Summer term exam

Question 1

What was the causes of the Franco-Prussain War?

Answer 1

One of the causes was that the Spanish had no one to take the throne so they went and offered it to Prince Leopold who was one of the princes of Prussia and the French didn’t like this because it meant that there were two countries that was now owned by the other so it meant that they could easily attack from each side and take control of France

Question 2

What was the causes of the Franco-Prussain War? 2

Answer 2

Another cause was that the Chancellor of Prussia (Otto Van Bismark) edited the french telegram to make it look like King Wilhelm (The King of France) had insulted the French Ambasador. This made France really angry.

Question 3

Who won the Franco-Prussain War?

Answer 3

Prussia won the Franco-Prussain war

Question 4

What were some of the consequences of the Franco-Prussain war?

Answer 4

France lost a big part of their country (Alsace Lorraine) which gave Prussia more space for their army. Prussia and a couple of other countries joined together after the war and created Germany.

Question 5

Why did France go to war with Prussia?

Answer 5

France went to war with Prussia because of a deliberate insulting telegram from the Prussians who wished to create a unified Germany.

Question 6

What led to the creation of Germany?

Answer 6

Prussias victory in the Franco-Prussian war led to the creation of germany, which was no considered a new Great Power, upsetting the balance of power previously in Europe

Question 7

How was the French pride dented?

Answer 7

French pride was dented in the proclamation made by Kaiser Wilhelm I at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, fuelling French resentment towards Germany

Question 8

How did Germany make Britain feel threatend?

Answer 8

Germany wished to create an Empire like that of other great Euopean powers (e.g. Britain) and this threatend British politicians into believing that Germany wanted to overtake them in naval supremacy.

Question 9

What happened between Germany and Britain from when Britain felt threatend?

Answer 9

Britain and Germanny embarked upon arms race in greating the most powerful navy. The primary weapon of which was called the ‘Dreadnought’. This subsequently led to better relations between Britain, France and Russia who had also begun to build up their armed forces.

Question 10

What were the two armed defensive alliances called and what countries were they made up of?

Answer 10

Europe was split into two armed defensive alliances by 1907. These were the Triple Entente, made up of Britain, France and Russia, and the Triple Alliance, made up of Germany, Austro-Hungary and Italy.

Question 11

What did the fall of the Ottoman Empire create?

Answer 11

The fall of the Ottoman Empire created an unstable situation in the Balkans region of Europe. This threatened the Austro-Hungarian Empire who faced resistance from The Black Hand who wished to unify all Serbs under the country of Serbia

Question 12

What did the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand cause?

Answer 12

Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand, assassinated the Archduke of austro-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo subsequently triggering the alliance systems in Europe into an all-out World War

Question 13

How many peoplpe joined the British army to help fight the war?

Answer 13

The regular British army was not big enough and so 1.1 million volunteers were recruited following an extensive propaganda campaign by the British govenment

Question 14

How did the British govenment do to get more men to fight in the war?

Answer 14

By 1916, conscription was introduced by the British govenment to make it compulsory for single men between 18 and 41 to join the army

Question 15

Where was the first world war fought?

Answer 15

The First World War was fought in several theatres around the world including Western and Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East

Question 16

What happened after the Schlieffen Plan failed?

Answer 16

The Schlieffen Plan failure led to a stalemate in Europe whereby both sides dug long trenches facing each other. Thousands were killed and wounded, taking and retaking a few kilometers at a time.

Question 17

What were the conditions in the trenches?

Answer 17

Conditions in the trenches were poor for many soldiers living in dirty, wet trenches surrounded by death, lice and rats.

Question 18

What was the Battle of the Somme?

Answer 18

The Battle of the Somme was a disaster for the British with 57470 dead or wounded on the first day on the 1st of July 1916. By November, 620,000 Allied soldiers had been killed or wounded for the gain of 15km of land.

Question 19

True or False? Many poems of the First World War were written by people who fought in trenches and battlefields, expressing their feelings about the war?

Answer 19

True

Question 20

When did the Battle of the Somme start?

Answer 20

1st of July 1916

Question 21

When did the Battle of the Somme end?

Answer 21

18th of November 1916

Question 22

When did Karl Marx form the basis of communism?

Answer 22

Karl Marx formed the basis of communism in the late 19th century. His ideas were later build on and changed by others.

Question 23

What would be established after a natural and inevitable overthrow of governments that favoured private property occured?

Answer 23

A dictatorship of the proletarait.

Question 24

How was the Russian Revolution caused?

Answer 24

The Russian Revolution was caused by several things including the nature of leadership of the Tsar, Nicholas II, rising political opposition due to a growinig middle class and Russia joining the First World War.

Question 25

How did the Western world feel about Russia becoming communist?

Answer 25

The capitalist West were horrified by the establishment of communism in Russia and contributed to the Russian Civil War, which later fuelled suspicions between East and West in the future.

Question 26

Why did fascism become popular?

Answer 26

Fascism becam popular due to unhappiness with democratic governments which were seen as ineffective during the inter-war period.

Question 27

What is fascism?

Answer 27

Fascism is a movement that promotes the idea of a nation being under the control of an autocratic rule. The rule is that you are mean’t to hate communism, think democracy is bad, be very nationalistic, believe in unity through propegnda and make sure there are no political parties

Question 28

How did Adolf Hitler use economic depression in the 1930s to present himself as the only hope?

Answer 28

Adolf Hitler used the economic depression of the 1930s to present himself as the only hope to restore German pride an hounor, and stop a communist takeover. He became the leader of Germany in January 1933 and by 1934 he called himself the Fuhrer which is the German word for leader.

Question 29

What did Hitler do which was one of the main causes of the Second World War?

Answer 29

Hitler wrote his ideas down in a book (Mein Kampf) which would become the basis of Germany’s foreign policy, playing a major role in causing the Second World War.

Question 30

What is Capitalism?

Answer 30

If you are a capitalist you support capitalism which is an economic system in which certain people own and control property in accord with their interests.

Question 31

What is Communism?

Answer 31

It is a system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives what they need.

Question 32

What happened between 1939 and 1941 with the Jewish people in Europe?

Answer 32

Between 1939 and 1941, most of Europe fell under the control of the Nazis and this placed many Jews under Nazi control. Many of these Jews were deported to Poland to live in ghettos.

Question 33

What happened between 1941 and 1945 with the Jewish people in Europe?

Answer 33

Between 1941 and 1945, mistreatment escalated with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Einsatzgruppen were given the task of killing Jews they found.

Question 34

What happened in the Wannsee Conference?

Answer 34

In 1941, SS Genral Reinhard Heydrich was told to make plans for a ‘compete solution to the Jewish question.’ In 1942 at the Wannsee Conference, they came up with the ‘Final Solution’ of the ‘Jewish problem’.

Question 35

Why were extermination camps built?

Answer 35

Extermination camps were built throughout Poland, with the largest at Auschwitz Birkenau, to mass murder the jewish people.

Question 36

How many Jews were murdered in the Holocaust?

Answer 36

Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. That is two out of every three Jewish people living in Europe before the war.

Question 37

What impact did the Holocaust have on the Greenman family?

Answer 37

Leon Greenman almost lost his entire family, as well as all his Jewish friends from Rotterdam. Out of 700 people with whom Leon had travelled to Auschwitz-Birkenau, only he and one other person survived.

Question 38

What was formed throughout Europe during WW2?

Answer 38

There were Jewish resistance in various forms throughout Europe. These included Partisan resistance groups in Eastern Europe, the Jewish Fighting Organisation of the Warsaw Uprising and various uprisings at the extermination camps such as Auschwitz II and Sobibor

Question 39

What were some factors that contributed to the Holocaust?

Answer 39

Hitler, Nazi officials, WW2, Wannsee Conference