The Second World War and the Holocaust
What's covered
Key facts
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi extermination camp.
The Battle of Britain (1940) was fought mainly in the air between the RAF and the German Luftwaffe.
Auschwitz was the largest Nazi extermination camp, in occupied Poland, killing more than a million people.
The Blitz was the German bombing of British cities (1940–41).
Children were evacuated from cities to escape German bombing raids during WW2.
The sustained German bombing campaign against British cities was called the Blitz.
Children evacuated from British cities during WW2 were called evacuees.
Britain declared war on Germany in 1939 because Germany invaded Poland despite British and French warnings to withdraw.
The Nazi "Final Solution", agreed at the Wannsee Conference in 1942, was the plan to murder Europe's Jews.
D-Day, the Allied landings in Normandy, took place on 6 June 1944.
Sample questions
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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 did the Holocaust refer to under Nazi policy?
- •Mass conscription of teenagers into the army
- •Mass evacuation of Germans to the countryside
- •Mass production of weapons for the Eastern Front
- ✓The systematic murder of around 6 million Jewish people
On what date did Allied forces land in Normandy as 'D-Day'?
- •1 September 1939
- •19 August 1942
- ✓6 June 1944
- •8 May 1945
What was the Nazi plan, agreed at Wannsee in 1942, to murder Europe's Jews called?
- ✓the Final Solution
- •the Madagascar Plan
- •the Night of Broken Glass
- •the Nuremberg Laws
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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