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Web quest: THE U Boat peril
Click the Hyperlink above entitled “The U Boat Peril”.
ALL QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED IN FULL SENTENCES FOR CREDIT.
1A. Winston Churchill wrote that, '... the only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril'. What is the German word that was shortened to U-Boat? What is the English word for the vessel?
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1B. What would be the consequences if Britain had lost the Battle of the Atlantic?
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2A. How did the U.S. help Britain with their war in the Atlantic and what did the USA receive in return?
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2B. How many tons of Allied ships were lost in the six months following the Fall of France in June 1940?
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3A. The US was neutral for most of the Battle of the Atlantic, how did Canada help Britain fight?
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3B. Which US ship was destroyed by German U-Boat 562 on Halloween 1941?
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4. What was the Mid-Atlantic gap and how did the Allies attempt to fix it?
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5A. What was the name of the British code breaking outfit that broke the Enigma Code?
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5B. Why was Operation Drumbeat a “happy time” for German submariners?
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6A. What was the crisis of the Battle of the Atlantic (Hint: what did Britain not have)?
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6B. How many British and German sailors died in the Battle of the Atlantic?
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