history exam revision

Question 1

WHEN WAS THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES SIGNED

Answer 1

28TH JUNE 1919

Question 2

WHAT FOUR COUNTRIES DOMINATED AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE

Answer 2

BRITAIN ITALY FRANCE USA

Question 3

WHO WAS USA’S PRESIDENT AT THE TIME

Answer 3

WOODROW WILSON

Question 4

WHO WAS FRANCES PRIME MINISTER AT THE TIME

Answer 4

GEORGES CLEMENCEAU

Question 5

WHY DID CLEMENCEAU WANT TO WEAKEN GERMANY AS A RESULT OF THE WAR

Answer 5

BECAUSE FRANCE SUFFERED GREATLY

Question 6

WHAT DID WOODROW WILSON WANT TO ACHIEVE

Answer 6

LASTING PEACE

Question 7

WHAT WERE THE TERMS OF THE TREATY IN REGARDS TO GERMANY

Answer 7

• HAD TO GIVE UP LARGE SECTIONS OF ITS TERRITORY AND ALL OVERSEAS COLONIES
• LIMITED ARMY 100,000 MEN (MAILY VOLUNTEERS)
• NOT PERMITTED TO POSSESS ANY AIR FORCE, TANKS, SUBS OR HEAVY ARTILLERY
• HAD TO TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF WWI AND FORCED TO PAY REPARATIONS

Question 8

WHAT WAS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Answer 8

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FORMED AT THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE

Question 9

WHO SUGGESTED THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS WHAT WAS INTERESTING ABOUT THEM

Answer 9

USA, THEY WERENT APART OF THE LEAGUE AS THEY WERE RELUCTANT TO GET INVOLVED IN EUROPEAN CONFLICT

Question 10

WHAT WAS THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Answer 10

A SEVERE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND HARDSHIP

Question 11

WHAT BECAME A RESULT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Answer 11

ECONOMY EVAPORATED 
BUISNESSES CLOSED DOWN
UNEMPLOYMENT GREW
WORKERS LOST THEIR JOBS
WAGES WERE CUT

Question 12

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF AUSTRALIANS LOST THIER JOBS IN 1932

Answer 12

32%

Question 13

WHAT WAS AUSTRALIAS LAND PROCLAIMED

Answer 13

TERRA NULLIUS - NO MANS LAND

Question 14

WHAT YEAR DID EUROPEAN SETTLERS ARRIVE ON AUSTRALIAS SHORES

Answer 14

1788

Question 15

WHAT WERE THE TWO MAJOR BATTLES FOUGHT AT SEA

Answer 15

BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA

BATTLE OF MIDWAY

Question 16

WHAT WAS THE KOKODA CAMPAIGN KNOWN AS

Answer 16

THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MILITARY CAMPAIGN IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

Question 17

HOW DID THE TERMS OF THE TREATY AFFECT GERMANY

Answer 17

ECONOMICALLY AND POLITICALLY

Question 18

HOW DID THE GERMANS FEEL TOWARDS THE VICTORIOUS NATIONS

Answer 18

SENSE OF BITTERNESS AND RESENTMENT

TREATED UNFAIRLY

Question 19

WHEN DID SINGAPORE SURRENDER TO THE JAPANESE

Answer 19

15 FEBRUARY 1942

Question 20

HOW MANY TROOPS WERE TAKEN JAPANESE POW

Answer 20

130000 (15000 AUS)

Question 21

WHAT WAS THE GREATER EAST ASIAN CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE

Answer 21

THE IDEA THAT ASIA COULD BE FREE OF WESTERN INFLUENCE FOR ASIAN NATIONS

Question 22

WHAT WAS THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES

Answer 22

TERMS THAT PLACED RESTRICTIONS ON GERMANYS ARMY, FORCED GERMANY TO TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR WWI AND TO PAY REPARATIONS FOR DAMAGE CAUSED DURING THE WAR

Question 23

WHO WAS JOHN CURTAIN

Answer 23

PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA DURING WWII

Question 24

WHO WAS ROBERT MENZIES

Answer 24

THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR (II)

Question 25

WHO WAS WINSTON CHURCHILL

Answer 25

BRTITISH PRIME MINISTER DURING THE WAR

Question 26

WHO WAS WOODROW WILSON

Answer 26

THE US PRESIDENT DURING THE WAR

Question 27

WHAT RESOURCES DID JAPAN LACK IN AND WHO WERE THEY DEPENDANT OF FOR THESE RESOURCES

Answer 27

OIL, RUBBER, COAL, RUBBER FOR STEEL PRODUCTION | CHINA AND USA

Question 28

WHAT IS COMMUNISM

Answer 28

A WAY OF ORGANISING A SOCIETY WHERE ALL GOODS ARE DISTRIBUTED EQUALLY ACCORDING TO NEED, PUBLICLY OWNED

Question 29

WHAT IS MILITARISM

Answer 29

FOCUS WITHIN A COUNTRY ON BOOSTING THE STRENGTH OF MILITARY BY GROWING ARMED FORCES AND SPENDING ON MILITARY EQUIPMENT

Question 30

WHAT IS FASCISM

Answer 30

GOVERNMENT RUN BY A DICTATOR WHO HAVE COMPLETE POWER

Question 31

WHEN WAS THE NAZI PARTY FORMED AND WHO WAS ITS LEADER AND WHAT WERE ITS IDEOLOGIES

Answer 31

``` 1921, ADOLF HITLER NATIONALISM ANTI-COMMUNISM ANTI-SEMITISM (ANTI JEW) ETHNIC JEWS WERE RACIALLY SUPERIOR ```

Question 32

WHAT DID THE GREAT DEPRESSION CAUSE IN REGARDS TO THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT

Answer 32

CAUSED MILITARY TO TAKE OVER WHO WERE FAR MORE AGGRESSIVE IN THEIR APPROACH TO SOLVING ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

Question 33

WHAT YEAR DID JAPAN SIGN A TRIPARTITE PACT WHICH CEMENTED THE ALLIANCE OF AXIS POWERS ITALY GERMANY

Answer 33

1940

Question 34

WHEN DID JAPAN ATTACK PEARL HARBOUR

Answer 34

DECEMBER 7 1941

Question 35

HOW DID THE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOUR BACKFIRE ON JAPAN

Answer 35

CAUSE USA, NETHERLANDS AND AUSTRALIA TO DECLARE WAR ON JAPAN THEN GERMANY DECLARED WAR ON USA WHICH BROUGHT USA INTO THE EUROPEAN WAR

Question 36

WHY DID AUSTRALIA FEEL THREATENED BY JAPAN WHEN SINGAPORE WAS INVADED

Answer 36

BECAUSE SINGAPORE WAS REGARDED AS ALMSOT IMPOSSIBLE TO INVADE AND HAD A STRONG BRITISH PRESENCE WHICH MADE AUSTRALIA FEEL PROTECTED - MEANT THERE WAS NOTHING STOPPING JAPAN FROM INVADING AUSTRALIA

Question 37

WHO DID AUSTRALIA TURN TO WHEN THEY COULD NO LONGER RELY ON BRITAIN

Answer 37

USA

Question 38

WHEN DID JAPAN LAUNCH AN ASSAULT ON DARWIN AND HOW MANY WERE KILLED

Answer 38

19 FEBRUARY 1941 | 250 KILLED