in-class #22: Pushing Back the Axis
Read chapter 21, section 4 only ("Pushing Back the Axis") on pages 736-745 and answer the questions below (be prepared to identify the bold italicized terms/persons):
1. What were the reasons, at the Casablanca Conference in 1943, that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill decided to step up the bombing of Germany?
2. After stopping the German Afrika Korps in North Africa, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill decided to attack Sicily and Italy before launching a cross-British Channel invasion of France. Why?
3. What agreements did President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier Stalin reach at the Tehran Confererence?
4. Why did the Allies choose Normandy as the site for the invasion of France in June 1940 and how did that decision reflect geo-political thinking? (see "Geography and History" on pages 744-755)?
5. What was the "island-hopping" strategy and why did the United States adopt it as part of the overall plan to defeat Japan?
1. What were the reasons, at the Casablanca Conference in 1943, that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill decided to step up the bombing of Germany?
2. After stopping the German Afrika Korps in North Africa, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill decided to attack Sicily and Italy before launching a cross-British Channel invasion of France. Why?
3. What agreements did President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier Stalin reach at the Tehran Confererence?
4. Why did the Allies choose Normandy as the site for the invasion of France in June 1940 and how did that decision reflect geo-political thinking? (see "Geography and History" on pages 744-755)?
5. What was the "island-hopping" strategy and why did the United States adopt it as part of the overall plan to defeat Japan?