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Question 1: He escaped, though, to ________, where he took command of the French Army B.
AlgiersTunisCairoAfrica

Question 2: In Germany, his army, now numbering 300,000 soldiers took Karlsruhe, Ulm and Stuttgart before crossing the Danube and arriving in ________.
HungaryAustriaPolandCzech Republic

Question 3: De Lattre represented France at the German unconditional surrender in ________ on May 8, 1945.
StockholmBerlinLondonTallinn

Question 4: He specialized in ________, and was made head of the French War College in 1935.
KambojasCavalryCataphractAśvakas

Question 5: He remained on active duty, commanding Vichy French forces in ________ in 1941.
MoroccoTunisiaSyriaEgypt

Question 6: Born at Mouilleron-en-Pareds (Vendée), he graduated from school in 1911 (5th of his promotion in Saint-Cyr), fought in ________ and was wounded twice.
World War IWestern Front (World War I)Caucasus CampaignArmenian Genocide

Question 7: In 1951, illness forced de Lattre de Tassigny to return to ________ where he later died of cancer; he was posthumously made Maréchal de France.
VersaillesParisMarseilleÉvry, Essonne

Question 8: He won a minor battle in Rethel where a German officer said that the French resistance was similar as in the ________.
Battle of PasschendaeleWestern Front (World War I)Battle of VerdunBattle of the Frontiers

Question 9: Under General ________'s encouragement those French Resistance members who wished to continue fighting were incorporated into the French First Army by General de Lattre.
Charles de GaulleHarry S. TrumanFrançois MitterrandGeorge Marshall

Question 10: De Lattre then landed in ________, southern France on August 16, 1944, and his troops began marching through France liberating the country as they went.
ProvenceAlsaceAvignonMarseille
















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