Matching Pairs World War II Jigsaw BattlesOnline version Matching the battles with information relating to its "Strategies and Battle tactics", and "Outcome and Significance" by Kathryn Yuchuck 1 Battles with Japan 2 Battle of the Atlantic 3 North African Front 4 Iwo Jima 5 D-Day 6 Battle of Midway 7 Battle of Stalingrad 8 Battle of Okinawa 9 Battle of the Bulge 10 Italian Campaign -German attempt to break and split American and British forces to cut off supply lines (creating a "Bulge") -Major German loss of troops and military supplies -Britain and United States fighting Germany in "Operation Torch" -Led by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower -Ended with the surrender of Afrika Corps. -German U-Boat attack on Allied supply ships -Allies use sonar to locate and destroy German U-Boats -Allies use convoy system for protection -Allied attack on German-occupied France (Normandy) in order to liberate Paris and then France -Largest land-sea-air operation in army history -Air and sea bombardment by the Allies on the Germans American torpedo planes and dive bombers attack Japanese forces U.S. against Japan; kamikaze attacks Japanese troops entrenched in tunnels and caves -Capture of Sicily in 1943 -War front where the Tuskegee Airmen fought -Campaign during which Benito Mussolini was forced to resign -Allied failed effort to free Italy -Germans fighting Soviets -Soviet victory due to: 1. brutal weather 2. Massive Soviet counterattack 3. Hitler's refusal to order German retreat >4 week battle between Japanese and American Marines in Japan -Allies strategy: Island Hopping
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