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What date did the First World War end?
11th November 1918
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What was the official name of the conference where a peace treaty was negotiated?
Paris peace conference
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What was the informal name for Wilson's list of ideas?
Wilson's fourteen points
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What was the piece of land that Germany lost to France?
Alsace Lorraine
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How many soldiers was Germany permitted?
100,000
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How many battleships was Germany permitted?
6
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What did clause 231 of the Treaty of Versailles say?
Germany had to accept the blame 'for causing all the loss and damage of the war'
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How much did Germany have to pay in reparations?
£6.6 million
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What percentage of their land did Germany lose in total?
10%
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What percentage of their population did Germany lose in total?
12.5%
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What piece of land was to become demilitarised?
Rhineland
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What were two aims of the League of Nations?
self determination in Europe and peace
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Who were the most powerful countries in the League of Nations?
Japan, Britain, France and Italy
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How many countries joined the League of Nations at the start?
42
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In which place was the League of Nations' home?
Geneva, Switzerland
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What did article 10 of the League of Nations' Covenant mean?
Collective security
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The League of Nations was pretty successful in the 1920s. What were two of their successes?
Sending prisoners of war home and freeing 20,000 slaves
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What were two pieces of diplomacy during the 1920s that did not involve the League of Nations?
Kellogg-Briag Pact and the Lecarno Pact
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What was the first real crisis for the League of Nations?
The Manchurian Crisis
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What did the League of Nations fail to get countries to do at a conference in 1932?
Disarmament
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Where was the second main crisis for the League of Nations in 1935?
The Abyssinian Crisis
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When had Italy previously tried and failed to invade Abyssinia?
1896
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What historical thing did Mussolini talk about trying to restore?
The Roman Empire
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What did Mussolini use as his cue to threaten an invasion of Abyssinia in 1934?
The boarder dispute in the Oasis
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When did Italy invade Abyssinia?
October 1935
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What did a French and British politician get into trouble for doing in December 1935?
planning to give Mussolini 2/3 of Abyssinia
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What were Hitler's three aims?
The People's Community, German purity and the Treaty of Versailles
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What was the name of the event in 1934 where the Chancellor of Austria was killed by Nazis?
The Dollfuss Affair
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What was the date when Germany invaded Poland?
1st September 1939
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When did Britain and France declare war on Germany?
3rd September 1939
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As a result of his fears, Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact. What did it agree?
This freed Hitler to invade part of Poland, and Stalin the other part
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What did the League of Nations decide on 4 September 1935?
that neither Italy or Abyssinia were responsible for the dispute
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What did the League of Nations ban in response?
weapons sales to both sides
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What did Hitler do in March 1936 that turned the League of Nations' attention away from Abyssinia?
marched troops into the Rhineland
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What were Hitler's three aims?
The people's community, the Treaty of Versailles and German Purity
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What was the name of the event in 1934 where the Chancellor of Austria was killed by Nazis?
the Dollfuss Affair
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What dod the Saar vote to decide in 1935?
whether their region should return to German rule
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Germany was allowed no air force. How many planes did they have by 1935?
2500
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Germany was allowed 100,000 soldiers. How many did they have by 1939?
1,000,000
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What was the process of Germany increasing their armed forces called?
re-armament
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What did Hitler use as his excuse to remilitarise the Rhineland?
He claimed that Germany was under threat due to a treaty between France and Russia
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What conflict did Hitler use as an excuse to test his new military?
The Spanish Civil war
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What was the anti-comintern pact of 1936?
An alliance between Germany and Japan and then Italy joined. The alliance opposed the idea of communism but specifically the soviet union
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What was the name of Britain's policy throughout the 1930s of giving Hitler what he wanted?
appeasement
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What were two arguments in favour of appeasement?
It was preventing the spread of communism as Nazi Germany was seen to be slowing it down and avoiding war
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What were two against this policy?
Encouraging Hitler's aggression and Russia was scared
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What was the name of the Austrian Chancellor in 1938?
Schuschnigg
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When did Schuschnigg and Hitler meet and why?
In 1938, Schuschnigg discovered plans of Nazis stirring up trouble and so went to Germany to meet Hitler
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What happened at the meeting?
Hitler had 10 demands. His chief demand was that Schusschnigg should make Seyss-Inquart interior minister and release the 10 Austrian Nazis from prison
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What did Schuschnigg then do?
He reluctantly agreed but called a plebiscite which enabled the Austrians to vote whether they wanted a free Austria or not
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Why could Hitler not risk a plebiscite happening?
He could not be sure that he would get what he wanted - the Austrians could have voted against him
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What did Hitler do to stop it happening?
He demanded that it could not take place and that Schuschnigg should resign. He threatened that he would order his military to invade Austria
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What did Austrian people then decide and when?
The Austrians voted for the Anschluss when Nazi troops invaded Austria on the 12 March 1938
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After the Rhineland, Austria and Czechslovakia, what was Hitler's next target?
Poland
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Why did Hitler want the Sudentenand area of Czechoslovakia?
As it was home to 3 million people of German origin
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Which countries had promised to support Czechoslovakia?
Britain and France
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What did Chamberlain do to try and avert war on 15 September 1938?
He flew to meet Hitler and agreed that Hitler would have parts of the Sudetenland
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What did Hitler demand from Chamberlain?
That he wanted all of the Sudetenland
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What did Chamberlain and Daladier try to do on 15 September 1938?
To give Hitler a part of the Sudetenland
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How did Hitler then change his demands and justify them?
He decided he wanted all of the Sudetenland and he claimed that the Czechoslovakian Government was mistreating Germany's people
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What was the agreement signed on 29 September that averted war and what did it decide?
The Munich agreement and it decided that Hitler would take all of the Sudetenland
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