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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. Who replaced Asquith as Prime Minister?
(a) Clement Attlee.
(b) Tony Blair.
(c) Margaret Thatcher.
(d) Lloyd George.

2. What was Hitler's political manifesto called?
(a) Heute Weil.
(b) Mein Steht.
(c) Heute Neue.
(d) Mein Kampf.

3. Who said, "I think we can generally say today that Hitler's dictatorship is gradually breaking down" before the beginning of WWII?
(a) Josef Stalin.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) Clement Attlee.

4. How old was Churchill when his health began to fail?
(a) 72.
(b) 44.
(c) 50.
(d) 68.

5. After Churchill returned from Palestine he was a:
(a) Credible leader.
(b) Conservative supporter.
(c) Converted Communist.
(d) Convinced Zionist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the "Battle of Britain"?

2. What group would not accept the deed Churchill and Collins had created?

3. What successful operation tempted Roosevelt to make one of his few overseas journeys of the war?

4. Whom did Hitler agree to divide Poland with?

5. What did Churchill equate the Labour Party with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Churchill's main acts as Prime Minister, elected for a second time, aimed at?

2. What was Churchill's move that helped turn the tide of the war and beat back Rommel?

3. What prevented Churchill from having more authority to prepare Britain for war against Hitler's rising domination?

4. What countries were first affected by Hitler's call for a "Greater Germany"?

5. How did The United States deal with the fact that Britain was no longer able to use the "cash and carry" method to buy supplies and weapons from the United States?

6. What happened to Churchill's Liberal party?

7. What was credited with reviving Churchill physically and mentally? What was the status of Roosevelt as the end of the war nears?

8. How old was Churchill when he resigned as Prime Minister, and what did he do after his resignation?

9. What was the reaction of politicians at the time when Churchill first began to strongly speak out against Communism?

10. What happened at the Yalta Conference regarding territorial discussions between Britain and Russia?

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