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1. Which city on the Baltic coast was used by Hitler as a pretext for the German aggressive political behaviour toward Poland prior to the outbreak of World War II?
2. Germany signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union prior to their invasion of Poland, and in a secret clause of this treaty it was agreed that Soviet Union would participate in the attack, but what date did Soviet forces cross the Polish border?
3. After defeating Poland Hitler was anxious to launch an attack in the West. However, there were numerous delays resulting in the attack only commencing on what date?
4. Before embarking on the attack through the Low Countries Hitler turned his forces northwards, invading Denmark and Norway. The German forces in the far north at Narvik were forced to take up defensive positions on the Swedish border. Who was their commander?
5. British and French forces were forced into a defensive ring around Dunkirk and seemed to be at the mercy of the German armed forces and Luftwaffe, and yet a large proportion escaped back to England thanks to the British Navy and the Royal Air Force. How many?
6. The German High Command had no established planning for the invasion of Britain but eventually came up with one and gave the operation a code name. What was it?
7. The German invasion of the Soviet Union had set a specific line to reach referred to as the A-A line, what Russian cities did the A-A stand for?
8. Hitler, against the protestations of Guderian and several other high ranking officers, switched the focus of the Blitzkrieg south to surround Soviet forces around Kiev, at which city did the forces coming from the North meet those coming from the South, trapping more than 650,000 men?
9. The assault on Moscow, operation Typhoon, was finally resumed on 30th September 1941 but failed. What suburb of Moscow was as close as the German Army got?
10. The German 6th Army formed a hedgehog position around Stalingrad and, after orders from Hitler, waited for relief from outside. What Russian town, held by the Germans, was closest to the relief forces?
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