9.3.4: The Netherlands during WW2 -Q facts-

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9. The Time of World Wars

9.3.4: the Netherlands during WW2

Facts

Q

Read: "the German Invasion"
1a. Give three reasons why the Dutch army was unable
to stop the Germans invading the Netherlands

1b. After General Winkelman signed his surrender to the Germans,
many Dutch soldiers tried to flee to England.
Why did they want to go to England?

2a. Why did the Germans bomb Rotterdam?

1. To give a demonstration of what the German Luftwaffe was capable of
2. to show that German resistance is futile
3. to destroy Dutch warships in the Rotterdam harbour
4. to force the Netherlands to capitulate

2b. What happened to the Dutch government?

1. the government including queen Wilhelmina surrendered to the Germans
2. the government including queen Wilhelmina fled to London
3. the government including queen Wilhelmina cooperated with the Germans
4. the government including queen Wilhelmina fled to Belgium

3. What was the reason for the Germans
to deploy paratroopers in the Netherlands?

4. Read "adjustment and nazification"

How did most Dutch people deal with the German occupation?

1. they resisted
2. they collaborated
3. they fled
4. they adapted

5. What did Seyss-Inquart hope to achieve with the Dutch people?
How did he try to achieve this goal?

6. Why did the Germans need Dutch people to work in German factories?

7. Put the steps of the "persecution of the Dutch Jews"

in the correct  order

banishment from public places

transit camps

transport to extermination camps

Ariërverklaring

wearing the yellow "star of David"

8. Use "illegal newspapers" to illustrate the difference between active and passive resistance.

9a. What was the reason for the February strike in 1941?

9b. Why did a large scale strike like the February Strike only take place once during the occupation?

10. The tune from Beethoven's fifth symphony was adopted by the BBC because its rythm matched the morse code for the letter V, which was widely used as a symbol for Allied victory

1. correct
2. not correct

11. Look at the map of Operation Market Garden.
Why didn't the Allies go directly to the Ruhr area through
Limburg?

12. Explain how the strike of the railway workers worsened the situation for people in the north-western Netherlands.

13. These children are collecting wood from tramway
sleepers (bielzen).
Why would they do that?

extermination camp

bombardment

collaboration

capitulation

passive resistance

transit camp

nazification

14. Match the words

Westerbork

Winkelman

NSB

Seyss-Inquart

Rotterdam

Radio Oranje

Sobibor

15a. Which of the events, people or concepts is
the odd one out?

1. Anton Mussert
2. Seyss-Inquart
3. General Winkelman
4. NSB

15b. Which of the events, people or concepts is
the odd one out?

1. censorship
2. NSB membership
3. forced labour
4. Chamber of Culture

15c. Which of the events, people or concepts is
the odd one out?

1. Jewish schools
2. Westerbork concentration camp
3. February Strike
4. wearing a yellow star

15d. Which of the events, people or concepts is
the odd one out?

1. February Strike
2. ‘Radio Oranje'
3. illegal newspapers
4. sabotage actions

Write down one question about something in this lesson that you still don't fully understand.

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