10. THE SECOND WORLD WAR

1.             What was the function of League of Nations?

2.             What was the Diktat. Long explanation.

3.             What were the effects of the Great Depression?

4.             Name the factors that increased world tensions in the 1930s.

5.             Explain the protectionism during the Great Depression.

6.             What did the Treaty of Versailles say about German Rhineland?

7.             What was Hitler’s first measure that broke the Treaty of Versailles?

8.             What were the objectives of expansionist countries in the 1930s?

9.             Explain the policy of appeasement.

10.         What actions could League of Nations enforce?

11.         What countries abandoned the League of Nations? Write them in chronological order.

12.         What Tintin’s adventure occurs during Japanese invasion of Manchuria? Investigate it. Maybe four points.

13.         What is the present day name of Abyssinia?

14.         When was the battle of Adwa? Investigate it.

15.         Fill in this chart.

 

Date	Attacker	Invaded country
1931
	Mussolini
		Czechoslovakia

 

16.         What was the Sudetenland?

17.         Explain fully the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

18.         What event began the Second World War?

19.         What countries were swallowed by the USSR in 1939? Look at the drawing.

20.         What were the opposing sides in the Second World War?

21.         What were the Axis Powers?

22.         What were the Allied Powers?

23.         Explain the blitzkrieg.

24.         What countries were occupied by Germany between 1939 and 1941?

25.         What was the main objective of the Afrika Korps. Investigate it.

26.         Explain the attack on Pearl Harbor.

27.         Look at the left map. What European countries were neutral during Second World War?

28.         Look at the left map. What European countries were Axis allies during Second World War?

29.         Look at the left map. What Mediterranean islands were British colonies during Second World War?

30.         Look at the left part. What part of Czechoslovakia was annexed to the Third Reich?

31.         What was the Anschluss. Investigate it.

32.         The battle of Stalingrad was an allied decisive victory. Explain it.

33.         Where and when was the Afrika Korps defeated? Explain it.

34.         What naval battle was the end of the high tide of Japanese expansion?

35.         Look at the right map. What two large islands are near from Guadalcanal?

36.         What year was the Italian peninsula invaded?

37.         Explain the Normandy Landings.

38.         When did the Second World War end in Europe?

39.         When did the Second World War end in Asia?

40.         What were the reasons for Japan’s surrender?

41.         Explain the Franco-Hitler meeting in Hendaye.

42.         What internal problems prevented the Spanish participation in the Second World War? Name them.

43.         What was the Spanish maquis? Investigate it.

44.         What was the worst internal problem? Give your opinion.

45.         Spain was a non-belligerent country during the Second World War. How did Franco support Nazi Germany?