US Military and Naval Strategies in WWII and Cold War Practice Test 2026 - Free Military Strategies Practice Questions and Study Guide

The event tested here is about how the German trap in the Falaise Pocket was finally closed after the breakout from Normandy. The important idea is that the closure wasn’t achieved by a single named operation in isolation, but by the breakout itself followed by the rapid pursuit that sealed off the German forces in the Falaise area. Operation Cobra was the plan and execution that broke through the hedgerow defenses and opened the way for Allied mobility, while the subsequent pursuit squeezed and trapped the retreating Germans, effectively closing the pocket. That combination—the breakout and the pursuit to close the pocket—best describes how the Falaise Pocket was finally sealed. The other options don’t capture both parts: Cobra alone is just the breakout, the broader Battle of Normandy covers the whole campaign, and the Marshall Plan is unrelated to military actions in 1944.