WWI
Whose assassination sparked WWI?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
Name three nations who were founding members of the League of Nations?
Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, the British Empire, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Italy, Liberia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia/Iran, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Siam, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Luxembourg, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, the Irish Free State, Ethiopia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Turkey, Iraq, the Soviet Union, Afghanistan, and Ecuador .
Which industry in 1920s USA perfected the 'production line' technique?
The Automobile industry (Ford)
Which economic theory was dominant at the beginning of the Great Depression?
laissez-faire capitalism
What was 'Anschluss'?
The union of Germany and Austria
What was the name of the alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia?
Triple Entente
Name 2 major nations who were NOT members of the League of Nations when it was founded?
Germany, USA, USSR
What form of purchasing grew dramatically in the 1920s allowing ordinary people to buy labour saving devices and dramatically increase consumer demand?
Credit
What was the name of the shanty towns that developed in the USA as a result of homelessness caused by the Great Depression?
Hoovervilles
What was 'lebensraum'?
Living space
Which member of the Triple Alliance (Central Powers) eventually fought for the Entente side?
Italy
Which nation ignored League censure and request during its occupation of Corfu?
Italy
The 1920s saw a flowering of African-American arts in a particular area of New York City, giving its name to this artistic movement?
The Harlem Renaissance
When was 'Black Tuesday'?
29th October 1929
What was 'Gross Deutschland'?
Joining all the areas of German language, ethnicity and heritage to Germany to form a 'greater Germany', whether they had previously been part of Germany or not.
What was the name of the peace treaty between Germany and Russia ending the war on the eastern front in March 1918?
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Which nation walked out of the League of Nations in march 1933 as a result of the Lytton Report?
Japan
Which American aviator became a worldwide celebrity during the 1920s after he flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Charles Lindberg
What was the peak unemployment rate in the USA during the Great Depression?
25% or 15 million people
Who allied with Hitler in 'The Pact of Steel'?
Benito Mussolini and Italy
According to the Treaty of Versailles, how much did Germany have to pay in reparations?
132 billion gold marks/US$33 billion/6.6 billion pounds sterling
Which crisis involving action or inaction by the League of Nations acted as a distraction for Hitler to remilitarise the Rhineland?
The Abyssinia Crisis/ Italian invasion of Abyssinia
Which industry, that had been heavily subsidised during WWI prompting its practitioners to invest significantly in new technology, was the first to feel the impacts of the Great Depression.
Agriculture or farming
Which piece of US legislation compounded the Great Depression by hindering foreign trade?
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Where had Hitler declared all of his foreign policy ambitions a decade before he came to power?
In his autobiography, 'Mein Kampf'