Answers to Some Questions about World War II

p. 798 #1a-h, 3, 4, 5, 6
1. <Tab/>a) The "phony war" was the time when French and British forces stayed under the Maginot Line to protect themselves against German forces. There were no battles and everything was quiet.
b) A city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire
c) British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel Prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)
d) The prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it
e) The conquest of the Sovier Union. Hitler's motives were to gain living space for Germans and to win control of regions rich in resources. He unleashed a new blitzkrieg - the Russians lost two and a half million soldiers.
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