Define/Identify the Following Terms and People

NAME______Block-______Chapter 17.2 Study Guide

Define/Identify the following terms and people. Dwight D. Eisenhower D-Day George Patton V-E Day Omar Bradley Audie Murphy Harry S. Truman Afrika Korps Tuskegee Airmen unconditional surrender Nisei 442nd Combat Regiment

Directions: As you read Ch.17.2, answer the following questions.

1. At their meeting on Dec.22, 1941, what decision concerning their war strategy did FDR and Churchill arrive at?

2. Describe the Battle of the Atlantic. Identify the combatants, methods, tactics, weapons. At what point in time did the tide of the battle change? In whose favor?

3. Describe the Battle of Stalingrad. Identify the combatants, methods, tactics, weapons. At what point in time did the tide of the battle change? In whose favor?

4. Describe the battle for North Africa. What was Operation Torch? What were the 3 Allied landing sites?

 Who commanded the Allied forces in North Africa?  Who commanded the Axis forces in North Africa? (Nickname)  When did the last of the Axis forces surrender? 5. What two things were discussed by Roosevelt and Churchill after their conference in Casablanca?

6. What country was described as the “soft underbelly of Europe?

7. The invasion and capture of what island served as the beginning of the Italian Campaign?

8. What happened to Mussolini as a result of the fall of Sicily?

9. What was the German response to the Italian collapse?

10. Why was the fighting at Anzio called “Bloody Anzio”?

11. What was D-Day?  Date?  Names of the Allied commanders?  German Field Marshal in charge of defending the “Atlantic Wall”?  Code names for the 5 landing beaches:

12. What was the Battle of the Bulge?

13. When were the first death camps liberated by the Allies?

14. On what date did Germany unconditionally surrender?

15. What was Hitler’s fate?

16. When did Franklin Roosevelt die? Who succeeded him as president?