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(Question 1 Image: Map of Europe)

1) Which great European land empire, highlighted in this map of Europe in 1918, was broken up after WWI?
Serbian Empire
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Romanian Empire

2) When and with which Central Power was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
1919 with Germany
1919 with France
1918 with France

3) Who emerged after the Russian civil war and purges as the undisputed leader of the Soviet Union in 1927/8?
Lenin
Trotsky
Stalin

4) Which event led to the Great Depression in the 1930s?
the election of President Hoover in 1928
the Wall Street Crash
Prohibition

5) When did Mussolini become "Il Duce" - the leader of Italy?
1922
1929
1924

(Question 6 Image)

6) Which country are these soldiers preparing to defend against a German invasion in September 1939?
France
Poland
Norway

7) Which tactic, known as "Blitzkrieg" and adopted by the German army in 1939, revolutionised warfare?
the massive use of artillery
the use of tanks and air power together in mobile warfare
the deployment of great fortifications and fixed mine fields

(Question 8 Image: 'Careless Talk Costs Lives' poster

8) What does this propaganda poster warn the British public about?
A German invasion
Damage to public transport
Enemy agents

(Question 9 Image)

9) What is taking place in this photograph?
Rationing
Conscription
Evacuation

10) Which countries did Germany force to surrender in the Spring and Summer of 1940?
Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France
Great Britain, Italy, Spain and Greece
Poland, the Balkans, North Africa, and certain areas of the Soviet Union

11) In which Soviet city did the German Sixth Army surrender in February 1943?
Stalingrad
Leningrad
Moscow

12) In which battle in 1942 did the Japanese Navy lose four aircraft carriers?
Pearl Harbor
the Coral Sea
Midway