War in Europe

Europe's soft underbelly, where America would land and begin their fight on the European continent was

• Northern Africa

• Normandy, France

• Italy

• Great Britain

The Blitz was the nickname for Germany's attack on

• the USSR

• Czechoslovakia

• Poland

• Great Britain

Because German submarines were wreaking havoc on American ships crossing the Atlantic, the US developed this to avoid as much damage to our ships as possible.

• U-Boat system

• convoy system

• Atlantic Charter

• D-Day Invasion

Which of the following is NOT true regarding Operation Overlord?

• Hitler believed the Allies would attack at a different, more narrower point across the English Channel

• The USA landed at Omaha and Utah beaches

• The invasion created an Eastern Front in Europe to help spread the German Army out.

• The nickname for this invasion was known as D-Day

America's revenge mission to drop bombs on the city of Tokyo in April of 1942.

• Battle of the Bulge

• Doolittle Raid

• El Alamein

• Operation Overlord

Turning point battle in North Africa that allowed the Allies to begin pushing the Germans back North

• Battle of the Atlantic

• El Alamein

• Operation Overlord

• Stalingrad

Turning point on the Eastern Front. The USSR begins pushing Germany back West.

• Stalingrad

• El Alamein

• Operation Overlord

• Battle of the Atlantic

Codename for the Allied invasion to create a second front in France. Landed in Normandy, France.

• Operation Overlord

• The Blitz

• Operation Barbarrosa

• Operation Tannenbaum

Codename for the German invasion of the USSR.

• El Alamein

• D-Day

• Operation Overlord

• Operation Barbarossa

The USA won this by breaking German codes to show U-Boat locations.

• El Alamein

• D-Day

• The Blitz

• Battle of the Atlantic