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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6- The Campaign in Russia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Germany's next target after Czeckoslovakia?
(a) Norway.
(b) Belorus.
(c) Poland.
(d) France.

2. What major advantage did tanks have over artillery?
(a) They required less support.
(b) They could deliver firepower to specific targets.
(c) They had more firepower.
(d) They were easier to hide.

3. Why was Guderian unable to press his attack into Dunkirk?
(a) The French were well fortified in this area.
(b) Hitler ordered a halt of ground advances in this area.
(c) The English had landed.
(d) There was a lack of fuel and supplies.

4. What did Guderian not like about the post that was offered to him after the occupation of the Sudetenland?
(a) It was militarilly unimportant.
(b) It was a political appointment.
(c) It had insufficient power to improve the panzer armies.
(d) It was a "desk job."

5. What happened to von Fritsch, Blomberg, and Lutz at about the same time Guderian was promoted in 1938?
(a) They were demoted.
(b) They were also promoted.
(c) They defected.
(d) They were tried for treason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Guderian's strategic goal in the invasion of Poland?

2. Guderian's role in his new position centered around what?

3. During the fighting around Smolensk, Von Kluge threatened to court-martial Guderian and what other German leader?

4. What was the Luftwaffe?

5. Field Marshal Manstein advocated a strategy that would center on an invasion of Belgium and what other nation?

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