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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chap. 7- On Inactive Service; Chap. 8- The Development of the Armed Forces.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Guderian became an instructor on what subjects?
(a) Command, intelligence, and control.
(b) Military history and mobile warfare.
(c) Supply and logistics.
(d) Land doctrine and air support.

2. Why did Hitler feel it was reasonable to occupy the Sudetenland?
(a) The region was home to failed states.
(b) The current ruler was an internationally unloved dictator.
(c) The occupation would require little violence.
(d) There was a large German population there.

3. What rank did Guderian achieve in 1938?
(a) Lieutenant General.
(b) Field Marshal.
(c) Major General.
(d) General.

4. What did Guderian not like about the post that was offered to him after the occupation of the Sudetenland?
(a) It was a "desk job."
(b) It was a political appointment.
(c) It was militarilly unimportant.
(d) It had insufficient power to improve the panzer armies.

5. What German commander demanded the glory of destroying the English army at Dunkirk?
(a) Goering and the Luftwaffe.
(b) Himmler and the SS.
(c) General von Kliest and his XII Corps.
(d) Rommel and his IX Corps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Guderian see and drive his first tank?

2. At what Russian city did Germany suffer a serious setback in 1943?

3. What disadvantage did the Russians face in their defense of the region around Smolensk?

4. When did the "Breakthrough to the Channel" begin?

5. What major advantage did tanks have over artillery?

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