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

2. What major advantage did tanks have over artillery?
(a) They required less support.
(b) They could deliver firepower to specific targets.
(c) They had more firepower.
(d) They were easier to hide.

3. What was the first nation that Guderian's forces invaded in the "Breakthrough to the Channel"?
(a) The Netherlands.
(b) Belgium.
(c) France.
(d) Luxemburg.

4. What was Germany's next target after Czeckoslovakia?
(a) France.
(b) Belorus.
(c) Poland.
(d) Norway.

5. What nation used tanks in WWI?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) Austria.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Russian city did the German Army General Staff still hope that Guderian could take as late as November of 1941?

2. During the fighting around Smolensk, Von Kluge threatened to court-martial Guderian and what other German leader?

3. What does Guderian thank Hitler for after the incorporation of the Sudetenmand into Germany?

4. What company worked hard to produce huge and unusual tank designs?

5. What resource in Czechoslovakia proved to be somewhat useful for Germany?

Short Essay Questions

1. In 1933, how did the various leaders of the German military feel about tanks?

2. Why did Hitler forbid ground units to attack the routed English army at Dunkirk?

3. When and by whom were tanks first introduced?

4. What happened in Linz during the German march on Austria?

5. Describe the Schlieffen Plan for the invasion of France.

6. What factors made tank production and maintenance more difficult in 1942?

7. What argument did Guderian have with the German high command about how to prevent the Russians from forming a defensive line?

8. What was the impact of the T34 tank on the German military?

9. What was the reaction in the Sudetenland when German motorized troops arrived?

10. Describe the plan advocated by Field Marshall Manstein for the invasion of France.

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