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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chap. 7- On Inactive Service; Chap. 8- The Development of the Armed Forces.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the fighting around Smolensk, Von Kluge threatened to court-martial Guderian and what other German leader?
(a) Keigel.
(b) Kleist.
(c) Rommel.
(d) Hoth.

2. What Russian city did the German Army General Staff still hope that Guderian could take as late as November of 1941?
(a) Kiev.
(b) Gorki.
(c) Leningrad.
(d) Moscow.

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

4. Why was Guderian unable to press his attack into Dunkirk?
(a) The English had landed.
(b) The French were well fortified in this area.
(c) Hitler ordered a halt of ground advances in this area.
(d) There was a lack of fuel and supplies.

5. After World War I, the German army was limited to how many men?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Guderian's concept of the "panzer division" had what distinction?

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

3. What type of vehicle was the Tiger?

4. How did the first waves of the 10th Panzer Division cross the Meuse River?

5. What happened to the Austrian army after the successful German march on that nation?

(see the answer key)

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