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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was key to Hitler's aggression toward Russia?
(a) Russia's alliance with the United States
(b) Baku oil
(c) Wanting to defeat Stalin
(d) Synthetic oils

2. Japan believed that what was the biggest liability for Germans in WWI, leading to their defeat?
(a) Cultural beliefs
(b) Tanks
(c) Money
(d) Petroleum

3. Who published a book on the history of Standard Oil Company?
(a) Anna Burton
(b) Sarah Roosevelt
(c) Grace von Darnell
(d) Ida Tarbell

4. Who favored favored domestic spending over war preparations against Germany in 1911?
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Nicholas II
(c) Woodrow Wilson
(d) Winston Churchill

5. In August 1928, Deterding met where with Heinrich Riedemann of Jersey Standard-Germany, Cadman of APOC, William Mellon of Gulf, Robert Stewart of Indiana and others to discuss the oil industry?
(a) Scotland
(b) Paris
(c) Nepal
(d) Moscow

Short Answer Questions

1. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 did what?

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

3. Who stepped in to restore order as majors and independents feuded in the United States?

4. "Dad" Joiner found oil in a Texas field that came to be known as what?

5. Who set up the Eastern and General Syndicate to develop business opportunities in the Middle East?

(see the answer key)

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