Year 9 End of Year Fact Test

Question 1

Who was the man behind the propaganda campaign in WW1?

Answer 1

Lord Kitchener

Question 2

Who made up the Triple Alliance in the first world war?

Answer 2

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

Question 3

What was the name of the group behind the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

Answer 3

Black Hand Gang

Question 4

Where did the murder of Franz Ferdinand take place?

Answer 4

Sarajevo

Question 5

What was it called when friends could sign up for WW1 together?

Answer 5

Pals Battalions

Question 6

What was the name of the plan when Germany tried to attack France through Belgium in the first world war?

Answer 6

Schlieffen Plan

Question 7

When was the Battle of the Somme?

Answer 7

1st July 1916

Question 8

Who was the commander of the British Army of the Western Front from 1915-1918?

Answer 8

Douglas Haig

Question 9

What year was the Treaty of Versailles signed?

Answer 9

1919

Question 10

Which country was invaded by Germany in 1939 that caused Britain to declare war on them?

Answer 10

Poland

Question 11

What was the code name for the plan to evacuate British and French troops from Dunkirk?

Answer 11

Operation Dynamo

Question 12

What does Blitzkrieg mean?

Answer 12

Lightening War

Question 13

What was the Blitz?

Answer 13

The German bombing of British cities

Question 14

What was the name of the German Airforce?

Answer 14

Luftwaffe

Question 15

What was the name of the Operation which D-Day was a part of?

Answer 15

Overlord

Question 16

When did the USA declare war on Japan’s ally, Germany?

Answer 16

11-Dec-41

Question 17

What is the name of the ideology which centres around the government owning everything?

Answer 17

Communism

Question 18

What was the name of the policy put forward by President Truman to stop the spread of Communism?

Answer 18

Containment (Truman Doctrine)

Question 19

Which country helped North Korea fight the UN?

Answer 19

China

Question 20

What military organisation was formed in 1949 to combat the threat of Communism?

Answer 20

NATO

Question 21

What was built in 1969 to stop the spread of capitalism into East Germany?

Answer 21

Berlin Wall

Question 22

What was the name of Gorbachev’s policy to allow other political parties?

Answer 22

Glasnost

Question 23

What was the name of the first satellite launched into space by the USSR in 1957?

Answer 23

Sputnik

Question 24

Which US mission put men on the moon in 1969?

Answer 24

Apollo 11

Question 25

Which side used guerrilla warfare in Vietnam?

Answer 25

Vietcong

Question 26

What method did the Vietcong use to escape US attempts to search for and destroy them?

Answer 26

Tunnels

Question 27

Who was the leader of communist North Vietnam in 1950s?

Answer 27

Ho Chi Minh

Question 28

What did President Eisenhower call his theory that suggested if South Vietnam fell to communism, all of the East Asian countries would follow.

Answer 28

Domino Theory

Question 29

When did violence against the Jews in Germany begin?

Answer 29

  1933

Question 30

In what year did the mas deportation of German Jews to concentration and death camps begin?

Answer 30

1941