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WorksheetsWWI and WWII
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. What is this?
Trench-less warfare
Fighting with horses
Trench Warfare
Fortnite
Was trench warfare dangerous? True or False?
True
False
A state of extreme, aggressive military preparedness
Alliances
Imperialism
Militarism
Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nation
Alliances
Imperialism
Militarism
Nationalism
The policy of forming and maintaining an empire, by establishing colonies and/or dominating the affairs of weaker nations
Alliances
Imperialism
Militarism
Nationalism
A close association of nations acting together for a common objective
Alliances
Imperialism
Militarism
Nationalism
What made WWI different and more deadly than previous wars?
Faster Horses
It was the first war ever
It was a peaceful war
The technology of weaponry
What was the most often result of Trench Warfare?
Stalemates
Allied Victories
Very few deaths in no mans land
Taking over the other trench
Name the WWII Cause: Germany lost territory, was forced to pay huge reparations (payments by a defeated country for the destruction it caused in a war), was forced to take responsibility for the war through the War Guilt clause. Germany suffered from economic problems like inflation and unemployment and Germany was often unable to meet reparation payments. These problems left many Germans angry
Great Depression and the rise of Dictatorships
Treaty of Versailles
Appeasement
Invasion of Poland
Name the WW2 cause: Small nations soon learned that they could not expect protection and that aggressive totalitarian states could act without consequence. Second the inability to act and their slowness made the League appear incompetent, scared and ineffective.
Appeasement
Treaty of Versailes
Failure of the League of Nations
Invasion of Poland
Name the WWII cause: European governments seemed unable to handle the crisis. The traditional approaches to handling economic crises seemed to only cause more problems. With the current governments unable to ease the pain and suffering of unemployment and inflation, Europeans were drawn to totalitarian leaders who promised economic recovery.
Appeasement
Treaty of Versailles
Great Depression and Rise of Dictatorships
Failure of League of Nations
Name the WWII Cause: the policy of giving aggressive or enemy nations what they want in order to avoid conflict.
Appeasement
Treaty of Versailles
Invasion of Poland
Failure of League of nations
Name the WWII cause: German forces invaded. Only two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany and World War II officially began
Appeasement
Treaty of Versailles
Rise of dictatorships
Invasion of Poland
What did the Treaty of Versailles impose on Germany? (More than one answer)
To take blame for the war
Pay Reparations for the damages
Had to give up their government
Reduce their Military
Take away their territories
How was warfare in WWII different from WWI?
WW2 had less deaths
WW1 had better technology
WW2 had better technology and more deaths
WW1 had better technology and more deaths
What word means, the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Holocaust
Genocide
WW2
Trench Warfare
What was the name for the genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, systematically murdered some six million European Jews
WW1
Appeasement
Holocaust
Militarism
Why did Japan Surrender in August 1945?
The Russians took over Berlin
The United States gave up
Germany invaded japan and forced them to surrender
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan
"Thankfully, I survived. But since that day, mysterious scabs began to form all over my body. I lost hearing in my left ear, probably due to the air blast. More than a decade after the bombing, my mother began to notice glass shards growing out of her skin – debris from the day of the bombing, presumably. My younger sister suffers from chronic muscle cramps to this day, on top of kidney issues that has her on dialysis three times a week. ‘What did I do to the Americans?’ she would often say, ‘Why did they do this to me?’" This primary source is describing the effects of what event?
The attack on Pearl Harbor
The dropping of the Atomic bomb
The explosion of Hitlers bunker
The Battle of Iwo Jima
Post-WWII left tensions between....
Germany and Japan
The Allied powers (U.S. GB & France) and Russia
Germany and Canada
U.S. and Mexico
