HIST 338 Lecture 2: 1316625308249
10 Jan 2018
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On november 7, 1942, on his way to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the abortive beer. Hall putsch, hitler was shocked to learn that allied fleets were entering the strait of gibraltar. He ordered his staff to anticipate the fleet"s direction, and due to allied double-cross misinformation, they mistakenly told hitler that the fleet was headed for malta. When the allied fleet arrived in north africa on november 8, 1942 there were no. German troops rushing southward to confront them and the german air force was too far east to be of any threat the germans were caught completely by surprise. Churchill and roosevelt had planned this joint us-british invasion of north africa during the arcadia conference in. Washington between december 22, 1941 and january 14, 1942. Despite pressure by stalin to open a second front in the european continent, roosevelt convinced churchill that neither of their forces was prepared for such an attack.
