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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. Who stepped in to restore order as majors and independents feuded in the United States?
(a) California Oil Association (COA)
(b) United States Automobile Association (USAA)
(c) Texas Railroad Commission (TRC)
(d) North American Oil Commission (NAOC)

2. Who used radio to mobilize Arab nationalism and stir up the whole Third World?
(a) Saddam Hussein
(b) King Farouk
(c) Ali Razmara
(d) Gamal Abedel Nasser

3. Early in 1942, Hitler developed which plan, aimed at the Caucasus and beyond, to the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, and onward to India?
(a) Operation Soviet
(b) Operation Volkswagon
(c) Operation Bleu
(d) Operation Caucasus

4. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?
(a) Persian
(b) Sumatran
(c) Canadian
(d) South African

5. Who masterminded strikes against the Rothschilds' interests in Russia?
(a) John D. Rockefeller
(b) Immanuel Nobel
(c) Marcus Samuel
(d) Joseph Stalin

Short Answer Questions

1. Britain and France joined with what country to plan an attack on Egypt?

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

3. Which German commander was stopped due to a lack of petrol in North Africa?

4. The U.S. established what to contain the Soviets and deal with British financial issues after WWII?

5. In 1901, the Shah gave D'Arcy access to how much of the country?

(see the answer key)

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