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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Eisenhower feel about the attack on Egypt?
(a) Resigned and depressed
(b) Indifferent
(c) Cautiously happy
(d) Surprised and angry

2. Who used radio to mobilize Arab nationalism and stir up the whole Third World?
(a) Ali Razmara
(b) Gamal Abedel Nasser
(c) Saddam Hussein
(d) King Farouk

3. By 1950, what was the primary fuel source in America?
(a) Coal
(b) Electricity
(c) Oil
(d) Synthetic fuel

4. Early in 1942, Hitler developed which plan, aimed at the Caucasus and beyond, to the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, and onward to India?
(a) Operation Volkswagon
(b) Operation Caucasus
(c) Operation Bleu
(d) Operation Soviet

5. Britain and France joined with what country to plan an attack on Egypt?
(a) Japan
(b) Israel
(c) Germany
(d) The United States

Short Answer Questions

1. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?

2. "Dad" Joiner found oil in a Texas field that came to be known as what?

3. Which state was proclaimed in the Middle East that led to increasing tensions and conflicts in the region?

4. What cut the travel time between England and India in half?

5. A Bolshevik newspaper spoke of oil as what?

(see the answer key)

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