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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Japan's original war plan was that how much oil would be sufficient for victory?
(a) 1 month's worth
(b) 2 years' worth
(c) 9 week's worth
(d) 5 years' worth

2. A Bolshevik newspaper spoke of oil as what?
(a) Oily Funds
(b) Quick Cash
(c) Liquid Gold
(d) Black Money

3. In 1944, the Allies targeted what with bombings in Germany?
(a) Tank factories
(b) German submarines
(c) Concentration camps
(d) Synthetic fuel plants

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

5. 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 Caucasus
(b) Operation Soviet
(c) Operation Bleu
(d) Operation Volkswagon

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early 1930s, the United States provided how much of Japan's oil imports?

2. Which country did the United States begin transshipping to in 1940?

3. What was banned in 1943 in the U.S.?

4. Stalin wanted oil from which country to supplement Soviet production?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Japan's interest in the East Indies? What plans were developed around the East Indies?

2. What are rents? How does this apply to oil?

3. Describe the beginning of the oil industry in Mexico. Why did Mexico cease to be a large oil producer?

4. What happened to oil and gas consumption and demand in the United States after the war? What effects did this have?

5. What plans did Adolf Hitler have that depended on oil? What helped him in his projects to get away from Western oil?

6. What was one of most extraordinary engineering feats of WWII? Why was this done?

7. What tensions existed between the United States and Britain after the war? Why?

8. In what parts of the world did oil drilling and production take place? Where were some of the challenges that oil companies faced in these regions and countries?

9. How was Standard Oil formed? Who was involved in this venture?

10. Describe the exploration for oil that took place as Pennsylvania became depleted? Where was oil found?

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