tema 10 SECOND WORLD WAR

10. THE SECOND WORLD WAR

1.             What was the function of League of Nations?

2.             What was the Diktat. Long explanation.

3.             What were the effects of the Great Depression?

4.             Name the factors that increased world tensions in the 1930s.

5.             Explain the protectionism during the Great Depression.

6.             What did the Treaty of Versailles say about German Rhineland?

7.             What was Hitler’s first measure that broke the Treaty of Versailles?

8.             What were the objectives of expansionist countries in the 1930s?

9.             Explain the policy of appeasement.

10.         What actions could League of Nations enforce?

11.         What countries abandoned the League of Nations? Write them in chronological order.

12.         What Tintin’s adventure occurs during Japanese invasion of Manchuria? Investigate it. Maybe four points.

13.         What is the present day name of Abyssinia?

14.         When was the battle of Adwa? Investigate it.

15.         Fill in this chart.

Date	Attacker	Invaded country
1931
	Mussolini
		Czechoslovakia

16.         What was the Sudetenland?

17.         Explain fully the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

18.         What event began the Second World War?

19.         What countries were swallowed by the USSR in 1939? Look at the drawing.

20.         What were the opposing sides in the Second World War?

21.         What were the Axis Powers?

22.         What were the Allied Powers?

23.         Explain the blitzkrieg.

24.         What countries were occupied by Germany between 1939 and 1941?

25.         What was the main objective of the Afrika Korps. Investigate it.

26.         Explain the attack on Pearl Harbor.

27.         Look at the map in page 204. What European country was annexed by Italy?

28.         Look at the map in page 204. Which were the five Axis allies during Second World War together with Vichy France and Croatian fascism?

29.         Look at the map in page 204. What European country was annexed by Germany before Second World War together with Bohemia-Moravia (present day Czech Republic)? The name is not at the map. Investigation.

30.         Look at the map in page 204. Name the five European neutral countries during Second World War? One of them is shaded.

31.         Look at the map in page 204. Which two Mediterranean islands were ruled by United Kingdom during the Second World War?

32.         Look at the map in page 205. What two islands are south of Japan?

33.         Look at the map in page 205. Which archipelagos formed the Japanese mandate before Second World War?

34.         What was the Anschluss. Investigate it.

35.         The battle of Stalingrad was an allied decisive victory. Explain it.

36.         Where and when was the Afrika Korps defeated? Explain it.

37.         What naval battle was the end of the high tide of Japanese expansion?

38.         Look at the right map. What two large islands are near from Guadalcanal?

39.         What year was the Italian peninsula invaded?

40.         Explain the Normandy Landings.

41.         When did the Second World War end in Europe?

42.         When did the Second World War end in Asia?

43.         What were the reasons for Japan’s surrender?

44.         Explain the Franco-Hitler meeting in Hendaye.

45.         What internal problems prevented the Spanish participation in the Second World War? Name them.

46.         What was the Spanish maquis? Investigate it.

47.         What was the worst internal problem? Give your opinion.

48.         Spain was a non-belligerent country during the Second World War. How did Franco support Nazi Germany?

49.         What is a war economy? Short answer.

50.         What vehicles were produced by the war industry?

51.         What is an aircraft carrier?

52.         What raw materials were most important during Second World War? Why? Deduce second question.

53.         What are the secondary effects of atomic bombs?

54.         Explain the inflation produced by war economy.

55.         Why were there shortages during world wars? Short answer is in previous paragraph.

56.         What was the states solution to the shortage problems? Explain it.

57.         What is the black market? What was its Spanish name?

58.         What country was armed by USA during the Second World War?

59.         How were the European societies turned upside down during the Second World War? Name the processes.

60.         Why did European people move to rural areas during WWII?

61.         Explain the blackouts in the WWII?

62.         Where did European people flee in the WWII?

63.         Who were the Resistance fighters (partisans)?

64.         Who were the collaborators?

65.         What was the Holocaust? Medium-long answer.

66.         When and where was the first picture shot?

67.         What other groups of people were killed by the Nazis?

68.         What is a genocide?

69.         What did Allied army liberate Auschwitz?

70.         What is the motto at the entrance of Auschwitz?

71.         What happened to people who were unable to work?

72.         What did the murderers do with those bodies?

73.         What did Allied leaders change from the Yalta Conference to Potsdam Conference?

74.         Which conference took place after the war ended?

75.         What decisions were made in the Yalta Conference?

76.         What decisions were made in the Potsdam Conference?

77.         What institution replaced the League of Nations? When and where?

78.         What were the United Nations objectives?

79.         Explain the differences between interwar years League of Nations and post WWII United Nations.

80.         What were the total numbers of losses of USSR during the Second World War? Calculate highest and lowest figures.

81.         What were the total numbers of losses of Germany during the Second World War? Calculate highest and lowest figures.

82.         If the population of United States was 130 million people in 1939 before to the war and it had 418.000 casualties what was the percentage lost over the total population? Five positives or negative points.

83.         If the population of Yugoslavia was 15'4 million people in 1939 before to the war and it had 1.000.000 casualties what was the percentage lost over the total population? Five positives or negative points.

84.         If the population of Poland was 34'8 million people in 1939 before to the war and it had 5.600.000 casualties what was the percentage lost over the total population? Five positives or negative points.