history end of year revision

What name was given to the anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian Civil War?

The Whites

What was the name of the army of the USSR?

The Red Army

When did Lenin die?

January 1924

Who became the leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin's death?

Joseph Stalin

What was the name of the industrialisation programmes that were launched to modernise the USSR?

Five-Year Plans

In what part of the USSR did the first of these programmes cause a massive famine in 1932-33?

The Ukraine

What was the name of the Soviet Union's secret police agency?

The NKVD

What name was given to the fake trials of high-ranking Communists staged during the Terror of 1937-38?

Show trials

What treaty of 1919 formally ended the First World War?

Treaty of Versailles

How many soldiers were allowed in the German army because of the Treaty of Versailles?

100,000

What did Germany have to accept when they signed the Treaty of Versailles?

Responsibility for starting the war

How much money did Germany have to pay in reparations as punishment for losing World War One?

£6.6 billion

What name is given to the democratic period of German history after the First World War?

Weimar Germany

What was the full name of the Nazi party?

National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)

What book did Hitler write outlining his political beliefs and future plans?

Mein Kampf

Which 1929 event caused a serious economic crisis in Germany?

The Great Depression

Who appointed Hitler as Chancellor in 1933?

President Hindenburg

Which mysterious event did Hitler use to weaken the Communists?

The Reichstag Fire

Which event turned Germany into a dictatorship?

The Enabling Act

What name was given to Germany under the Nazis?

The Third Reich

What organisation was set up to control young people's time outside of school?

The Hitler Youth

What was the imaginary "ideal race" that Hitler wanted to create?

Aryans

What laws restricted citizenship to ethnic Germans, and forbade marriage and sexual relations between Germans and Jews?

The Nuremberg Laws

What elite Nazi organisation spearheaded the persecution of Jews?

The SS (Schutzstaffel)

Identify two groups of people (other than Jews) that faced persecution under the Nazis.

Roma (gypsies), the mentally ill, the disabled, LGBT people, alcoholics, beggars

What pogrom occurred on the night of 9 November 1938?

Kristallnacht

What did Hitler immediately start doing when he became Chancellor that broke the Treaty of Versailles?

Rearmament

In what industrial region of Germany did Hitler station troops in 1936?

The Rhineland

What was the British policy of allowing Hitler to take what he wanted to avoid war?

Appeasement

What 1938 act of union united Germany and Austria?

The Anschluss

Which British Prime Minister agreed to Hitler annexing a portion of Czechoslovakia in the Munich Agreement of 1938?

Neville Chamberlain

What was the name of the area of Czechoslovakia that Hitler annexed in 1938?

Sudetenland

What treaty was signed on 24 August 1939, causing shock throughout Europe?

The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact

When did Hitler invade Poland, beginning the Second World War?

1 September 1939

What German form of warfare was based on rapid movement and regular, concentrated attacks?

Blitzkrieg

Identify two countries the Nazis conquered in 1940 and 1941.

Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece

From what port were Allied troops evacuated to Britain during the fall of France?

Dunkirk

What was the Nazi-allied regime that took power in France after the German victory?

Vichy France

What was the name of the Nazi air force?

The Luftwaffe

What recent invention allowed the Royal Air Force to win the Battle of Britain?

Radar

What was the name of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941?

Operation Barbarossa

Identify one reason why the invasion of the Soviet Union was unsuccessful.

Blitzkrieg ineffective over great distances; troops unprepared for winter

Who became Prime Minister of Britain in 1940?

Winston Churchill

What was the German campaign of bombing major British cities called?

The Blitz

How were children protected during the German bombing campaign of Britain?

Evacuated to the country

What did the British government introduce to ensure everyone had enough to eat?

Rationing

What is the term for the mobilisation of an entire society for warfare?

Total war

How many more women did government war work in the Second World War than in the First?

Eight times as many

What shelter was built in people's back gardens to protect them from air raids?

Anderson

What was the role of the Home Guard?

Defend Britain from possible invasion