history

• In which city was the first nuclear bomb dropped?

  Hiroshima
• When did World War I begin?

  1914
• When did World War I end?

  1918
• Which country dropped the first atomic bomb?

  America
• What clause did Germany have to sign admitting that it was to blame for the war?

  War Guilt Clause
• Who were the KGB?

  The Russian secret police
• In what year did Hitler become the Workers Party Leader?

  1921
• When the stock market collapsed which other economy collapsed with it?

  American
• When did the Great Depression begin?

  1929
• Who started the fire that burnt down the Reichstag building in 1933?

  The Nazi's started the fire
• In what year was the Nazi Party the most popular?


  1933
• What does Fuhrer mean in English?

  leader
• In what year did World War 2 end?

  1945
• Which laws were passed in 1935 which denied people in Germany many human rights?

  the Nuremburg laws
• At what conference was it decided to divide Germany into 4 zones if she was defeated?

  Yalta conference
• In what year did Hitler come into power?

  1933
• Who was Sir Winston Churchill?

  Prime minister of Britain
• What is 'operation Barbarossa' in 1941?

  the Nazi's marched into Russia
• Who was the General secretary of the communist party?

  Joseph Stalin
• When did America only join WWII?

  when Pearl Harbour was attacked by the Japanese in December 1941
• Who was Harry S. Truman?

  President of the United States
• Which 3 countries formed the Axis powers?

  Germany, Italy and Japan
• Which communist government was known for replacing Tsar Nicolas II ?

  the Bolsheviks
• How many Jews were murdered by the Nazi's in WWII?

  About 6 million
• Who was the leader who followed Lenin after his death?

  Joseph Stalin
• What idea did the Nazi's believe in?

  survival of the fittest
• Which scientist's theories were used to develop the atomic bomb?

  Albert Einstein
• What was the final solution?


  Holocaust
• What is the ''purple heart medal?''

  An award given to United States soldiers injured or killed in war
• Which German student was an active member of the White Rose Movement?

  Sophia Scholl
• Why were Hiroshima and Nagasaki the cities chosen by the United States to drop the first atomic bombs?

  They developed weapons of war for Japan
• Who is Dietrich Boenhoffer and why is he so important?

  He was a German pastor of a Lutheran church called Confessing Church and he was well known for standing up and speaking out against the Nazi's.
• In which year did the Soviet Union and it's communist government came to an end?

  1991
• When did Hitler die?

  30 April 1945
• Which war ended on 1 September 1939?

  World War II
• When did Italy surrender to the Allies?

  27 April 1943
• Which German dictator set out to dominate Europe and exterminate those who he viewed as inferior?

  Adolf Hitler
• What does VE Day stand for?

  Victory Europe Day
• The systematic killing of Jews in Germany was called __________.

  The Holocaust
• At the end of WWII, which country dropped 2 nuclear bombs?

  USA