Milestones: Current affairs Test

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Stalin carved up the country.

4. Rumania and Hungary joined in the attack.

5. Germany offered easy terms for surrender.

26. Taking advantage of war fears, Russia now turned to reasserting authority over her former territories in:

1. Lithuania, Latvia, Esthonia, Finland.

2. Bessarabia, Vilna, Finland, and the Ukraine.

3. Rumania, Lithuania, Slovakia, Finland.

4. Finland, Harolia, Bulgaria, Latvia.

5. Vilna, Finland, Lithuania, the Crimea.

27. Russia's principal demands, which the Finns refused to grant, were for:

1. A share in the Petsamo oil deposits.

2. A naval base in Finland, a couple of islands, and revision of the Karelian frontier.

3. Salla, Turku, Viborg, and the Aaland Islands.

4. A narrow strip of land across northern Finland to connect Russia with Sweden.

5. Access to the Gulf of Finland.

28. The war started without warning when the Russians bombed the Finnish capital:

1. Warsaw. 3. Helsinki.

2. Moscow.

3. Helsinki.

4. Petsamo

5. Laatokka.

29. Within six weeks, the Finnish war had upset the European balance of power again by:

1. Revealing the military inefficiency of Russia.

2. Lining up Sweden and Norway actively on the side of England and France.

3. Making Japan sign a mutual assistance treaty with Russia.

4. Causing the Baltic states to renounce their non-aggression pacts with the Soviets.

5. Turning Germany against Russia, its former ally.

30. First material assistance given the Finns in the early days of the war with Russia were the eighty bombers, sent by:

1. Sweden.

2. Italy.

3. The U. S.

4. France.

5. Rumania.

31. Meanwhile Britain and France waged war against Germany, and Britain hastily reorganized her Government to include two important new members:

1. Ramsay MacDonald and Neville Chamberlain.

2. The Duke of Windsor and Stanley Baldwin.

3. Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden.

4. Malcolm MacDonald and Winston Churchill.

5. Ambassador Kennedy and Anthony Eden.

32. First startling split in England's War Cabinet came in December with the dramatic resignation of:

1. Secretary of State for War Leslie Hore-Belisha.

2. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound.

3. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.

4. Foreign Minister Viscount Halifax.

5. Secretary for the Dominions Sir Anthony Eden.

33. To strengthen their diplomatic front Britain and France signed a pact with Turkey, the terms of which specifically exempted Turkey from:

1. Fighting any but a naval war.

2. Entering a war already under way when the pact was signed.

3. Warring against Russia.

4. Fighting outside the Balkans and Near East.

5. Warring against Italy.

34. Early in February world attention was turned to Asia-Minor by:

1. A challenge hurled at the army in the Japanese Diet.

2. Viscount Gort's good-will flight in Ankara.

3. Large concentrations of Allied Troops in Egypt and Syria.

4. A lightning drive by Russia to seize Bessarabia.

5. A book on Iran called "The 40 Days of Musa Dagh."

35. To present the most powerful front possible against Germany, Britain and France have done

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