a surrender treaty in the same railroad car that France forced Germany to sign in

• forcing them into concentration camps that he was building all over France

• allowing the Soviet Union to take over France

True or false: Operation Sea Lion was a success.

• True

• False

Who was the Nazi general attacking British forces in Africa?

• General Rommel

• Adolf Hitler

• Dr. Mengle

• Vichy

Germany also attacked countries in the Balkans region such as ___ and ____.

• Greece and Hungary

• Greece and Yugoslavia

• Yugoslavia and Italy

• Bulgaria & Hungary

Germany finally turned on the Soviet Union. How many Soviet soldiers died fighting off the Germans?

• 300,000

• one million

• two million

• two and a half million