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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 are the troops given to communicate with each other once they are on the ground?

2. Who is against the initial plans for the British airborne forces to take Caen?

3. The ME-262's are to be known as what?

4. What river is a boundary between the German's Fifteenth and Seventh army divisions, providing an area of weakness for the Allies?

5. Who has the greatest doubts about the probability of D-Day success until witnessing the dress rehearsal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eisenhower say in the orders given out as troops head to the invasion site?

2. What are the exact numbers of Allied bombers and fighters that take part in D-Day?

3. What are the similarities in the backgrounds of Eisenhower and Rommel?

4. How do the commanders and leaders feel about the D-Day plans by the time of the May 15 dress rehearsal?

5. What efforts does Rommel make to defend the French coastline in addition to the Atlantic Wall?

6. Why does Hitler order German physicists to abandon work on developing the atomic bomb?

7. What is the reason the Allies needed a soil sample from Calvados before a final decision could be made?

8. What goes wrong with many of the paratroopers' jumps during the invasion?

9. What are the plans for taking Omaha beach?

10. How does the French Resistance help the Allies as they prepare for D-Day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the image of a young soldier beside someone whose dead hand bobs, "Cornelia Otis Skinner's Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" capture the essence of what happened on D-day?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the home fronts and the dramatic changes the war brought to the fabric of the various nations involved.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the backgrounds, careers, and leadership styles of Rommel and Eisenhower. How are their places in history both unique to the men and universal to the responsibility thrust upon them?

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