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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. In Chapter 22, what did Russians want Patton to return to them?

2. How old was Churchill in 1945?

3. In Chapter 15, how many women did Russian soldiers rape during the war?

4. At the end of Chapter 23, how many American POWs did Patton believe remained in Russian hands?

5. In 1945, what German city was considered the least Nazi of all cities in Germany?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Stalin learn about Roosevelt's death, and how did he react?

2. What happened to Hitler and Braun's bodies?

3. Why were Patton and American soldiers frustrated when Montgomery took credit for the Allied victory at the Battle of the Bulge?

4. How was Hitler's 56th birthday celebrated in Chapter 21?

5. Why did many Auschwitz survivors find no shelter in their hometowns when they returned?

6. At the end of Chapter 20, what happened when Patton's single-engine L-5 Sentinel was flying to Patton's headquarters?

7. At the end of Chapter 23, what did Patton know about a top-secret policy instituted by General George Marshall?

8. What experiments were performed by Dr. Josef Mengele?

9. How did Donovan take the news that Roosevelt died?

10. In Chapter 13, how and why was Harry S. Truman chosen to be Roosevelt's vice president?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Truman and Patton were complete opposites. Why did Truman dislike Patton? How did the differences between the men foster the dislike that Truman felt for Patton? Were Truman’s feelings based upon a relationship with Patton or bias? How did the differences between the two men influence that way that Truman felt about Patton?

Essay Topic 2

Many American were murdered during the Malmedy Massacre. How were soldiers supposed to be treated who surrendered? Did the men at Malmedy surrender? According to the rules of war how should the prisoners have been treated? Why did the Germans not follow the typical rules of war?

Essay Topic 3

The Germans were very inhumane to the Jews and others. What groups of people suffered at the hands of the Germans? How was the treatment they received inhumane? How did the way that the Germans viewed the Jews and others as less than human contribute to the way they treated the Jews and other people groups?

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