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Question 1

What is a front?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What was the Schlieffen Plan?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

How did the Schlieffen plan go?

Answer 3

Wrong

Question 4

Duckboards

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Fire step

Answer 5

Soldiers stood on it to look and fire over the top

Question 6

Dugouts

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Periscope

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Concrete bunker

Answer 8

Reinforced subterranean bunker

Question 9

Communication trench

Answer 9

Linked the front line trench to the reserve trenches

Question 10

Reserve trenches

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Gas bell

Answer 11

Would be rung to tell troops to put on gas masks

Question 12

Who were nicknamed the ‘Big three’?

Answer 12

France, Great Britain and the USA

Question 13

Who was the Prime minister of Great Britain in 1919?

Answer 13

David Loyd George

Question 14

Who was the president of the USA in 1919?

Answer 14

Woodrow Wilson

Question 15

Who was the prime minister of France in 1919?

Answer 15

George Clemenceau

Question 16

What was the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 16

Punishments written out in a document for Germany

Question 17

What did the Treaty of Versailles entail?

Answer 17

. 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.

Question 18

Whatwas the League of Nations intended to do?

Answer 18

A knind of international club for settling problems peacefully

Question 19

Who ruled the Russian empire?

Answer 19

Tsar Nicholas II

Question 20

Who was the leader of the political party the Bolsheviks?

Answer 20

Lenin

Question 21

Did the Bolsheviks seize power fromthe Provisional Government?

Answer 21

Yes

Question 22

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

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What was the Treaty of Brest Litvosk intended to do?

Answer 23

Bring peace between Germany and Russia

Question 24

Give 2 ways the communists made Russia a more equal society

Answer 24

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

Question 25

How did the Romanov family die?

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

Who gave the orders to kill the Romanovs?

Answer 26

The communist leadership in Moscow

Question 27

Approximately how many Jews died in the Holocaust?

Answer 27

6 million

Question 28

Where was Adolf Hitler born and where?

Answer 28

In Austria in 1889

Question 29

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

Answer 29

His brilliant speeches

Question 30

What was the Beer Hall Putsch?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

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

Answer 31

The Reichstag fire

Question 32

What was the Reichstag fire?

Answer 32

When the German parliament was burnt down?

Question 33

What did the Enabling act enable Hitler to do?

Answer 33

Pass laws of whatever he wanted

Question 34

How dis the Nazis increase their popularity?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

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

Answer 35

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

Question 36

How did Hitler gain support by landowners and businessmen?

Answer 36

Because of the idea of a communist society

Question 37

What was Hitler's alternative name?

Answer 37

Führer

Question 38

What did Hitler use to gain obedience from everyone?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

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

Answer 39

To follow a policy of appeasement

Question 40

What does it mean if you appease someone?

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Was appeasement a success or failure?

Answer 41

Failure