(5 of 10)
1. Abandoned all tariffs against each other's products.
2. Pooled their monetary resources for the duration of the war.
3. Brought their armed forces under a common command.
4. Scheduled a series of conferences on labor problems of the two countries.
5. Agreed to cooperate in obtaining munitions and raw materials.
26. In World War I, the French lost nearly 700,000 men to defend Verdun. In the first five months of World War II the list of French dead was:
1. 500,000. 3. 200,000.
2. 65,000.
3. 200,000.
4. 100,000.
5. Less than 15,000.
37. Siegfried and Maginot are German and French:
1. Army leaders.
2. Front-line villages.
3. Super-battleships.
4. Cheap, mass-produced fighting planes.
5. Fortifications on the Western Front.
38. Most destructive weapon used against Britain by Germany in the first four months of the war was the:
1. Blockade.
2. Bombing plane.
3. Battleship.
4. "Mosquito fleet."
5. Mine.
39. Greatest change in London family life brought about by World War II is the:
1. Conscription of all youths seventeen and over.
2. Compulsory war work outlined for women.
3. Closing of all movie theatres.
4. Sharp decline in marriages.
5. Evacuation of thousands of children to country.
40. A hero of World War II is Gunther Prien who:
1. Brought a Polish submarine safely through the German blockade to join British forces.
2. Led the British air squadron which destroyed the Nazi base at Helgoland.
3. Captained the Admiral Graf Spee.
4. Commanded the submarine which sank the British warship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow.
5. Leads guerrilla troops still fighting in Poland.
41. In the first five months of the war, England and France seemed to place their main hope of victory in:
1. Getting Italy to come in on their side.
2. A plan to invade Germany through Holland.
3. The likelihood that Stalin would turn and attack Germany.
4. Their great superiority in the air.
5. The blockade to starve Germany out.
42. Germany's famed pocket battleship, Admiral Graf Spec: 1. Was sunk by British bombers in the Skagerrak.
2. Was outfought and defeated by three small British warships.
3. Sank the British aircraft carrier Courageous.
4. Proved she could defeat any Allied warship that could catch her.
5. Ran a gauntlet of Allied warships from Murmansk to Hamburg.
43. As a "measure of justified reprisal against Germany's war methods," Great Britain announced late in Novem ber that:
1. All German exports would be seized.
2. Neutral nations on the Baltic would soon be asked to admit "protective" British and French forces.
3. German prisoners would be forced to ride on Brit ish warships.
4. German U-boats would be sunk without warning.
FOREIGN NEWS
56. Late in December an earthquake caused the death of more than 20,000 people in:
1. Japan. 3. Italy. 5. Turkey.
2. California.
3. Italy.
4. Lisbon.
5. Turkey
57. Rumanian Iron Guardists (Nazis) were publicly executed in the streets of Bucharest after they:
1.