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
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Attacker
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Invaded country
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1931
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Mussolini
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Czechoslovakia
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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.
