End Of Year Test

Question 1

Afghanistan

Answer 1

A country invaded by the Soviet Union in the 1980s

Question 2

Ford mechanists’ strike

Answer 2

1968 strike by women demanding equal pay to men for skilled work

Question 3

Osama bin Laden

Answer 3

Leader responsible for organising 9/11

Question 4

Feminism

Answer 4

Belief in women’s rights based on equality of gender

Question 5

Communism

Answer 5

A political idea where all property is owned by the state and people are paid according to what they need

Question 6

When countries build up their armed forces

Answer 6

Militarism

Question 7

Friendships between countries, especially in a time of war

Answer 7

Alliances

Question 8

A desire for a country to have a big empire

Answer 8

Imperialism

Question 9

When a country wants to rule itself and not be a part of a wider empire

Answer 9

Nationalism

Question 10

A leader who rules without listening to others and who doesn’t allow opposition

Answer 10

Dictator

Question 11

The event of May/June 1940 in which British and French soldiers were evacuated from the beaches of northern France back to Britain

Answer 11

Dunkirk

Question 12

Hitler’s policy of building up his army

Answer 12

Rearmament

Question 13

Hitler’s sustained bombing campaign on British cities in 1940-41

Answer 13

The blitz

Question 14

Agreement by Labour and Conservative parties to invest in rebuilding Britain after the war in a way which would benefit everyone

Answer 14

Post war consensus

Question 15

Invention which allowed people to listen to music wherever they wanted

Answer 15

Transistor radio