The Beginning Years of the War (1939 - 1940)
Matching Exercise
Match each item on the left with the correct answer on the right
What the members of the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan were called
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English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
What the members of the alliance of Britian, France, Soviet Union, US, etc.
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
Body of water over which part of the Battle of Britain occurred
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English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
Country whose invasion started the war
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English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
German air force
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
British air force
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
Body of water on which all of Germany's ports were located
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English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
Place where Germans trapped the British and French forces
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
Nation that fell to Germany in June, 1940
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
Capital of German-controlled France
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
Leader of the Free French
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
Leader of the German-controlled French government
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
American journalist who broadcast his eyewitness acounts of the bombing of London
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
German commander of air force
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
Invention that helped British know where German planes were headed
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
American policy of sending war materials to the Allies in exchange for being allowed to use British bases in the Western Hemisphere
???
English Channel
North Sea
Edward R. Murrow
Vichy
Poland
Axis
Dunkirk
Charles De Gaulle
Luftwaffe
Allies
Lend-Lease
Hermann Goering
France
Marshal Petain
RAF
Radar
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