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WorksheetsYear 10 - Spring Quiz 1
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Name the two leaders of the Spartacists, murdered in January 1919 by Freikorps.
a)
Matthias Erzberger
b)
Karl Liebknecht
c)
Dr Wolfgang Kapp
d)
'Red' Rosa Luxembourg
2.
What did the ‘Beauty of Labour’ programme aim to do?
a)
Offered discounted theatre/cinema tickets, holidays and so on to incentivize workers.
b)
Convince employers to make improvements to working conditions, e.g. washing facilities or new canteens.
c)
Increase public works spending across Germany.
d)
Build and resource concentration camps
3.
How many seats did the Nazis win in the July 1932 election?
a)
288
b)
230
c)
12
d)
196
4.
By 1939, there were 2,000 pastors in the Reich Church. How many were there in Niemoller’s Confessing Church?
a)
6000
b)
18000
c)
3500
d)
4000
5.
What was the name of the new, gritty art style popularized by figures such as Otto Dix and George Grosz during the Weimar years?
a)
Expressionism
b)
Pointillism
c)
New objectivity
d)
Cabaret
6.
Who was a rich Catholic, favourite of Hindenburg and he distrusted Hitler? (He wanted to be Chancellor)
a)
Franz von Papen
b)
General von Schleicher
c)
Josef Goebbels
d)
Woodrow Wilson
7.
Who had replaced Roosevelt as President of the United States by the time of the Potsdam Conference in 1945?
a)
Dwight D Eisenhower
b)
Jimmy Carter
c)
Harry Truman
d)
John F Kennedy
8.
Give two other changes that had occurred in between the Yalta and Potsdam conferences.
a)
Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the 1945 general election – Labour leader David Lloyd George became Prime Minister.
b)
Japan had surrendered in February 1945.
c)
The USA had successfully tested an atomic bomb in New Mexico.
d)
The United Nations had been created at the Treaty of San Francisco in Jun 1945.
9.
How did the Potsdam Conference divide up Germany?
a)
Split in half - 50/50 between USSR and the USA. East Germany and West Germany.
b)
A 'Polish Corridor' was created, separating eastern Prussia from the main body of the country and giving the Polish a coast.
c)
A second front was opened to the West.
d)
Four zones of occupation (one for each victorious power) - France, USA, USSR and Great Britain. Four analogous zones within Berlin.
10.
When was the Tehran Conference?
a)
November 1943
b)
February 1945
c)
July 1945
d)
April 1944
11.
Which one of these ideas is NOT a communist one?
a)
Several political parties representing different sectors of society
b)
All businesses and factories are owned by the state
c)
Individual rights and freedoms are less important than obedience to the state
d)
Censorship and state controlled media
12.
In exchange for gaining land in Poland, at Yalta Stalin promised that USSR would not…
a)
Expect to claim reparations from Germany after the war
b)
Try to expand communism into Greece
c)
Interfere in the US election
d)
Declare war on Japan
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