Chapter 32 Flashcards
What battle was the turning point in the Soviet Union?
Stalingrad.
Who took Libyan port city of Tobruk in June 1942?
General Erwin Rommel.
What did Monty do?
Took the Axis by surprise starting the Battle of El
Alamein.
What force did Dwight D. Eisenhower lead?
Operation Torch.
When was Rommel’s Afrika Korps finally crushed?
May 1943.
What did Luftwaffe do in the Battle of Stalingrad?
Went on nightly bombing raids and set much of the city ablaze and reduced the rest to rubble.
About how many German troops surrendered to Soviet when they trapped them in their town?
About 90,000 half-starved Frostbitten troops.
How many were in the German army before their
surrender?
330,000
How did Roosevelt and Churchill invade Italy first?
They landed on Sicily and captured it from Italian and German troops.
What disatvantage came from moblizing the war in the US
There was a shortage of consumer goods
What did the US do with the Japanese Americans?
They placed them in camps
What was the plan for victory?
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the commander of this enormous force, planned to strike on the coast of Normandy, in northwestern France.
What happened during the battle of bulge?
On December 16, German tanks broke through weak
American defenses along a 75-mile front in the Ardennes, Although caught off guard, the Allies eventually
pushed the Germans back. The Germans had little choice
but to retreat, since there were no reinforcements available.
How did Hitler die?
He committed suicide with his wife Eva Braun right after they were married.
What were kamikazes?
Japanese suicide pilots. They would sink Allied ships
by crash-diving their bomb-filled planes into them.
