WWII Western Front

To make sure troops had everything they need, Americans were forced to ______________

• ration: government doled out how much gas, food, clothes, etc, people could have

• give everything they had to troops

• have Meatless Mondays

Who was Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall?

• The commander of the Navy

• The supreme allied commander of the Western Theater of the war

• The general who captured Berlin

What finally opened up a second front in the Western theater of WWII

• Operation Torch

• D-Day Invasion of Normandy

• Peninsular Campaign

• Battle of the Bulge

What was the name of Germany's last offensive strike?

• D-Day

• Pearl Harbor

• The Battle of Stalingrad

• The Battle of the Bulge

Which of the following would have likely been World War II era newspaper headlines? (Choose 3 that apply)

• "Atom Bomb Blasts Japan: New Era in Warfare Has Begun"

• "Italy Begins Ruthless Sea Warfare: Submarine Crisis Confronts the United States"

• "Japan's Fleet Crippled, Driven Back at Midway"

• "Allied Armies Land in France: Great Invasion is Under Way"

As the Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front, this was the site of the defense and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain from 26 May to 4 June 1940

• Stalingrad

• Dunkirk

• Battle of the Bulge

• Pearl Harbor

the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.

• Operation Torch

• Operation Overlord (D-Day)

• Operation Barbarossa

• Operation Sea Lion

was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. This would end up being the last offensive made by Germany who, after their defeat, would retreat for the remainder of the war

• Dunkirk

• Operation Torch

• Operation Overlord (D-Day)

• Battle of the Bulge

What was the primary objective of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944?

• To liberate Paris from German occupation

• To establish a Western front against Nazi Germany

• To capture Berlin and end the war

• To destroy German U-boat bases

Which countries were primarily involved in the Western Front of WWII?

• Germany, Italy, and Japan

• United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union

• Germany, United States, and United Kingdom

• France, Soviet Union, and China