The Second World War and the Holocaust
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Key facts
Home front and the Holocaust
Auschwitz was the largest Nazi extermination camp, in occupied Poland, killing more than a million people.
The war in Europe
The Battle of Britain (1940) was fought mainly in the air between the RAF and the German Luftwaffe.
Home front and the Holocaust
Children were evacuated from cities to escape German bombing raids during WW2.
The war in Europe
The Blitz was the German bombing of British cities (1940–41).
Home front and the Holocaust
Children evacuated from British cities during WW2 were called evacuees.
The war in Europe
The sustained German bombing campaign against British cities was called the Blitz.
Home front and the Holocaust
The Nazi "Final Solution" was the plan to murder all of Europe's Jews; senior Nazi officials met at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942 to coordinate how it would be carried out.
The war in Europe
Britain declared war on Germany in 1939 because Germany invaded Poland despite British and French warnings to withdraw.
Home front and the Holocaust
The Holocaust was Nazi Germany's systematic state-sponsored murder of around six million European Jews.
The war in Europe
D-Day, the Allied landings in Normandy, took place on 6 June 1944.
Practice questions with answers
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What name was given to mass evacuation of British city children to safer rural areas?
- •Operation Dynamo
- •Operation Overlord
- ✓Operation Pied Piper
- •Operation Sea Lion
What was Operation Barbarossa in 1941?
- ✓Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union
- •The Allied landings at Normandy
- •The British evacuation from Dunkirk
- •The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
What was the Nazi plan to murder Europe's Jews, coordinated at the Wannsee Conference in 1942, called?
- ✓the Final Solution
- •the Madagascar Plan
- •the Night of Broken Glass
- •the Nuremberg Laws
On what date did Allied forces land in Normandy as 'D-Day'?
- •1 September 1939
- •19 August 1942
- ✓6 June 1944
- •8 May 1945
Why was food rationed in Britain during WW2?
- •Crops failed across Britain in 1940 and 1941
- •Farmers had been conscripted into the navy
- •Rationing was a peacetime habit kept on
- ✓U-boats sank merchant ships carrying food and supplies
Why was the Battle of Stalingrad a turning point in WW2?
- ✓It halted the German advance into the USSR
- •It led directly to atomic-bomb development
- •It marked the start of D-Day landings
- •It triggered Italy joining the Axis
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