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WorksheetsWW2 Revision Quiz 1: 1919-1940 (Chapter 9.1-9.4)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The Treaty of Versailles was ...
signed in 1918
the agreement that ended WW2
regarded by most Germans at the time as very harsh
a short term factor that caused WW2 to break out
Which of the following was NOT a part of the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany was forbidden from having a large army, an air force or submarines
Germany had to accept blame for starting WW1
Germany was required to pay reparations to the Allies for damage caused by WW1
Germany was split into two - East and West Germany
In the 1930s, Germany, Japan and Italy all had governments best described as ...
Democratic
Nationalistic and Militaristic
Socialist
Pacifist and Internationalist
The Great Depression helped Hitler gain power in Germany. The main economic problem at this time in Germany was
High unemployment
Falling wages
Hyperinflation
Low exports
The map shown is Europe in the year ...
1914
1930
1945
1989
The NAZI Party's official name was the ...
National Party of Unity
Nationalist Socialist German Worker's Party
National Front
National United Aryan Party
Anti-semitism is best defined as ...
Hostility towards Communism
Hostility towards Foreigners (non-Germans)
Hostility towards Jews
Hostility towards Militarism
Concentration camps in Nazi Germany before 1939 were...
Industrial 'killing factories' designed to kill and dispose of large numbers of people
Political prisons used to house the internal enemies of the NAZIs
Military bases where Germany's miltary was rearmed and prepared for war
Intense reeducation centres where Hitler Youth were sent for indoctrination
Which of the following is a FALSE fact about Adolf Hitler?
Hitler was originally from Austria, not Germany
Hitler served as a soldier in the Western Front trenches in World War One
Hitler was imprisoned for Treason by the German government in the 1920s
Hitler was never actually elected to Germany's Parliament
What was Britain and France's foreign policy towards Germany in the 1930s called?
Unconditional Surrender
The Truman Doctrine
Appeasement
Gleischaltung
The FIRST thing that Hitler did when in power that violated the Treaty of Versailles was to...
Begin rearming Germany in secret
Reoccupy the Rhineland
Annex Austria (Anschluss)
Invade Poland
This agreement in 1938 was widely seen as a 'sellout' of Czechoslovakia by the British and French governments.
The Prague Protocol
The Munich Agreement
The Treaty of Versailles
The Yalta Conference
'Anschluss' was the forced 1938 merging of which two countries?
The USSR & Finland
Hungary & Austria
Japan & Korea
Germany & Austria
What was 'Blitzkrieg'?
The style of warfare used by Germany when it invaded Poland and later Western Europe
The policy of disinformation that the USSR used to trick Germany
The period of time after the invasion of Poland but before the invasion of France
The codename for the planned invasion of Britain (which never occured)
The 'Phoney War' was...
When Germany & the USSR fought each other 'unofficially' in Spain
When Germany & the USSR fought each other 'unofficially' in Finland
The period of time after Germany conquered Poland but before they invaded France
The period of time when the USA was supporting Britain, but not actually officially at war with Germany
"Operatino Dynamo" was the codename for ...
The evacuation of Britain's armies from France at Dunkirk in 1940
The invasion of France by British, American and Canadian armies in 1944
The air attack on Britain by Germany in 1940
The plan to starve out Germany by submarine blockade between 1939-1945
Which of the following countries was not conquered by Germany in the 1939-1940 period?
France
Poland
Britain
Holland
The Battle of Britain was primarily fought...
In the skies above Britain
In the seas around Britain
On British beaches
Over the radio (propaganda battle)
The Australian 9th Division fought the Germans at the siege of ...
Athens
Paris
Tobruk
Leningrad
The German invasion of the Soviet Union, starting June 1941, was codenamed...
Operation Edelweiss
Operation Stalin
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Unthinkable
