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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. For producing nations, oil was a source of what?
(a) Pride
(b) Inequality
(c) Hardship
(d) Serenity
2. Who masterminded strikes against the Rothschilds' interests in Russia?
(a) Joseph Stalin
(b) Marcus Samuel
(c) Immanuel Nobel
(d) John D. Rockefeller
3. The "horseless carriage" was developed by whom?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell
(b) Henry Ford
(c) Thomas Edison
(d) Orville Wright
4. The U.S. established what to contain the Soviets and deal with British financial issues after WWII?
(a) The Churchill Pact
(b) The Wilson Doctrine
(c) The Marshall Plan
(d) The Roosevelt Doctrine
5. What was key to Hitler's aggression toward Russia?
(a) Baku oil
(b) Synthetic oils
(c) Russia's alliance with the United States
(d) Wanting to defeat Stalin
Short Answer Questions
1. Who favored favored domestic spending over war preparations against Germany in 1911?
2. In December 1941, Japan bombed what target in the U.S.?
3. By 1879, Standard controlled what percentage of U.S. refining capacity, as well as the pipelines, gathering systems, and transportation?
4. In 1944, the Allies targeted what with bombings in Germany?
5. Which of the following was a parent company of Casoc?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are rents? How does this apply to oil?
2. How was Standard Oil formed? Who was involved in this venture?
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. How did the automobile transform American society?
5. What occurred in the oil industry after WWI in the United States? What was the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920?
6. What was the meeting at Achnacarry Castle about? Who was involved? What was the outcome?
7. What tensions existed between the United States and Britain after the war? Why?
8. Why didn't FDR do anything when Japan invaded China? What did he consider?
9. Describe the beginning of the oil industry in Mexico. Why did Mexico cease to be a large oil producer?
10. What are the war years called? Why are they called this?
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