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What is July 1943
Allies plan attacks on ports of straight of Messia to confuse axis powers.
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What is Albert Kesselring ?
The German military commander in Italy during WW2.
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What is the Allied invasion of Italy's order of battle?
A phase of the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, Allied naval forces landed American and Commonwealth troops on the beaches of southern Italy where they faced resistance from Axis forces.
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What is Italy ?
Which country declared war on Britain on 10th June 1940 in support of Germany only to declare war on Germany in September 1943?
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What is September 1943
An uprise against Germany allowed the arrival of the allies later.
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What is Benito Mussolini ?
An Italian political leader who became the fascist dictator of Italy from 1925 to 1945.
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What is Battle of Ancona?
A battle involving forces from Poland serving as part of the British Army against German forces.
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What is Salerno?
Where did the Allies carry out their first major beach landings of the war which was on the Italian mainland?
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What is February 1944
The allies bomb the abbey of Monte Cassino thinking the Germans were there, but they were not.
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What is General Mark Clark ?
Commanded the United States Fifth Army, and later the 15th Army Group, in the Italian campaign.
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What is Battle of Anzio?
Intended as a daring outflanking move that would open up the way to the capture of Rome
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What is Sicily ?
Operation Husky in July1943 was the invasion of which Mediterranean island?
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What is May 1944
German Gustav Line is broken after the battle of Monte Cassino.
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What is Lieutenant General George S. Patton?
A general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II.
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What is The Battle of Monte Cassino?
Effectively blocked the Allies route north to Rome and had to be taken despite the difficulties of doing so from a military point of view.
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What is Gothic Line?
What is the name of Germany’s final defensive position in Italy during WW2?
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What is September 1944
In the Gothic Line, a defense is breached.
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What is General Bernard Montgomery?
One of the most prominent and successful British commanders of the Second World War (1939-45).
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What is Operation Achse?
Was the codename for the German operation to forcibly disarm the Italian armed forces after Italy's armistice with the Allies
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What is Salo on Lake Garda ?
After Italy surrendered to the allies, where was Mussolini’s German puppet state, The Italian Social Republic based?
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