President Roosevelt's Promise to the Soviets to Open a Second

question 18

Multiple Choice

President Roosevelt's promise to the Soviets to open a second front in Western Europe by the end of 1942

• A) was fulfilled by the invasion of North Africa.
• B) was made to deceive Stalin and encourage him to slow his army's movement into Eastern Europe.
• C) was strongly supported by Churchill and British military leaders.
• D) proved utterly impossible to keep.
• E) represented the key goal to which all early American military efforts were directed.

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