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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 did Arnim do to undermine Rommel's attack on Le Kef and his designees on Tebessa?

3. The death of Admiral Darlan is considered to have had what effect on the Allies?

4. What plan did the British press on their American counterparts during the conference?

5. What did the H.M.S. Bulolo deliver to Casablanca to assist the British in their cause?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What two peculiarities does the author use to characterize Major General Orlando Ward?

5. How was Longstop positioned so that it represented a strategic point?

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

7. General Sir Alan Brooke, is characterized as one of the great generals of the war. But what tragedy in 1925 changed his charmed life and what permanent effects did it have?

8. What prescient claim of General 'Santa Clause' Everlegh's would turn out to be true, but not in the way he had hoped?

9. Describe the ancient city Eisenhower visited while the attack in Sidi Bou Zid was taking place?

10. What was 'Texas?'

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the prologue to the book, the author addresses the issue of Anglophilia between the British and the Americans. In what way was this shared prior to the bombing on Pearl Harbor? And in what way did the two world leaders, Churchill and Roosevelt, maintain it on a personal level? Finally, what was the trickle down effect on the war's generals?

Essay Topic 2

Germany controlled Vichy France through a combination of politics and threat of force. In what way did this control work in the German interest for the first part of the War in Africa? Especially discuss how it relates to Admiral Darlan, Admiral Derrien and Vice Admiral Esteva, and the resistance they gave to American efforts to reach a cease fire.

Essay Topic 3

Luck in battle is a common theme in the book. In the Naval battle for Casablanca can you describe the instances of luck for the French and then the American's that threads through this part of the conflict?

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