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6. At the end of World War I, the United States, Britain, and France had the most powerful air
forces in the world.
7. At the beginning of World War II, France had the best prepared air force in the world.
8. It was under the guise of commercial aviation that the German Air Force was revived after
World War I.
9. For World War II, Germany’s warfare strategy was a combined arms operations.
10. The tactic of Blitzkrieg was stopped by the French using the Maginot Line.
11. Hitler was surprised when Britain and France declared war on Germany.
12. The Battle of Britain began in August 1940 when German troops landed on the beaches of
Dover.
13. Britain and Italy joined forces in 1940, to defeat the Germans in North Africa.
14. The Germans used glider-borne and parachute troops to capture Crete in 1941.
15. On June 22, 1941, Germany invaded Russia.
16. By the end of 1941, the short-duration war Hitler had asked for settled down to a long struggle
of land armies.
17. Once the United States entered the war, the basic allied strategy was to change from the
defensive to the offensive.
18. At the beginning of the strategic bombing of Germany, the first priority targets were aircraft
factories.
19. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
20. The allied invasion of Europe was savagely contested by the Luftwaffe.
21. The Japanese strategy during the early part of World War II was to gain air superiority followed
by an invasion.
22. Two major defeats suffered by the United States in World War II were during the Battles of
Midway and the Coral Sea.
23. Pinpoint strategic bombing was used against Japan’s industry during World War II.
24. World War II was won by the technological and wartime production capabilities of the allied
powers.
25. The aircraft carrier became the dominant naval weapon of World War II.
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