D-Day

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The D-Day attack was codenamed:

• The Alamo

• Remember Pearl

• Operation Overlord

• Operation Normandy

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The D-Day attack occurred along the

German-held shores of this Western

European nation:

• Portugal

• France

• Ethiopia

• Poland

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This American was selected to plan and

lead the D-Day invasion:

• Dwight D Eisenhower

• Richard Nixon

• John F. Kennedy

• William Taft

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The D-Day invasion began with these

being dropped behind enemy lines:

• Pamphlets

• Bombs

• Paratroopers

• Tanks

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The D-Day invasion occurred in a region

of France known as this:

• London

• Paris

• Portugal

• Normandy

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Tens of thousands of Allied soldiers were

carried from Britain to France across this

major body of water that separates the

two nations:

• Lake Michigan

• English Channel

• Gulf of Britain

• Great Salt Lake

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With the successful Allied invasion on

D-Day, France was soon liberated from

this European nation:

• Britain

• Germany

• Italy

• The Soviet Union

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Of the 160,000 Allied troops that took

part in D-Day, they were from the

nations of Britain, the U.S., and this

other present-day North American

nation:

• Japan

• Alaska

• Canada

• Brazil