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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Hitler at His Peak.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the state of strategic thinking about the use of tanks in the German high command as of 1938?
(a) There was complete agreement about their use.
(b) There was still disagreement about their use.
(c) They were not accepted as effective weapons.
(d) They had become the center of the German military.

2. Guderian became an instructor on what subjects?
(a) Land doctrine and air support.
(b) Command, intelligence, and control.
(c) Supply and logistics.
(d) Military history and mobile warfare.

3. The Sudetenland was located within what nation?
(a) Czeckoslovakia.
(b) Luxemburg.
(c) Poland.
(d) Austria.

4. Where did Guderian see and drive his first tank?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Austria.
(c) Sweden.
(d) England.

5. Panzer divisions did NOT include which of the following?
(a) Motorized infantry.
(b) Anti-tank weapons.
(c) Mobile anti-air vehicles.
(d) Tanks.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Heinz Guderian born?

2. What major life change did Guderian make before WWI?

3. What happened to von Fritsch, Blomberg, and Lutz at about the same time Guderian was promoted in 1938?

4. Why did Hitler feel it was reasonable to occupy the Sudetenland?

5. After the occupation of the Sudetenland, tension with which major nation grew?

(see the answer key)

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