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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1947, the Interior Department started a program to stockpile how many barrels of oil each day?
(a) Eight hundred thousand
(b) Six hundred
(c) Four thousand
(d) Two million

2. How did Eisenhower feel about the attack on Egypt?
(a) Surprised and angry
(b) Resigned and depressed
(c) Indifferent
(d) Cautiously happy

3. "Dad" Joiner found oil in a Texas field that came to be known as what?
(a) The Cash Creator
(b) The Liquid Bank
(c) The Black Giant
(d) The Oil Gusher

4. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?
(a) Chile
(b) Brazil
(c) Mexico
(d) Panama

5. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 did what?
(a) Ended the Prussian War
(b) Created an alliance aganist Britain
(c) Gave Poland to Russia
(d) Resumed Russian oil shipments to Germany

Short Answer Questions

1. Which state was proclaimed in the Middle East that led to increasing tensions and conflicts in the region?

2. What was the greatest "if" in the Middle East after WWII?

3. What did England sign in 1907 to foil German penetration into the Middle East?

4. Who used radio to mobilize Arab nationalism and stir up the whole Third World?

5. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?

(see the answer key)

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