Yr 9 End of Year Revision

Question 1

Which 2 sides fought each other at the Battle of Hastings?

Answer 1

Anglo-Saxons vs Normans

Question 2

When did the First World War start and end?

Answer 2

1914-1918

Question 3

Who was the man behind the propaganda campaign in WW1?

Answer 3

Lord Kitchener

Question 4

What does the MAIN acronym stand for?

Answer 4

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

Question 5

Where did the murder of Franz Ferdinand take place?

Answer 5

Sarajevo

Question 6

Name one type of chemical warfare used in WW1

Answer 6

Mustard gas, phosgene, chlorine

Question 7

Approximately, how many Ghurkha troops served in the British Army during WW1?

Answer 7

200,000

Question 8

Name one medical advancement during WW1

Answer 8

X-rays, plastic surgery, Thomas Splint, PTSD treatment

Question 9

What does Blitzkrieg mean?

Answer 9

Lightening War

Question 10

On what date did the evacuation of the British Army from France end?

Answer 10

4 June 1940

Question 11

What was Operation Barbarossa?

Answer 11

The German invasion of USSR

Question 12

What was the name of the German Airforce?

Answer 12

Luftwaffe

Question 13

What was the code name of evacuation of children during WW2?

Answer 13

Operation Pied Piper

Question 14

On what town did the US drop the second atomic bomb in 1945?

Answer 14

Nagasaki

Question 15

Who was President of the United States the time the atomic bomb was dropped?

Answer 15

President Truman

Question 16

In what year did the mas deportation of German Jews to concentration and death camps begin?

Answer 16

1941

Question 17

What were the laws called which discriminated against Jewish people in Germany?

Answer 17

Nuremberg Laws

Question 18

How many giants of poverty did William Beveridge identify in his 1942 report?

Answer 18

5

Question 19

When did the Second World War start and end?

Answer 19

1939-1945

Question 20

What year was the Treaty of Versailles signed?

Answer 20

1919