Homework Check 12.3

President Franklin Roosevelt agreed with Prime Minister Winston Churchill's plan to attack the periphery of the German Empire, and in July 1942 ordered the invasion of Morocco and Algeria.

• True

• False

In May of 1943, German troops in North Africa succeeded in pushing Ameircan and Britich forces out of Tunisia.

• True

• False

Before D-Day, the Allies placed dummy equipment along the coast of Britain to convince the Germans that the Allies planned to land their invasion forces in Pas-de-Calais.

• True

• False

The invasion of France had to begin at night to hide the ships crossing the English Channel.

• True

• False

On D-Day, the AMerican landing at Omaha Beach went very well, unlike the landing at Gold Beach.

• True

• False

In the spring and summer of 1942, the Battle of the Atlantic slowly turned in favor of the Allies, due in part to new technology such as depth charges, radar, and

• B-25 bombers.

• sonar.

• mass production.

• convoy systems.

In November 1942, the American invasion of North Africa began under the command of which general?

• George Patton

• Chester Nimitz

• Douglas MacArthur

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Capturing Stalingrad was a key to Hitler's strategy to

• draw China into the war.

• force Stalin to sign a treaty.

• eradicate communism from the world.

• destroy the Soviet Union's economy.

At the Tehran Conference, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin agreed

• that the Soviet Union would help fight Japan after Germany was defeated.

• that Allied forces would not land in Pas-de-Calais.

• to name the invasion of France "Operation Overlord."

• to return Mussolini to power in Italy.