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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. Who made the following criticism: "The best way to describe our operations to date, is that they have violated every recognized principle of war, are in conflict with all operational and logistic methods laid down in textbooks, and will be condemned, in their entirety, by all Leavenworth and war college classes for the next twenty-five years."

2. What was Fredendall's success in securing Faid Pass, Sened Station and Maknassy?

3. What mistake did Anderson initially repeat at Fondouk gap?

4. Which two passes did the Germans utilize in operation Fruhlingswind?

5. Rommel coined the phrase "Krieg ohne Hass" regarding the two years of war in the desert. What does it mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the battle at Mareth, Montgomery made a mid-battle change of plans that his admirers consider one of the boldest decisions of his career. What was the decision?

2. How did the Axis 'draft' Tunisian Jews for work details around Bizerte and Tunis?

3. Old Mac's counterattack at Faid Pass was probably too small a force, but what other mistake did Old Mac make in putting forth the attack?

4. What controversial proclamation was made by Roosevelt that Churchill later, and probably falsely, claimed had caught him short?

5. Why was Fredendall's defense plan for Faid Pass considered a World War I defense?

6. What new artillery techniques did the American gunners utilize in routing the 10th Panzers from El Guettar?

7. Rather than focusing on Faid Pass, to what area did Fredendall unsoundly direct the Allied efforts?

8. What was the goal of operation SATIN?

9. What character trait made Robinett a difficult officer to command?

10. General Harold Alexander is introduced in Chapter 9, what was his position and what was his mission?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A major preoccupation of Eisenhower was politics. He was routinely criticized for spending more time concerned about political issues than commanding the front. What were his main areas of concern? And was this criticism accurate? Finally, how did forces conspire to form a solution to this at the Casablanca conference?

Essay Topic 2

What Allied mistakes were made in their attempt to take Longstop hill in December 1942 and were any of these mistakes repeated? In what way did these errors affect the relationship between the 'cousins?' Finally, what consequence for the war as a whole did this battle have?

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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