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What was the name of the massive system of fortifications along the border between France and Germany?
The Maginot Line
The Siegfried Line
The Atlantic Wall
The Paris Defenses
The Rhineland Line
What French city was the site of an amazing evacuation of trapped English troops in May 1940?
Dunkirk
Paris
Normandy
Maginot
Toulon
After the fall of France, French General Charles de Gaulle organized a resistance movement called what?
The Free French
The Vichy French
The Allied Underground
The French Freedom Fighters
The French Liberators
What was the Battle of Britain in 1940-41?
An air war over England between the Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe.
A naval engagement off the coast of London between the British Channel Fleet and the German Navy.
A limited ground war between German amphibious troops and the British Army.
An invasion of England by Germans and their Irish supporters through Ireland.
A German submarine campaign around the British home islands targeted at merchant shipping.
Who was the senior U.S. naval leader who took over the leadership of the U.S. Navy following Pearl Harbor?
Admiral King
Admiral Donitz
Admiral Rommel
Admiral Kent Hewitt
Admiral Montgomery
What was the Battle of the Atlantic?
The German submarine campaign against Allied shipping in the Atlantic.
An air war over England between the Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe.
A naval engagement off the coast of London between the British Channel Fleet and the German Navy.
An invasion of England by Germans and their Irish supporters through Ireland.
A limited ground war between German amphibious troops and the British Army.
What was the German U-boat wolf-pack tactic?
A coordinated attack against a convoy by up to 30 or 40 German submarines.
One submarine would "cry wolf" by using false radio transmissions to throw off the defending destroyers while the others attacked.
To trail convoys and pick off the weakest ships.
To sail out of a port in a pack, the split up to confuse the Allied search planes.
To paint the faces of wolves on their submarines to terrorize the ships they were chasing.
Why was the German conquest of Norway and France important to U-boat warfare?
It allowed the Germans to set up sub bases there and cut the transit time in half to their operating stations.
Because the French coastal antisubmarine defenses could be taken out.
Norway and France had the raw materials needed to build more submarines.
Norway and France had the fuel reserves to ensure that the submarine fleet never ran out of oil.
The capture of French and Norwegian submarines gave Germany a technological lead in undersea warfare.
The flow of maritime supplies through which Russian port proved critical to the war in the east?
Murmansk
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Vladivostok
Stalingrad
What famous antisubmarine group exploit was carried out under the leadership of Captain Dan Gallery in June 1944?
The capture of a German submarine.
The first use of Hedgehog weapons to destroy a submarine.
The first use of Sonar to locate a submarine.
The first use of a submarine to kill another submarine.
The first ramming of a submarine on the high seas.
What new technology did German U-Boats use late in the war to try and overcome Allied antisubmarine defenses?
Snorkels
Sonar jamming systems
Sonar
Nuclear propulsion
Anti-ship missiles which could be fired underwater.
What was Operation Torch?
The Allied amphibious landings in North Africa.
The Allied amphibious landings in Sicily.
The Allied amphibious landings in Italy.
The Allied amphibious landings in France.
The Allied amphibious landings in England.
What resistance did the Vichy French forces put up against the Allies during the North African landings?
Some resistance at Casablanca, but almost none elsewhere.
No resistance was give at all.
A large amount at all landing points.
A large amount at Casablanca and significant amounts at the others.
They stopped the Allies at Casablanca but could not hold them off in the other areas.
As an indirect result of the Allied victory in Africa, what happened to the Vichy French Naval Fleet?
They were scuttled in Toulon, France.
They surrendered to the Free French forces.
They reverted to German control and flew the German flag.
They lacked the fuel to put to sea and remained in port for the remainder of the war.
They sortied out to save the German forces and were defeated at sea by the British fleet.
What battle turned the tide for the Allies on the eastern front in 1942-43?
Stalingrad
Casablanca
Anzio
Guadalcanal
Gallipoli
What was the most significant result of the Sicilian campaign of 1943 for the Allies?
It largely eliminated Italy from the war.
Germany lost her only naval base in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Axis forces lost their primary source of food.
The Axis forces lost their primary source of oil.
The capture of German Field Marshall Rommel.
Where did the Allies stage an invasion in January 1944 to try to accomplish an "end run" around the Gustav Line in Italy?
Anzio
Salerno
Naples
Rome
Corsica
Where did the massive Allied invasion of northern France take place in June 1944?
Normandy
Anzio
Salerno
Dunkirk
Casablanca
Why were the landings at Normandy delayed by one day?
To get favorable weather.
To get all available forces in place.
To ensure an adequate supply of fuel for the operation.
To allow the navies another day to shell German coastal defenses.
Because of intelligence that a major German Division was pulling out on 5 June.
What made possible the rapid movement of Allied forces through France after the Normandy invasion.
Control of the air.
Faster tanks and trucks than the German Army had.
The good road and rail systems in France.
Control of the seas.
The German Army was not as strong as the Allies had thought.
What was the last major German offensive against the Allies?
The Battle of the Bulge
Stalingrad
Normandy
The Siegfried Line
The Blitzkrieg
When and where did Germany surrender to Allied forces?
On 7 May 1945 in Reims, France.
On 10 May, 1945 in Berlin.
On 7 May, 1945 in Paris France
On 10 May, 1945 in Reims, France
On 8 May, 1945 in London, England
In April of 1940, Hitler invaded what two countries?
Denmark and Norway
Poland and France
Poland and Norway
France and Denmark
France and England
What was the name of the German General who led the Afrika Korps in North Africa?
Rommel
Churchill
De Gaulle
Pétain
Blitzkrieg
In what month and year did German forces invade the Soviet Union?
June, 1941
September, 1939
April, 1940
May, 1940
June, 1940
What was the name of the German Admiral in charge of U-Boat operations at the start of World War II?
Admiral Donitz
Admiral Rommel
Admiral Goering
Admiral King
Admiral Von Spee
What was the name of the U.S. escort carrier that captured the German submarine U-505?
The USS Guadalcanal
The USS Hornet
The USS Langley
The USS Saratoga
The USS Lexington
What was the prime objective of Operation Torch?
The port of Casablanca
The port of Naples
The invasion of France
The capture of General Rommel
The port of Algiers
The failure of the Vichy French to prevent the Allied landings in North Africa caused the Germans to do what?
Hitler ordered the occupation of the whole of France.
Germany withdrew from France
Germany withdrew from North Africa
Germany withdrew from the League of Nations.
Sue for peace with the French.
Which one of the Allied countries objected to an Allied invasion of Europe in the Spring of 1942?
England
The United States
The Soviet Union
Japan
France
What was the name of the meeting of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in January, 1943?
The Casablanca Conference
The Yalta Conference
The Paris Conference
The Washington Conference
The Morocco Conference
What Admiral was in command of the U.S. amphibious forces for Operations Torch and Husky?
Hewitt
Montgomery
King
Nimitz
Churchill
Operation Avalanche was the Allied plan to invade what country?
Italy
North Africa
Sicily
France
Turkey
Where did most of the Italian Fleet surrender to the Allies?
Malta
Salerno
Genoa
La Spezia
Naples
During which of the Allied landings in Europe did the German first use "Glide Bombs" against Allied ships?
Operation Avalanche
Operation Husky
Operation Torch
Operation Overlord
Operation Anvil
What was the name of the German defensive line established halfway between Naples and Rome during World War II?
The Gustav Line
The Maginot Line
The Siegfried Line
The Luftwaffe Line
The Blitzkrieg Line
Which of the following beaches were designated for the American Forces for the Normandy landings?
Omaha and Utah
Omaha and Gold
Omaha and Gold
Juno and Sword
Gold and Sword
Throughout the Normandy invasion, what was the single most deadly weapon used by the Germans?
Mines
Torpedoes
Submarines
Shore guns
Tanks
What was the name of the Allied invasion of Southern France?
Operation Anvil
Operation Overlord
Operation Torch
Operation Husky
Operation Avalanche
What was the reason for the delay in the Allied landings in Southern France?
A shortage of landing craft.
Bad weather.
The German submarine threat.
The German battleship threat.
There was no delay in the Allied landings here.
What was the name of the German Field Marshal that launched the "Battle of the Bulge" against the Allied forces?
Von Rundstedt
Rommel
Donitz
De Gaulle
Montgomery
At what town did 101st Airborne Division stop the German advance during the Battle of the Bulge?
Bastogne
Paris
Verdun
Dijon
Cherbourg
Where did the U.S. Navy make it's last direct contribution in the fight against Germany?
The Rhine River
Cherbourg
Naples
Normandy
The Elbe River
Which of the Allied Powers was the first to enter Berlin?
The Soviet Union
England
France
The United States
Canada
Benito Mussolini was captured and killed while trying to escape to what country?