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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Russians do on December 1, 1939?
(a) Attacked China.
(b) Attacked Denmark.
(c) Invaded Finland.
(d) Attacked Germany.

2. Who returned to Berlin in August 1939?
(a) Shirer.
(b) Shirer's wife.
(c) Murrow and other correspondents.
(d) Hitler.

3. How did William Shirer go to America in June 1939?
(a) By boat.
(b) By zepplin.
(c) By plane.
(d) By train.

4. What was stationed at Kiel and Hamburg?
(a) The German army.
(b) The Luftwaffe.
(c) The German Fleet.
(d) Prisoners of war camps.

5. What did Shirer find out about the American people upon arrival?
(a) They supported Hitler.
(b) They didn't want to know about Europe.
(c) They hated Stalin.
(d) They did not think that war was coming.

6. Where did Tess Shirer leave for in September 1938?
(a) Austria.
(b) France.
(c) America.
(d) Germany.

7. Who did the German propaganda say threatened the Reich in August 1939?
(a) England.
(b) Poland.
(c) France.
(d) Russia.

8. Where was Shirer in the start of Part I pg.165-206?
(a) Geneva.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Paris.
(d) Prague.

9. Who did Shirer meet in Paris on October 8, 1938?
(a) De Gaulle.
(b) Daladier.
(c) Murrow.
(d) Chamberlin.

10. What percentage of the Austrian voters voted to join the Reich on April 10, 1938?
(a) 99%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 95%.
(d) 90%.

11. Who did Germany take off the air on October 19, 1939?
(a) CNN.
(b) CBS.
(c) NBC and CBS.
(d) ABC.

12. What city did Shirer go to after Danzig?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Prague.
(c) Paris.
(d) Warsaw.

13. Who does Shirer say came to him for help in going to England or America?
(a) Homosexuals.
(b) Communists.
(c) Women.
(d) Jews.

14. What law did Roosevelt ask Congress to repeal after Germany's attack on Poland?
(a) The anti-British law.
(b) The friend of France law.
(c) The neutrality law.
(d) The Germany law.

15. What pact did Hitler use as an excuse to violate a treaty in March 1936?
(a) The Franco-Russian pact.
(b) The Anglo-French pact.
(c) The Franco-Soviet pact.
(d) The Anglo-Polish pact.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Shirer say continued in Germany in Part II, pgs.248-289?

2. Where did the Shirers and Knickerbockers vacation in June 1936?

3. What did Czechoslovakia refuse to do after the British/Germany meeting in September 1938?

4. When did Hitler review his troops in Warsaw?

5. What did Hitler deny after presenting his plan to have Germany self-sufficient in raw materials?

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