10 questions
How many total miles long was the 'Atlantic Wall'?
80
800
20
2000
How many total soldiers were to man the Atlantic Wall?
300
3,000
30,000
300,000
The Atlantic Wall was to run from the Franco Spanish border all the way to ____________________.
France
Norway
Germany
Austria
Approximately how many tons of steel went into building the Atlantic Wall?
1.2 million
20,000
17 million
3.7 billion
The designer and director of construction for the Atlantic Wall also built the ___________________, Germanys system of highways.
The German State Parkway
The New German Turnpike
The Autobahn
The Riviera Byway
The problem of ____________________ for the Atlantic Wall would become a serious problem for the Axis powers during the war.
supplying food
supplying ammunition for the artillery
providing canons
finding enough troops
How many underwater mines did the Germans lay along the Atlantic Wall?
5,000
50,000
500,000
5,000,000
Ironically, the German commander at the Atlantic Wall was the same commander that famously defeated the enormous French fortification called ___________________.
The Ardennes Line
The Bastille Day Fortress
The Omaha Beach Line
The Maginot Line
Despite the enormity of the defenses, Erwin Rommel was proven right when _______________________.
the British were easily able to avoid the Wall and invade through Denmark
the Allies breached the wall in a matter of hours on June 6, 1944
the Allied forces simply parachuted over the defenses
the lack of ammunition rendered the defenses useless
Many of the fortifications along the Atlantic Wall
were destroyed immediately after the war
still stand today
are tourists sites visited by thousands every year
all of the above