A War on Many Fronts

Question 1

Axis control-

Answer 1

1941

Question 2

america faced a two front war -

Answer 2

• in Europe and in the Pacific

Question 3

December 7, 1941-

Answer 3

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

Question 4

December 11, 1941-

Answer 4

Germany and Italy declared war on the US

President Roosevelt faced a global war

Question 5

Europe:

Answer 5

Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941

German forces threatened British control of the Suez Canal in North Africa

Question 6

In the Pacific:

Answer 6

Japanese forces held much of Southeast Asia and the East Indies
Did not look good for the Allies

Question 7

Axis Powers

Answer 7

Germany
Italy
Japan

Question 8

Allied Powers

Answer 8

Great Britain
Soviet Union
United States
China

France…

Question 9

Roosevelt and Churchill’s Strategy

Answer 9

August 1941- leaders met and signed the Atlantic Charter, which was:
set of principles that would define the alliance
Soon after Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt and Churchill met in Washington, DC

• discussed the challenges of fighting in two different theaters, or areas where operations of war occur.
  Europe First

Germany was the larger threat
German forces still threatened the survival of Great Britain and the Soviet Union
US planned to send the majority its resources to the European theater.

some members of the US military opposed this strategy
(Douglas)

Question 10

Attacking in the European Theater (1942)

Answer 10

Churchill and Roosevelt made plans to invade North Africa

Question 11

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1869)

Answer 11

Chosen to lead US forces in Europe

supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force

Question 12

North Africa was invaded in the fall of 1942

Answer 12

British forces defeated Erwin Rommel’s Africa Korps at the battle of EL Alamein in Egypt
The Allies launched Operation Torch
American and British forces landed in Morocco
They attacked from the west

Question 13

The Battle of Kasserine Pass

Answer 13

US Forces were defeated in their first battle
Field Marshal Rommel won at Kasserine Pass in Tunisia
Americans retreated but quickly recovered

Eisenhower placed Gen. George S. Patton in command
Improved US forces abilities

Victory in North America

by spring of 1943-
Allied armies had advanced from the east and the west
The German and Italian forces had retreated to the northern tip of Tunisia
Axis forces in North Africa surrendered in May 1943

Allied leaders set their sights on Sicily

Question 14

In December 1941,

Answer 14

Japan attacked several American and British territories, including 
Hong Kong
Malay Peninsula
Philippines 
Guam and Wake Island

Question 15

-A force commanded by Douglas MacArthur slowed the Japans advance

Answer 15

the troops retreated to the Bataan Peninsula
MacArthur was ordered to escape to Australia in March 1942
Bataan fell in April
Corregidor fell in may
—-Japanes forces captured all of the Philippines

Question 16

The Bataan Death March

Answer 16

• more than 75,000 American and Filipino soldiers surrendered at Bataan

Question 17

Supplying the Allies

Answer 17

US shifted its economy to wartime production

Question 18

Allies used

Answer 18

convoys to send supplies around the world

difficult to keep troops supplied in both theaters