Pre-World War 1
The meeting of imperial powers that divided Africa amongst the European powers
The Berlin Conference of 1885
The weapon Germany used to sink British ships in the Atlantic
U-boats
The treaty that ended World War 1 for Germany:
Versailles (1919)
The first nation Germany attacked in Europe, which started World War 2:
Poland
World War 2 in the Pacific started when Japan attacked this US naval base in Hawaii:
Pearl Harbor
Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. What was Princip's nationality?
Serbian
The year of the armistice in the Western Front:
1918
The pandemic that struck the world after the end of World War 1:
Influenza
Auschwitz and other extermination camps built and operated by the Nazis were the symbol of this monstrous policy:
The Holocaust
The largest naval battle in history occurred here, in 1944:
Leyte Gulf
The Triple Alliance, The Triple Entente
The bloodiest battle in British history, this occurred in 1916 on a French river in Northeast France:
The Battle of the Somme
US President Woodrow Wilson proposed the creation of this organization to prevent the outbreak of another war in the scale of World War 1. (Spoiler alert: they failed.)
The League of Nations
The decisive battle of the war in the Eastern Front, where it showed that the Germans can be beaten completely:
Stalingrad
The major weapons used in the Battle of Midway, where the US beat Japan:
Aircraft carriers
France lost this war earlier to Prussia, which led to them wanting to gain their territory back from the newly-formed German Empire in 1871
Franco-Prussian War
The two groups of nations DURING the war:
The Allies and the Central Powers
The name of the democratic government established in Germany after World War 1:
Weimar Republic
Enumerate the wartime leaders of the Allied nations:
Winston Churchill (UK), Joseph Stalin (USSR), Franklin Roosevelt (US)
What did the fall of Singapore signify?
The imperial powers were weak and can actually be beaten.
Explain the positives and negatives of the alliance system, as shown in World War 1.
Protection guaranteed by alliances, but wars also start easily
Consequences of World War 1:
Territorial changes
Collapse of empires (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia)
A democratic Germany
The agreement between the British and the French that divided Western Asia (Middle East):
The Sykes-Picot Agreement
Why did the British and French evacuate via Dunkirk?
The Germans surprised them with a movement that surrounded the Allies and forced them to flee by sea.
What made the US use atomic weapons in place of invading Japan?
The huge number of casualties in Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and the potential number of people who will be killed in case of an invasion