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What is a front?

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The name given to the area where two armies meet each other.

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What was the Schlieffen Plan?

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The idea was to quickly defeat France with a huge knock£out ought Belgium to face the Russian army

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3
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How did the Schlieffen plan go?

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Wrong

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4
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Duckboards

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Were placed on the ground to stop troops sinking in the mud.

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5
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Fire step

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Soldiers stood on it to look and fire over the top

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Dugouts

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Rooms dug out of the black wall of trenches. Orders received by telephone

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Periscope

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Allowed troops to see over the top without risk of being shot

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Concrete bunker

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Reinforced subterranean bunker

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Communication trench

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Linked the front line trench to the reserve trenches

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Reserve trenches

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Soldiers went their to rest or wait to go onto the front line

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11
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Gas bell

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Would be rung to tell troops to put on gas masks

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12
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Who were nicknamed the ‘Big three’?

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France, Great Britain and the USA

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13
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Who was the Prime minister of Great Britain in 1919?

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David Loyd George

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Who was the president of the USA in 1919?

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Woodrow Wilson

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Who was the prime minister of France in 1919?

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George Clemenceau

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What was the Treaty of Versailles?

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Punishments written out in a document for Germany

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What did the Treaty of Versailles entail?

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. Germany must pay for the war in money and goods.
. Germany to have no air force or submarines.
. Germany had to hand over colonies to Britain and France.
. Parts of countries cut off to make new countries
. League of Nations set up.

18
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Whatwas the League of Nations intended to do?

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A knind of international club for settling problems peacefully

19
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Who ruled the Russian empire?

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Tsar Nicholas II

20
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Who was the leader of the political party the Bolsheviks?

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Lenin

21
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Did the Bolsheviks seize power fromthe Provisional Government?

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Yes

22
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What dis Lenin’s new secret police do and what is the secret police called?

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Tortured and executed the opponents of Lenin’s new government and the secret police was called the Cheka

23
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What was the Treaty of Brest Litvosk intended to do?

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Bring peace between Germany and Russia

24
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Give 2 ways the communists made Russia a more equal society

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. Women were declared equal to men
. All land was taken away from the Tsar and the old landlords

25
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How did the Romanov family die?

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The secret police told the Romanovs that their safety was in danger, so they moves into a cellar. As soon as they entered the cellar, the police opened fire on the family and they died.

26
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Who gave the orders to kill the Romanovs?

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The communist leadership in Moscow

27
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Approximately how many Jews died in the Holocaust?

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6 million

28
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Where was Adolf Hitler born and where?

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In Austria in 1889

29
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What gained Hitler a lot of support in his early life?

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His brilliant speeches

30
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What was the Beer Hall Putsch?

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The march into Berlin with his Storm-troopers and to remove the Weimar government from power.

31
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What did Hitler use as an excuse to arrest many of his communist opponents?

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The Reichstag fire

32
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What was the Reichstag fire?

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When the German parliament was burnt down?

33
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What did the Enabling act enable Hitler to do?

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Pass laws of whatever he wanted

34
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How dis the Nazis increase their popularity?

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By appearing ro provide the solution to all of Germany’s problems

35
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How did Hitler and the Nazis use propaganda to appeal to theordinary people of Germany?

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Used simple slogans on newspapers, radio, mass ralies, and more.

36
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How did Hitler gain support by landowners and businessmen?

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Because of the idea of a communist society

37
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What was Hitler’s alternative name?

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Führer

38
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What did Hitler use to gain obedience from everyone?

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Impose terror, propaganda, loyalty from youth, and economic success.

39
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What did Chamberlain believe was the best way to avoid another war?

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To follow a policy of appeasement

40
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What does it mean if you appease someone?

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You decide to give them most of what they waqnt to keep them happy

41
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Was appeasement a success or failure?

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Failure

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