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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. What was a shadow box?

2. What did Dr. Drude teach his high school students in Hamburg about the Nazis?

3. What two ethnic groups does Charlie Miller believe have a "natural hatred" for each other?

4. What was Battle Fatigue called during World War I?

5. What did Goebler see for the first time when the Americans rescued the German submarine crew?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bill Mauldin believe most infantrymen thought the war should be settled?

2. Why does Jacques Raboud believe it will be difficult for his generation to erase hatred?

3. How did Galatea Berger say the Third Reich was recorded in her school history classes?

4. What does Gobeler think that sailors all over the world have in common?

5. What was George Page's strategy for making money on rentals during the war?

6. Why was Eddie Slovik famous?

7. According to Lowell Steward, what was the status of the black Tuskegee flying squadron?

8. What does Werner Burckhardt believe offers hope for the future of mankind?

9. What does Hans Gobeler believe is the greatest danger to the future of the world?

10. Why did the FBI suspect the cartoonist, Milton Caniff?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Some respondents reported being disillusioned as allies became enemies and enemies changed into allies. In your essay, discuss why these changes took place and why some of those on the ground were disillusioned by those shifts in policy.

Essay Topic 2

There is a lot of discussion of racism, the process of judging individuals by race, in this collection of memories. Write about racist attitudes you read about toward one ethnic group: Jews, blacks, Germans, Russians or Japanese. Explain the factors that led to racist opinions toward people of the group you chose.

Essay Topic 3

Propaganda is implicated as overwhelming the morals and thinking of people on both sides of the war. In your essay, discuss the role of propaganda as delivered through music, movies and other media.

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