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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Fulton Sheen, who said "We are becoming a warlike nation--that is to say, one endowed to a higher degree with virtues of obedience, sacrifice, and dedication to country"?

2. Who delivered the speech comparing the words Nationalism and Internationalism?

3. What state's governor's lips were "dripping with words of interposition and nullification"?

4. What continent was the topic of Henry Morton Stanley's speech?

5. Eisenhower stated that a common bind existed between a rice grower in Burma and a wheat planter of what U.S. state?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe General Goethals.

2. How did Truman suggest strengthening freedom-loving nations against the dangers of aggression?

3. Describe Henry Watterson's protege.

4. Describe one's private library according to Phelps.

5. Discuss the artificial restrictions placed on the Soviet Government.

6. What did democracy mean to James Bryant Conant?

7. Describe the impatience of the American people in the chapter "International Affairs and the United States".

8. Describe the phrase used by John F. Kennedy to call the people of the U.S. and the world to action.

9. What three elements represented the five members that completed the most important part of a war cabinet?

10. What is the tradition of Irish learning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several speeches in the text focused on military leaders addressing their troops. Compare and contrast Hannibal's "To His Soldiers" and Leon Trotsky's "To the Red Army" speeches.

Essay Topic 2

Edouard Daladier was the Premier of France in 1940. Daladier delivered a speech that suggested that the Nazis' true goal was slavery.

Part 1) Discuss the domination of the Nazis.

Part 2) How did the Nazi propaganda affect the human heart?

Part 3) What did the Nazi leaders do according to Daladier?

Essay Topic 3

Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi movement in Germany. Hitler delivered a speech very critical of the League of Nations.

Part 1) Explain Hitler's reason why Germany left the League of Nations.

Part 2) What were Hitler's overall feelings for the League of Nations?

Part 3) Why was Hitler so critical of the League of Nations?

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