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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the naval battle of Casablanca, Hewitt faced El Hank. What was El Hank?
2. Inspired by the quality of the food during the Torch voyage, the 13th Armored Regiment suggested changing their battle cry to what?
3. Major Rudolph Barlow's surprise attack on an an Axis airfield discovered outside the city of Djedejida resulted in what?
4. On January 1, 1942, twenty-six countries signed an agreement to forswear any separate peace without mutual concurrence and to make a common cause of "life, liberty independence, and religious freedom, and to preserve the rights of man and justice." This group of nations called themselves:
5. What event did the President of the United States hope the invasion of North Africa would precede?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the American military cemetery at Carthage, Tunisia.
2. How did America support the Allied cause before formally joining the war?
3. What is Rear Admiral Hewitt's concept of Velvet?
4. Who supposedly made the following statement? "Whoever has Medjez-el-Bab has the key to the door, and is the master of all Tunisia."
5. In planning for the war, what risky initial American strategy did the British succeed in overturning?
6. What considerations did Terry Allen cite in bypassing St. Cloud?
7. Admiral Darlan did capitulate and surrender Algiers, but what order was he reluctant to make?
8. Allied ground troops were skeptical of the Allied air force's ability to discriminate between them and the Germans. What incident does the author use to illustrate this mistrust?
9. How did the coincidental presence of Admiral Darlan negatively effect the mission of Robert Murphy?
10. In the aftermath of the German attack on Medjez-el-Bab, McGinnis is relieved from Duty. Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the causes of the Anglophobia and tension between the American-British Alliance that grew in the ranks of American and British troops over the course of the North African war.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the strategic importance of Medjez-el-Bab, 'the key to Tunisia,' and it's episodes of trading hands during the War in North Africa.
Essay Topic 3
Chapter 2 describes the landings in Operation Torch. The decision to make frontal assaults on the three harbors of Oran, Algiers and Safi was British. Why did they choose this plan of attack and against what conventional wisdom? How did each of these assaults play out?
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