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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. What became the unofficial motto of Allied forces in Tunisia?
2. Whose personal credo is: "Always do whatever you can to keep your superior from making a mistake."
3. What was the first town to be captured by the Allies?
4. What decision by Rear Admiral Hewitt was considered "a brave decision, the decision of a commander," by Lord Lewis Mountbatten, the commander of British amphibious forces?
5. What political arrangement with the French particularly caused a public outcry in both the U.S. and Britain?
Short Essay Questions
1. In addition to arranging a bridge head around Tunis, what did Kesselring order his lieutenants to plan?
2. What personal knowledge made Mark Clark a dangerous leader for a covert mission behind enemy lines?
3. What domestic issues does the author suggest weighed on the President's mind in making the decision to move forward?
4. How did America support the Allied cause before formally joining the war?
5. Describe 'the Boy Captain' Robert R. Moore.
6. An aspect of TORCH that affected each layer of command was a lack of information about how the coordinated effort was going. According to the author, how was Patton's approach to this ambiguity different?
7. What considerations did Terry Allen cite in bypassing St. Cloud?
8. What is Rear Admiral Hewitt's concept of Velvet?
9. What locations did the Allies use as a rouse for the destination of Hewitt's fleet and Task force 34, and what deception plans did they use to that end?
10. What particular naval skill in Hewitt know for?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did the bureaucratic power of the British, as symbolized in the war room aboard the Bulolo, and the production capabilities of the American's complement one another in this phase of World War II?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
In Chapter 1, the planning for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa is described. A major piece of the planning was deciding on the location of the landings. Describe the perils of landing too far to the West, versus the perils of landing too far to the East. Contrast this plan with operation Sledgehammer, which the American's first suggested.
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