war for europe and north africa

Read the remainder of Chapter 25-2 (pages 779 onward) (War for Europe and North Africa) and post your answers to the following questions in your blog. Your answers are due at the beginning of class Tuesday. Title: War for Europe and North Africa - Part II Labels: WWII, FDR, Churchill, D-Day, Battle_of_Bulge, Germany, Hitler, Truman

6. What was D-Day?
June 6, an allied invasion, largest land-air-sea operation in army history.
7. What happened at the Battle of the Bulge?
The fight went on for a month and nothing seemed to have changed axcept that the Germans were now weakened and could do little but retreat.
8. What did Allied troops find in Germany?
The city was in panick and soldiers were shot.
9. What happened to Hitler? What happened to F.D. Roosevelt? Who became U.S. President?
Hitler shot himself, FDR had a stroke and dies and Harry Truman became president.

war for europe and north africa

1. To what did Roosevelt and Churchill agree early in the war?
They agreed to be alliances and help eachother in the war.

2. Why was winning the Battle of the Atlantic so crucial to the fortunes of the Allies?
If Hitler won then Great Britain would be starved into submission, great britain relied on ship lines from America.

3. Why was the Battle of Stalingrad so important?
hitler wanted soviet oil fields and to wipe out the industrial center, sinvce they lost it gave the Soviet oppurtunity to pursue towards Germany.

4. What happened in the war in North Africa?
The allies confronted axis-controlled north Africa and won when the Afrikans surrendeered.

5. What happened after the Allies invaded Italy?
Germany itself collapsed freeing Italy.