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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 Chapter 7, what was the date when Operation Watch began?

2. In Chapter 5, when did Roosevelt speak at Fenway Park?

3. At the end of Chapter 5, what was the operation that Hitler was planning?

4. In Chapter 6, how many Wehrmacht soldiers were located where the U.S. lines were the thinnest?

5. When did Omar Bradley graduate from West Point?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 7, what did the authors believe that the Germans were thinking before their attack?

2. How did Stalin's second wife die?

3. In Chapter 8 when Patton was asked what he could contribute to stop the Germans in the north, what did he have prepared?

4. What happened to Field Marshall Rommel in Chapter 2?

5. At the end of Chapter 8, what happened in Bastogne?

6. In Chapter 4, why did Churchill meet with Stalin?

7. In Chapter 6, what plans did Patton make in case the Germans were planning an offensive in the Ardennes Forest?

8. In Chapter 6, who was Col. Oscar Koch, and what did he do for Patton?

9. At the beginning of Chapter 5, how is Roosevelt described?

10. In Chapter 12, what did Patton do on Christmas Day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eisenhower’s ability to compromise was his greatest strength and his greatest weakness. In what way was Eisenhower’s ability compromise both a strength and a weakness? What examples are there that show how his compromises came from strength and from weakness?

Essay Topic 2

Roosevelt was a very different man in public than he was in private. In what ways were Roosevelt’s private and public personas very different? Why did he so clearly separate his public and private life? Why could he not reveal his handicap and his affair?

Essay Topic 3

By the end of the war, Hitler’s health was very precarious. How did Hitler’s health parallel the demise of the German forces? Were the two interconnected?

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