WORLD WAR II:  EUROPE
Questions/Thinking Points

Terms

Blitzkrieg
Sitzkrieg
Siegfried Line
Maginot Line
Dunkirk
Winston Churchill
The Battle of Britain
The Surrender of France (June 22, 1940)
Operation Barbarossa (June 22, 1941)
Tripartite Agreement (July 1941)
Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941)
"Germany first" strategy
Operation Torch (North Africa)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Casablanca Conference
Battle/Seige of Stalingrad
Operation Husky (Sicily)
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Yalta Conference
Death of Roosevelt
Death of Hitler

V-E Day
 

1.    Why did the Americans/Allies invade North Africa?
2.    What prompted the Casablanca Conference?  What occurred there?
3.    What was the significance of Stalingrad?
4.    What obstacles did the Allies face at Normandy?
5.    What decisions emerged from the Yalta Conference and what was the long-term signifiance of these decisions?