Quiz 4

Question 1

Hitler was convinced that defeating the Soviet Union depended on destroying the _______________.

Answer 1

Soviet Economy

Question 2

The city of _________________, which controlled the Volga River and was a major railroad junction was the key to the attack.

Answer 2

Stalingrad

Question 3

When German troops entered Stalingrad in _______________, Stalin ordered his troops to hold the city at all cost.

Answer 3

mid September

Question 4

__________________ put the Germans on the Defensive

Answer 4

The Battle of Stalingrad

Question 5

In January 1943 Roosevelt and Churchill headed to _________________ to meet and discuss the next stage of the war.

Answer 5

Casablanca Morocco

Question 6

At the _________________FDR and Churchill agreed to steep up the bombing in Germany.

Answer 6

Casablanca Conference

Question 7

The allies also agreed to attack the Axis on the island of _______________.

Answer 7

Sicily

Question 8

General Eisenhower commanded the invasion of Sicily, with _________1____________ and ________2_________ heading the ground forces.

Answer 8

1. General Patton

2. General Montgomery

Question 9

The king of Italy __________________, and a group of Italian generals decided it was time to dispose of Mussolini.

Answer 9

Victor Emmanuel

Question 10

Following Italy’s surrender, German troops seized control of northern Italy, including Rome and returned ______________ to power.

Answer 10

Mussolini

Question 11

The terrain near ____________ was steep,barren, and rocky.

Answer 11

Cassino

Question 12

The Allies would land at ______________ behind the German lines.

Answer 12

Anzio

Question 13

The ______________ was one of the bloodiest in the war with more than 300,000 Allied casualties.

Answer 13

Italian campaign

Question 14

In late 1943, Stalin agreed, proposing that Roosevelt and Churchill in _____________.

Answer 14

Tehran Iran

Question 15

The leaders reached several agreements:

Answer 15

1. Stalin promised to launch a full scale offensive against the Germans when the Allies invaded France in 1944.
2. FDR and Stalin agreed to divide Germany after the war so that it would never again threaten world peace.
3. Stalin promised once Germany was defeated, the Soviet Union would help the United States with Japan.
4. He also accepted FDR’s proposal of an international peacekeeping organization after the war.

Question 16

At _______1________ Roosevelt selected General Eisenhower to be in command of _________2__________.

Answer 16

1. Cairo, Egypt

2. Operation Overlord

Question 17

Hitler had fortified the French Coast along the English Channel all the way along the coast at Norway which would be known as the ______________________.

Answer 17

Atlantic Wall

Question 18

__________________ would be in charge of the creation of the Atlantic Wall.

Answer 18

Erwin Rommel

Question 19

The real target was farther south, a 60-mile stretch of five beaches along the __________________.

Answer 19

Normandy coast

Question 20

The selection of the site for the largest amphibious landing in history was one of the largest___________________.

Answer 20

decisions of WW2

Question 21

The invasion had to begin at night to hide the ships crossing the __________________.

Answer 21

English Channel

Question 22

The first opportunity for the invasion was from ____________________.

Answer 22

June 5-7 1944

Question 23

Eisenhower’s planning staff referred to the day any operation began the letter__________.

Answer 23

D

Question 24

Shortly after midnight on ___________________ Eisenhower gave the final orders to launch the invasion.

Answer 24

June 6, 1944

Question 25

Thousand of shells rained down on the beaches code name _______1________,______2______,____3___,_____4____,____5_____.

Answer 25

1. Omaha 2. Utah 3. Gold 4. Sword 5. Juno

Question 26

Sword island code name invader

Answer 26

British and French

Question 27

Juno island code name invader

Answer 27

Canada

Question 28

Omaha and Utah island code name invader

Answer 28

America

Question 29

Gold island code name invader

Answer 29

British

Question 30

___________________ 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.

Answer 30

Omaha Beach

Question 31

__________________, commander of the American forces landing at Omaha and Utah, began making plans to evacuate.

Answer 31

General Omar Bradley

Question 32

Surrounding many fields in Normandy were _____________.

Answer 32

hedgerows

Question 33

_______________-dirt walls, several feet thick, covered in shrubbery.

Answer 33

hedgerows

Question 34

________________________ were French civilians who had secretly organized to resist the German occupation-staged a rebellion in Paris.

Answer 34

The French Resistance

Question 35

His goal was to cut off Allied supplies coming through the port of ______________________.

Answer 35

Antwerp Belgium

Question 36

The attack began just before dawn on ________________.

Answer 36

December 16 1944

Question 37

As German troops raced west their lines bulged outward and the attack became known as the _____________.

Answer 37

Battle of the Bulge