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For three years armies fought back and forth along the coast of North Africa, with the Suez Canal as the prize. At El Alamein in 1942 the British Eighth Army stopped Rommel, and American landings trapped the Axis in Tunisia. Students follow the desert war on the map.
Al terminar la lección, los alumnos podrán
- Explain why North Africa and the Suez Canal mattered in the Second World War.
- Locate Tobruk, El Alamein and the Torch landings on the map.
- Explain why El Alamein and the Allied victory in Tunisia changed the course of the war.