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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. Speer's success with Goebbels and Hitler has its ups and downs until when?

2. Hitler is self-controlled but stages what for effect?

3. When was Albert Speer born?

4. Whose assistant does Speer become?

5. Hitler turns to building the autobahn and making Berlin surpass Paris and Vienna in beauty. Hitler specifies an avenue how many yards wide terminated at one end by a great domed meeting hall dwarfing St. Peter's in Rome and at the other by an arch of triumph dwarfing Paris?

Short Essay Questions

1. With whom does Hitler surround himself? How does he act around these people?

2. How do Speer's ideas clash with Hitler's and the ideas of others?

3. What does Speer do with 130 searchlights?

4. Describe Speer's life while being a member of Hitler's entourage.

5. Describe Speer's Nuremberg building. How does this reflect Hitler's belief about the importance of architecture?

6. Describe Adolf Hitler Platz.

7. Describe the beginning of Speer's time as head of the Armaments Ministry.

8. What happens in June of 1942?

9. How does Speer come to run the Armaments Ministry?

10. What poor military decisions does Hitler make after the Allied invasion of North Africa?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A "Committee of Three" is formed to insulate Hitler from others.

Part 1) What is the "Committee of Three?" Who makes up this committee? Why? Why do Hitler's men believe this committee is necessary? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Part 2) How does this committee influence Hitler? How does this committee influence and benefit Speer?

Part 3) How does the formation of this committee foreshadow Hitler's downfall?

Essay Topic 2

Hitler is stuck in a World War I mentality.

Part 1) What is a World War I mentality? Why is Hitler stuck in this mentality?

Part 2) What does this mean for Speer, Speer's plans, and Hitler's own plans? How does this mentality reflect Hitler's personality?

Part 3) How does Hitler's war mentality evolve over time? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Speer runs the Armaments Ministry.

Part 1) What is the Armaments Ministry? How does he get this job? How does the Armaments Ministry benefit from Speer?

Part 2) How does Speer use his talents as an architect to be successful running the Armaments Ministry?

Part 3) How do Hitler and his men feel about the way Speer runs the Armaments Ministry? How does this affect Speer?

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