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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. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?
(a) Mexico
(b) Brazil
(c) Chile
(d) Panama
2. Who favored favored domestic spending over war preparations against Germany in 1911?
(a) Nicholas II
(b) Woodrow Wilson
(c) Nelson Mandela
(d) Winston Churchill
3. Japan believed that what was the biggest liability for Germans in WWI, leading to their defeat?
(a) Tanks
(b) Money
(c) Cultural beliefs
(d) Petroleum
4. What overcame Ibn Saud's reticence to allow infidel money into his kingdom?
(a) His desire to expand into Egypt
(b) Security worries
(c) Churchill's influence
(d) Financial problems
5. U.S. oil production rose how much between 1940 and 1945?
(a) 90%
(b) 58%
(c) 4%
(d) 30%
Short Answer Questions
1. What "taboo" did Venezuela break in the 1940s?
2. Who did FDR meet with at the Suez Canal Zone after Yalta?
3. Which other country provided oil for Japan in the early 1930s?
4. Who masterminded strikes against the Rothschilds' interests in Russia?
5. In October 1940, who bombed Dhahran?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the war years called? Why are they called this?
2. Describe the beginning of the oil industry in Mexico. Why did Mexico cease to be a large oil producer?
3. What event in 1947 in the Gulf of Mexico led to questions? What issues arose from this? What other products did the United States become interested in?
4. What happened to oil and gas consumption and demand in the United States after the war? What effects did this have?
5. What was one of most extraordinary engineering feats of WWII? Why was this done?
6. What plans did Adolf Hitler have that depended on oil? What helped him in his projects to get away from Western oil?
7. What invention threatened Standard's profits? What product did Standard begin focusing on? Was this strategy successful?
8. What was the Japanese war plan based on? Did these premises come true?
9. Into what areas did Standard Oil expand? What was its place in oil production?
10. What tensions existed between the United States and Britain after the war? Why?
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