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• Who were the Suffragettes?

  Groups of women fighting for voting rights
• Did women get the vote before the First World War?

  Yes, in 1918 some women gained voting rights
• Which country had the largest empire before the First World War?

  Britain
• Which two countries competed to build battleships?

  Britain and Germany
• Which countries were in the Triple Alliance?

  Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
• Which countries were in the Triple Entente?

  France, Russia, Britain
• What was the name of the terrorist organization that hated Austria-Hungary?

  The Black Hand Gang
• Who did the Black Hand Gang assassinate in June 1941?

  Franz Ferdinand
• Why did the Schlieffen Plan fail?

  Belgium resisted more fiercely than expected
• Why did soldiers dig trenches during the war?

  For protection from artillery fire
• What were the names of the three lines of trenches?

  Front line, support trench, reserve trench
• What was ‘No Man’s Land’?

  Area between two front lines with no control
• What problems did soldiers face in the trenches?

  Trench foot, shell shock, and rats
• What does it mean to ‘go over the top’?

  Soldiers charging across No Man's Land
• In what year did the First World War end?

  1918
• Why were munitions workers nicknamed ‘canaries’?

  TNT turned their skin yellow
• What was the Treaty of Versailles?

  Peace treaty between Germany and the allies
• What were reparations?

  Compensation for war damage
• Name one way Germany was punished by the Treaty of Versailles.

  Germany had to pay £6.6 billion
• What are the main features of a dictatorship?

  No elections, one ruler, no political parties
• What are the main features of a democracy?

  Vote for government, different parties, freedom
• Name the main dictatorships between 1918 and 1939.

  Stalin in USSR, Hitler in Germany
• What did Communists believe?

  People are equal, ownership is shared
• What did Fascists believe?

  Opposed to communism, national pride, racism
• What were Hitler’s foreign policy aims?

  Rearm Germany, prepare for war, regain land
• What does rearmament mean?

  To build up weapons and armies
• When did Hitler send troops into the Rhineland?

  March 7th, 1936
• What and when was Anschluss?

  Germany took over Austria on March 12, 1938
• Name the part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted to take over.

  The Sudetenland
• Who was the British Prime Minister in 1938?

  Neville Chamberlain
• What was appeasement?

  Letting Hitler do what he wanted to prevent war
• What and when was the Munich Agreement?

  Settlement signed on September 30, 1938
• How would Hitler view the USSR and Stalin?

  With hostility and contempt
• What was the Nazi Soviet Pact?

  Agreement to split Poland without conflict
• Where did Hitler invade in 1939?

  Poland
• Name the two sides in the Second World War.

  Axis powers and Allies
• What was Blitzkrieg?

  German military strategy focusing on rapid attacks
• Name some European countries occupied by Germany in 1940.

  France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark
• Where is Dunkirk?

  On the Northern coast of France
• What was ‘Operation Dynamo’?

  Evacuation of British and Allied forces from Dunkirk