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Origins World War Two - Focus Question Two
- 1.What percentage of Japanese factories were forced to close after the Wall Street Crash 1929?
- A.
5%
- B.
15%
- C.
50%
- D.
90%
- 2.Which key Japanese industry was hit particularly hard by the Great Depression?
- A.
Coal
- B.
Silk
- C.
Oil
- D.
Diamonds
- 3.What description best describes the type of regime ruling Japan in 1931?
- A.
Constitutional monarchy
- B.
Military dictatorship
- C.
Ancien regime
- D.
Democratic republic
- 4.Which three reasons best describe Japan's reasons for attacking Manchuria in 1931?
- A.
Exisiting previous Japanese trade interests in Manchuria
- B.
Manchuria rich in resources (iron ore, coal, timber, land
- C.
Chinese calls for League of Nations sanctions against Japan
- D.
Chinese sinking of Japanese battleship at Okinawa
- E.
Lack of resources and population pressure in Japan
- 5.Which incident provoked Japanese invasion of Manchuria?
- A.
Explosion at Mukden railway blamed on Chinese nationalists
- B.
Assassination of Japanese diplomat
- C.
Chinese aggressive naval manoeuvres
- D.
Explosion at Mukden steel works
- 6.How did the League of Nations respond to China's plea for assistance?
- A.
She sent in the League of Nations task force to expel Japan from Manchuria
- B.
She imposed economic sanctions
- C.
She set a commission headed by Lord Lytton to investigate
- D.
She set a commission headed by Lord Little to investigate
- 7.What was the finding of the special commision?
- A.
The League did nothing - only condemned Japaneses aggression
- B.
Expelled Japan from the League in 1933
- C.
Ordered immediate Japanese withdrawal
- D.
Imposed economic sanctions
- 8.What was the Japanses response to the League of Nations decision?
- A.
She left the League in 1932
- B.
She left the League in 1933
- C.
She left the League in 1934
- D.
She left the League in 1933
- 9.What name did Japan give to Manchuria after she had successfully invaded?
- A.
Manukio
- B.
Manchukuo
- C.
Manducko
- D.
Mansukio
- 10.At what level was German unemployment in 1932?
- A.
1 million
- B.
3 million
- C.
6 million
- D.
10 million
- 11.In the September 1930 German general election which party became the second largest in Germany increasing its votes from 810,000 to 6.5 million?
- A.
SDP
- B.
Centre Party
- C.
KDP
- D.
Nazi party
- 12.What is the name given to the German parliament?
- A.
Reich
- B.
Reichstag
- C.
Reichmuller
- D.
Reichzuiller
- 13.What was name sometimes given to Nazi SA stormtroopers?
- A.
Black shirts
- B.
Brown shirts
- C.
Green shirts
- D.
Blue shirts
- 14.In the November 1932 election, which political party support fell by 2 million votes?
- A.
Communists
- B.
Nazi Party
- C.
SPD
- D.
Centre Party
- 15.Which president invited Hitler to the post of German Chancellor in the hope that he might restrain him?
- A.
Von Hindenberg
- B.
Von Papen
- C.
Bruning
- D.
Schlieicher
- 16.Which treaty signed in 1922 was signed by USA, British Empire, Japan, France and Italy and imposed limits on numbers of naval ships?
- A.
Washington Naval Treaty
- B.
Mississippi Naval Treaty
- C.
Chicago Naval Treaty
- D.
Boston Naval Treaty
- 17.In which year did the Disarmanent Conference begin?
- A.
1931
- B.
1932
- C.
1933
- D.
1934
- E.
1935
- 18.Which leader disrupted the Disarmanent Conference by offering to disarm his country if all the other nations agreed to do the same?
- A.
Ramsay MacDonald
- B.
Mussolini
- C.
Stalin
- D.
Hitler
- 19.Which leader was so alarmed by his Hitler’s intentions in Austria that he sent four army divisions to the Austrian border?
- A.
Mussolini
- B.
Ramsey MacDonald
- C.
Winston Churchill
- D.
Josef Stalin
- 20.What is the name given to the night of 29th June 1934 in which Hitler eliminated many political opponents?
- A.
Night of the Machine Guns
- B.
Night of the Long Knives
- C.
Night of the Short Knives
- D.
Night of the Sharp Knives
- 21.What is the name of the leader of the SA (Brown shirts) who was murdered on that evening?
- A.
Von Papen
- B.
Luddendorf
- C.
Ernst Rohm
- D.
Gregor Strasser
- 22.What is the meaning of Fuhrer?
- A.
Leader
- B.
Governor
- C.
Holy father
- D.
Sovereign
- 23.What oath did the German armed forces make in 1935?
- A.
Oath to destroy the Treaty of Versailles
- B.
Personal oath of allegiance to Hitler
- C.
Personal oath of allegiance to the Nazi Party
- D.
Personal oath of allegiance to Axis powers
- 24.What % of voters in a plebiscite staged by the League of Nations in the Saar region voted to rejoin with Germany in January 1935.
- A.
10%
- B.
25%
- C.
75%
- D.
90%
- 25.In 1935 what announcement made by the German propaganda ministry caused widespread fear and public outrage in Europe
- A.
Declaration of the “Final Solution”
- B.
Declaration that the Third Reich intended to establish lebensraum by seizing land in the east
- C.
Germany’s intention to rearm in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles
- D.
A pact of steel with the Soviet Union
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