Quiz 4 Flashcards
Hitler was convinced that defeating the Soviet Union depended on destroying the _______________.
Soviet Economy
The city of _________________, which controlled the Volga River and was a major railroad junction was the key to the attack.
Stalingrad
When German troops entered Stalingrad in _______________, Stalin ordered his troops to hold the city at all cost.
mid September
__________________ put the Germans on the Defensive
The Battle of Stalingrad
In January 1943 Roosevelt and Churchill headed to _________________ to meet and discuss the next stage of the war.
Casablanca Morocco
At the _________________FDR and Churchill agreed to steep up the bombing in Germany.
Casablanca Conference
The allies also agreed to attack the Axis on the island of _______________.
Sicily
General Eisenhower commanded the invasion of Sicily, with _________1____________ and ________2_________ heading the ground forces.
- General Patton
2. General Montgomery
The king of Italy __________________, and a group of Italian generals decided it was time to dispose of Mussolini.
Victor Emmanuel
Following Italy’s surrender, German troops seized control of northern Italy, including Rome and returned ______________ to power.
Mussolini
The terrain near ____________ was steep,barren, and rocky.
Cassino
The Allies would land at ______________ behind the German lines.
Anzio
The ______________ was one of the bloodiest in the war with more than 300,000 Allied casualties.
Italian campaign
In late 1943, Stalin agreed, proposing that Roosevelt and Churchill in _____________.
Tehran Iran
The leaders reached several agreements:
- Stalin promised to launch a full scale offensive against the Germans when the Allies invaded France in 1944.
- FDR and Stalin agreed to divide Germany after the war so that it would never again threaten world peace.
- Stalin promised once Germany was defeated, the Soviet Union would help the United States with Japan.
- He also accepted FDR’s proposal of an international peacekeeping organization after the war.
At _______1________ Roosevelt selected General Eisenhower to be in command of _________2__________.
- Cairo, Egypt
2. Operation Overlord
Hitler had fortified the French Coast along the English Channel all the way along the coast at Norway which would be known as the ______________________.
Atlantic Wall
__________________ would be in charge of the creation of the Atlantic Wall.
Erwin Rommel
The real target was farther south, a 60-mile stretch of five beaches along the __________________.
Normandy coast
The selection of the site for the largest amphibious landing in history was one of the largest___________________.
decisions of WW2
The invasion had to begin at night to hide the ships crossing the __________________.
English Channel
The first opportunity for the invasion was from ____________________.
June 5-7 1944
Eisenhower’s planning staff referred to the day any operation began the letter__________.
D
Shortly after midnight on ___________________ Eisenhower gave the final orders to launch the invasion.
June 6, 1944
Thousand of shells rained down on the beaches code name _______1________,______2______,____3___,_____4____,____5_____.
- Omaha
- Utah
- Gold
- Sword
- Juno
Sword island code name invader
British and French
Juno island code name invader
Canada
Omaha and Utah island code name invader
America
Gold island code name invader
British
___________________ was only four miles long and overlooked a 150-foot high bluff and there were only five ravines leading from the beach to the top of the bluff.
Omaha Beach
__________________, commander of the American forces landing at Omaha and Utah, began making plans to evacuate.
General Omar Bradley
Surrounding many fields in Normandy were _____________.
hedgerows
_______________-dirt walls, several feet thick, covered in shrubbery.
hedgerows
________________________ were French civilians who had secretly organized to resist the German occupation-staged a rebellion in Paris.
The French Resistance
His goal was to cut off Allied supplies coming through the port of ______________________.
Antwerp Belgium
The attack began just before dawn on ________________.
December 16 1944
As German troops raced west their lines bulged outward and the attack became known as the _____________.
Battle of the Bulge
