Lesson 2K.2.1

2K.2.1 Failure of international peace and origins of the Second World War, 1917–1941 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 21

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Lesson 2K.2.1, Failure of international peace and origins of the Second World War, 1917–1941: 20 multiple choice questions for the AQA History (7042), Unit 21: 2K International Relations and Global Conflict, c1890–1941, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. Which 1919 treaty set the terms of peace for Germany after the First World War?

    • Treaty of Versailles
    • Treaty of Trianon
    • Treaty of Saint-Germain
    • Treaty of Neuilly

  2. Which US President proposed the 'Fourteen Points' at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919?

    • Woodrow Wilson
    • Warren Harding
    • Calvin Coolidge
    • Theodore Roosevelt

  3. Which major power failed to join the League of Nations upon its creation?

    • USA
    • France
    • Italy
    • Britain

  4. Which industrial region was occupied by France and Belgium in 1923?

    • Rhineland
    • Sudetenland
    • Ruhr
    • Saarland

  5. Which 1925 agreements guaranteed Germany's western borders as established at Versailles?

    • Locarno Treaties
    • Rapallo Treaty
    • Stresa Front
    • Rome Pacts

  6. Which 1928 agreement renounced war as an instrument of national policy?

    • The Dawes Plan
    • The Young Plan
    • The Kellogg-Briand Pact
    • The Geneva Protocol

  7. Which 1924 plan rescheduled German reparations payments and provided US loans?

    • Marshall Plan
    • Dawes Plan
    • Morgenthau Plan
    • Young Plan

  8. Which crisis in 1931-1933 showed the failure of collective security when Japan seized territory from China?

    • The Abyssinian Crisis
    • The Manchurian Crisis
    • The Czech Crisis
    • The Rhineland Crisis

  9. Which crisis in 1935–1936 exposed the League of Nations' failure to stop Italian aggression?

    • Agadir Crisis
    • Abyssinian Crisis
    • Manchurian Crisis
    • Corfu Crisis

  10. Which 1932 conference effectively ended German reparations obligations?

    • Stresa Conference
    • London Conference
    • Lausanne Conference
    • Genoa Conference

  11. The remilitarisation of the Rhineland in 1936 directly breached which 1925 agreement?

    • Kellogg-Briand Pact
    • Anti-Comintern Pact
    • Pact of Steel
    • Locarno Pact

  12. What German term describes the union of Austria and Germany in March 1938?

    • Gleichschaltung
    • Volksgemeinschaft
    • Anschluss
    • Lebensraum

  13. Which region of Czechoslovakia was ceded to Germany by the 1938 Munich Agreement?

    • Sudetenland
    • Moravia
    • Danzig
    • Bohemia

  14. Which non-aggression pact was signed between Germany and the USSR in August 1939?

    • Nazi-Soviet Pact
    • Pact of Steel
    • Tripartite Pact
    • Anti-Comintern Pact

  15. Which German action in September 1939 directly triggered the start of the Second World War?

    • Invasion of France
    • Anschluss of Austria
    • Invasion of Poland
    • Occupation of Prague

  16. What was the military alliance signed between Germany and Italy in May 1939 called?

    • Rome-Berlin Axis
    • Pact of Steel
    • Tripartite Pact
    • Anti-Comintern Pact

  17. Which policy adopted by Britain and France undermined collective security during the 1930s?

    • Appeasement
    • Containment
    • Isolationism
    • Detente

  18. Which US naval base was attacked by Japan in December 1941?

    • Wake Island
    • Pearl Harbor
    • Midway
    • Guam

  19. What code name was given to Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941?

    • Operation Overlord
    • Operation Sea Lion
    • Operation Fall Gelb
    • Operation Barbarossa

  20. Which international organisation was established in 1919 to maintain world peace?

    • United Nations
    • League of Nations
    • Triple Entente
    • Warsaw Pact

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