Historical Context - Churchill

Question 1

When did Hitler come to power?

Answer 1

January 1933

Question 2

When did Germany reintroduce conscription?

Answer 2

March 1935

Question 3

When was the Anglo-German Naval treaty?

Answer 3

June 1935

Question 4

When did Germany remilitarise the Rhineland?

Answer 4

March 1936

Question 5

When was the abdication crisis?

Answer 5

March 1936

Question 6

When did Chamberlain become prime minister?

Answer 6

May 1937

Question 7

When did Germany annex Austria?

Answer 7

March 1938

Question 8

When was the crisis over Czechoslovakia?

Answer 8

September 1938

Question 9

When was the Munich Agreement?

Answer 9

September 1938

Question 10

When did Germany invade Czechoslovakia?

Answer 10

March 1939

Question 11

When did Britain declare war on Germany?

Answer 11

September 1939

Question 12

When did Churchill become prime minister?

Answer 12

May 1940

Question 13

When was the League of Nations established?

Answer 13

1920

Question 14

When was the Locarno Pact?

Answer 14

1925

Question 15

What was the Locarno Pact?

Answer 15

Agreement between France, Britain, Italy and Germany guaranteeing Germany’s western frontiers as established by ToV in 1919.§

Question 16

When was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

Answer 16

August 1928

Question 17

What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

Answer 17

Outlawed war as a means of settling international disputes.

Question 18

When was the Dunkirk evacuation?

Answer 18

May 1940

Question 19

When did France surrender?

Answer 19

June 1940

Question 20

When was the Battle of Britain?

Answer 20

July-September 1940

Question 21

When was the Nazi invasion of the USSR?

Answer 21

June 1941

Question 22

When did the US enter the war?

Answer 22

December 1941

Question 23

When was the Beveridge Report?

Answer 23

November 1942

Question 24

When was the German defeat at Stalingrad?

Answer 24

February 1943

Question 25

When did the Allies invade Sicily?

Answer 25

July 1943

Question 26

When were the D-Day landings in Normandy?

Answer 26

June 1944

Question 27

When was the Yalta Conference?

Answer 27

February 1945

Question 28

When did the War in Europe end?

Answer 28

May 1945

Question 29

When did Church lose the election in Britain?

Answer 29

July 1945

Question 30

When did Italy join the war?

Answer 30

1940

Question 31

When was the ‘Destroyers for Bases’ agreement with USA?

Answer 31

September 1940

Question 32

When was the Lend-Lease Act?

Answer 32

March 1941

Question 33

When did Japan attack the US base at Pearl Harbour?

Answer 33

December 1941

Question 34

When was the Tehran Conference?

Answer 34

November 1943

Question 35

When did Stalin and Churchill make the ‘Percentages Agreement’?

Answer 35

October 1944

Question 36

When was the Yalta Conference?

Answer 36

February 1945

Question 37

When did Roosevelt die?

Answer 37

April 1945

Question 38

When was the Potsdam Conference?

Answer 38

July-August 1945

Question 39

When was Churchill’s ‘iron curtain’ speech?

Answer 39

March 1946

Question 40

When did Churchill returns to office?

Answer 40

October 1951

Question 41

When did the Greek civil war break out?

Answer 41

1944