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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was key to Hitler's aggression toward Russia?
(a) Baku oil
(b) Wanting to defeat Stalin
(c) Synthetic oils
(d) Russia's alliance with the United States

2. By 1950, what was the primary fuel source in America?
(a) Oil
(b) Coal
(c) Electricity
(d) Synthetic fuel

3. In 1944, the Allies targeted what with bombings in Germany?
(a) German submarines
(b) Synthetic fuel plants
(c) Concentration camps
(d) Tank factories

4. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 did what?
(a) Gave Poland to Russia
(b) Resumed Russian oil shipments to Germany
(c) Created an alliance aganist Britain
(d) Ended the Prussian War

5. Early in 1942, Hitler developed which plan, aimed at the Caucasus and beyond, to the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, and onward to India?
(a) Operation Volkswagon
(b) Operation Soviet
(c) Operation Bleu
(d) Operation Caucasus

Short Answer Questions

1. Who masterminded strikes against the Rothschilds' interests in Russia?

2. In 1901, the Shah gave D'Arcy access to how much of the country?

3. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?

4. What did England sign in 1907 to foil German penetration into the Middle East?

5. What cut the travel time between England and India in half?

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