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WorksheetsCauses of World War II (Part 1)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 8mins
The total reparations bill Germany had to pay amounted to how many billions of pounds?
4.4 billion
8.8 billion
6.6 billion
7.3 billion
9.1 billion
One of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson announced towards the end of World War I was:
Austria and Germany are to be reunited
Free navigation at sea for all nations in war and peace
Croatia is to be given access to the sea
Germany is to be banned from possessing submarines
When the German Chancellor heard the demands of the Treaty of Versailles for the first time, he said: "I have heard the victor's passionate demand... the demand is made that we shall acknowledge that we alone are guilty of having caused the war". This clause of the Treaty (Article 231) is often referred to as:
The War Guilt Clause
The Danzig Clause
The Pacifist Clause
The Surrender Clause
Poland was created as a newly independent nation following World War I. In addition, it was to be given a corridor to the sea and a German port city. The German port city was known as:
Gdansk
Dusseldorf
Hamburg
Danzig
The Weimar Constitution was created at the end of World War I. The system gives parties a share of seats in the Reichstag, equivalent to their share of the popular vote. That is, if a party receives 5% of the vote, they should get 5% of the seats in the Reichstag. This system is known as:
Libertarian democracy
Majoritarian democracy
Liberal democracy
Proportional democracy
First-past-the-post democracy
The President of the Weimar Republic was:
Paul von Hindenburg
Hermann Goring
Franz von Papen
Gustav Stresemann
The Great Hyperinflation in Germany peaked in:
1920
1923
1925
1927
A political party associated with the unemployed working class in Weimar Germany was:
The German Nationals
The Centre Party
The NSDAP
The Communists
The Great Depression officially started on:
October 22, 1928
October 29,1929
October 28, 1928
October 30, 1930
The main reason German businesses and factories struggled to maintain profitability in the early part of the Great Depression was because:
They German banks did not have the capital (money) to lend to those companies
The Communists organised a boycott of all businesses, asking they pay a fair wage
Food shortages reached desperate heights, meaning labourers were too hungry and were unable to work
Exports dropped rapidly immediately following Oct 29, 1929
Hitler saw a link between Jewish people and the ideology of
Liberalism
Fascism
Communism
Capitalism
The Nazi Minister of Propaganda from 1929 was:
Ernst Rohm
Heinrich Himmler
Hermann Goring
Joseph Goebbels
This poster from 1928 would most likely be aimed at which group of voters:
Lower middle class voters
Upper middle class voters
Proletarian anarchists
Democratic socialists
Read the following quote from Mein Kampf: “Only an adequate large space on this earth assures a nation freedom of existence.” This quote relates most clearly to the concept of:
Anschluss
Pan-Germanism
Lebensraum
Dolchstoßlegende
Hitler wrote Mein Kampf with the help of which Nazi follower:
Heinrich Himmler
Rudolf Hess
Hermann Goring
Ernst Rohm
When was the Munich Agreement signed
February 1937
November 1938
September 1938
June 1938
Which country do conspiracy theorists claim Hitler moved to after the war?
Paraguay
Argentina
Uruguay
Spain
The Meiji Emperor during World War II was?
Showa
Ieyasu
Meiji
Hirohoto
Who was the leader of China when the war broke out in 1937?
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai Shek
Zhou Enlai
Ho Chi Minh
Which country invaded Poland alongside Germany in 1939?
Russia
Romania
Hungary
Croatia
