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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What successful operation tempted Roosevelt to make one of his few overseas journeys of the war?
(a) Operation Overlord.
(b) Operation Torch.
(c) Operation Cockade.
(d) Operation Jericho.

2. Why did Britain hesitate to spend money on defense in the 1930s?
(a) Fear of calling attention to themselves.
(b) Fear of upsetting economic progress.
(c) Fear of retalliation from Italy.
(d) Fear of antagonizing Hitler.

3. What did Churchill demand to double two times over?
(a) Military spending.
(b) Army reserves.
(c) Parliamentary salary.
(d) Air Staff.

4. What happened to Churchill during the general election of 1945?
(a) He was not elected.
(b) He had a resounding re-election.
(c) He lost his Clementine.
(d) He lost his battle to cancer.

5. What did Hitler name the German Air Force?
(a) Unternehmen.
(b) Deutschen.
(c) Luftwaffe.
(d) Allerdings.

6. What was Hitler's most menacing rearmament measure?
(a) Reintroduction of conscription.
(b) Creation of an air force.
(c) Introduction of nuclear tactics.
(d) Creation of the U-boats.

7. What did the German submarine commanders call the sinking of hundreds of merchant ships off the east coast of the U.S.?
(a) Happy Time.
(b) A German Victory.
(c) Vichy.
(d) Communistic Force.

8. What leader was afraid of flying?
(a) Churchill.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Roosevelt.

9. Whom promoted the idea of French resistance?
(a) Jean-Baptiste Cervoni.
(b) Louis André Bon.
(c) Jean Joseph Guieu.
(d) Charles de Gaulle.

10. What other country besides Britain was aligned with Poland?
(a) Russia.
(b) United States.
(c) Italy.
(d) France.

11. What does IRA stand for?
(a) Irish Republican Army.
(b) Inter Radical Army.
(c) Irish Rearmament Action.
(d) Internal Relations Movement.

12. Who was President of the United States of America during WWII?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Roosevelt.
(c) Taft.
(d) Eisenhower.

13. Which two countries refused to send help during the Turkish advance?
(a) America and France.
(b) Britain and Belgium.
(c) Australia and Canada.
(d) Italy and Russia.

14. What was Churchill's reputation in politics regarding work and welfare?
(a) Champion of work and welfare.
(b) Pro-work and welfare.
(c) Indifference toward work and welfare.
(d) Anti-work and welfare.

15. What was Clementine's only true interest?
(a) Churchill.
(b) Fame.
(c) Her children.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Conventional conservatives regarded Churchill as:

2. What was the "Battle of Britain"?

3. Churchill was seen by the regular man and woman in the street as a:

4. What was Hitler identified as?

5. What was Hitler's political manifesto called?

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