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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. What was the "Battle of Britain"?
2. Who was advocating the making of an armistice with Germany?
3. What country rebelled against the Versailles Treaty?
4. What political cause did Churchill adopt at age 58?
5. After a stroke in 1952, how did Churchill bring himself back to good health?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Churchill recoup his losses in the 1929 stock market crash? What physically happened to him while in this pursuit?
2. What prevented Churchill from having more authority to prepare Britain for war against Hitler's rising domination?
3. What was the reaction of politicians at the time when Churchill first began to strongly speak out against Communism?
4. 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?
5. What was Churchill's stance on Communism?
6. What was Churchill's move that helped turn the tide of the war and beat back Rommel?
7. While in The Big Three, what happened to Churchill's status?
8. What were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his cabinet focusing on improving during this time when Hitler was being appeased in Germany?
9. What happened after Chamberlain was voted out as Prime Minister?
10. What were Churchill's main acts as Prime Minister, elected for a second time, aimed at?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did Churchill feel about communism? How did this view affect Churchill's willingness to work with Stalin during WWII?
Essay Topic 2
Churchill was involved in a terrorist episode with leader Peter the Painter. Discuss what happened with these Russian anarchists in this particular episode. Also discuss what Peter the Painter represented during this time.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how the United States of America was taken from passive participant in WWII to actively fighting in the war. What specifically did the United States do as a passive participant and what spurred them to take an active role in the war?
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