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Revision worksheet- Year 10 History

List the main political figures involved in the signing of the Treaty of Versailles?
Outline the conditions laid out by the Treaty of Versailles.
What does the term November Criminals refer to?
What was the Great Depression? And how did it affect Germany, the United States,
Britain, and Austria?
What was Kristallnacht?
List four characteristics of a fascist state.
What was the Weimar Republic and why did it fall?
What was the The Final Solution and how was it carried out?
Name three fascist countries (and their leaders) in Europe in the lead up to WWII.

Label the following countries on the above blank map of Europe.

Germany

The Netherlands

Britain
France
Poland
Austria

Italy
Belgium

Norway

Match the following characters to the correct information:

Adolf Hitler

Was a leader in the military that controlled Japan.

He led the Japanese army in its war with China and
became Prime Minister just before the bombing of Pearl
Harbor. He was captured, tried, and in 1948, hanged.

Benito Mussolini

Was the leader of Nazi Germanys campaign of

propaganda to instil in the German people the ideals
of the Nazi party. He controlled all forms of
communication in Germany.

Neville Chamberlain

Was a British Conservative politician who served

as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May
1937 to May 1940. He was central to Appeasement.

FDR

Robert Menzies

Hideki Tojo

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Stalin

Was the prime minister of Italy from 1922 until

his overthrow in 1943. He formed the Fascist party,
whose ideology, Fascism, called for a one-party state,
total obedience, patriotic nationalism, and aggressive
militarism. He was a close ally of German dictator Adolf
Hitler.

Was the de facto leader and dictator of the Soviet

Union from about 1928 to his death in 1953.

Was Australias longest serving Prime Minister. He

held the office twice, from 1939 to 194, during WW2,
and from 1949 to 1966.

Was an English statesman and author, best known

as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during
the Second World War. He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in
Literature for his many books on English and world
history.

Was the President of the United States when Pearl

Harbor was attacked and when we became involved
in World War II. He died in April of 1945 and Vice

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Winston Churchill

President Harry Truman took over office as the

33rd President of the United States.

Was the leader of Germany when World War II

began. During most of the war he lived underground in
a concrete shelter at his headquarters in East
Prussia. It was from here that he controlled the German
war effort.

Hitlers had three main aims- research each aim:

1. Abolish the Treaty of Versailles
2. Expand German territory
3. Defeat Communism

Write a paragraph about each of the following:

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The French Resistance

Pearl Harbour
The fall of Singapore
The Holocaust
Extermination camps
The Siege of Tobruk

Write definitions for the following terms:

Appeasement
Inflation
Bushido
Anti-Semitism
Lebensraum
Dictatorship
Axis Powers
Allied Powers

Militarism
Nationalism
Fascism