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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hitler use to make decisions?

2. What were the Russians considering?

3. Who did the British and Americans want to get out of Denmark?

4. What did Churchill learn when he and Roosevelt met on June 17?

5. With whom did Stevenson battle about U.S. companies and their foreign subsidiaries doing business with the Nazis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the sinking of the Bismarck a few days later.

2. Who was Niels Bohr and why are the British interested in him?

3. How were some large corporations in the United States helping the Nazi efforts at world domination?

4. What was the American involvement in the war at this point (May, 1941)?

5. Discuss operation TORCH.

6. What did the Russians want of the allies and what are the Russians considering?

7. What did J. Edgar Hoover get angry and how does Stevenson try to appease the man?

8. Describe the problems that were occurring in the British and American intelligence communities after TORCH.

9. How did the Germans retaliate for the death of Heydrich and what was the result of the Germans' actions?

10. Who did Bohr send out of Denmark with his notes and what happened?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Reinhard Heydrich hosts a party at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel trying to persuade prominent Americans to not supply England. The opportunities for trade with the new German empire would be enormous. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze the involvement of American businesses and Germany prior to America's officially declaring war on Germany.

2. How do you think American businesses justified doing business with Germany? Do you think greed was involved? When does "good business sense" become greed?

3. Are American businesses legally allowed today to engage in commerce with a nation with whom the United States is involved in a declared war? How about an armed conflict? Is it fair for the government to regulate something like that? Why or why not? (Some of this may require some research).

Essay Topic 2

Plans for the assassination of Heydrich began in August 1941, even through they didn't carry out the plot until after Pearl Harbor. As Heydrich lay in a hospital dying, the Germans began a series of retributions by killing one hundred Czechs every evening. More killings followed as houses were searched. The people were killed in the village where the assassins had landed. The village of Lidice was burned to the ground. Discuss the following:

1. Is the act of assassination honorable? Justifiable? Should governments such as the United States condone and assist in assassinations? What about the idea of a fair trial? Does an assassination take that idea into account? Should it?

2. Do you think the BSC and OSS would have carried out the assassination of Heydrich had they known of the probable consequences? Why or why not? Was the assassination of one man worth the death of hundreds more?

3. Thoroughly discuss Henrich Heydrich and his role in the Nazi war machine and atrocities carried out by the Nazis.

Essay Topic 3

King George V makes it clear he will not leave England if the Germans invade and will not collaborate with any German puppet government. Discuss the following:

1. Do you think King George's actions are admirable? Why or why not?

2. Research the monarchs of several other European countries and compare/contrast the actions of three other countries to that of King George in response to the threats from the Germans.

3. How do you think you would have responded as a King/Queen were Hitler to invade your country? Explain fully.

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