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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12- The Final Collapse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did General von Kleist order, causing Guderian to threaten to resign?
(a) Guderian must halt his advance.
(b) Guderian must use tanks only in a support role.
(c) Guderian must retreat.
(d) Guderian must give up his command.

2. What military units were crucial in breaking through the northern part of the Maginot Line?
(a) Heavy tanks.
(b) Sappers.
(c) Motorized infantry.
(d) Dive-bombers.

3. About how many German soldiers were lost when Army Group Center was encircled on the Eastern front?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 50,000.

4. What happened to Guderian when the OKH was bombed?
(a) He lost his hearing.
(b) His wife was killed.
(c) He lost his leg.
(d) He barely escaped injury.

5. What was the Luftwaffe?
(a) The German Air Force.
(b) The doctrine of penetrating attacks.
(c) The term for German armored units.
(d) German paratroopers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new commander of Army Group Vistula was ordered to relieve a surrounded fortress?

2. How are the fortresses at Belfort reduced and captured?

3. Why was Guderian unable to press his attack into Dunkirk?

4. What was the first nation that Guderian's forces invaded in the "Breakthrough to the Channel"?

5. Who did Guderian demand that Hitler replace?

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