Interwar period is considered to have long term implications on whole Europe. Especially the countries indulged in the great fight of WW1. After-effects of the war put massive disasters in the region. Europeans faced a number of difficulties such as, health issues, famine, inflation, economic depression, etc. In addition, back to back insurgencies or attacks by dictators paved the way for another global war WW2.

1. Important Events during
Interwar period (1918-45)
MCQS

2. 1) In the early interwar period, the coalition of rightist groups in France joined
together in the fear of socialist opposition to run the Govt was termed as:
 Central Purge
 Bloc National
 Schlieffen Plan
 Dawes Plan
2) In Stalin’s agricultural program, Collectivization, Formers were forced to pool
their lands in Govt run-forms. The upper peasant class …………, protested this
program and lost lives of …………. People during the Reign of Terror (1929-30).
 Commons, 50 Million
 Russians nationals, 5 Million
 Protestants, 10 Million
 The Kulaks, 3 Million

3. 3) The name of German Military Plan in 1905 to handle the threat of war by two
fronts Russia and France.
 Gallipoli
 Dawes Plan
 Schlieffen Plan
 The Gestapo
4) In response to the Kellogg-Briand Pact, USSR adopted ………… along with 4
other nations, denouncing war as aspect of Foreign Policy.
 Livitinov Protocol
 Locarno pacts
 Appeasement Policy
 Beer Hall Putsch

4. 5) The doctrine of ………….. German political union with Austria by ………… ,
which effectively enabled Germany to annex that nation in March 1938.
 Anschluss, Chancellor Adolf Hitler
 Washington, Truman
 Schlieffen, Triple Alliance
 Appeasement, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain
6) The book widely read during Adolf Hitler's reign set forth future policies and
superiority of Aryan to the Jewish people was …………. and written by Adolf
Hitler (Auto-biography) in Prison during ……………..
 Extermination Camps, 1942
 Mein Kampf (My Struggle) , 1923-25
 Guernica, 1937
 Beer Hall Putsch, 1923

5. 7) The British and French policy of conceding to Adolf Hitler’s territorial demands
prior to the outbreak of World War II.
 Final solution (Wannsee Conference of January 1942)
 Lebensraum (“living space,” 1930)
 Appeasement
 Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941)
8) The code name for the U.S. government’s secret program to develop an Atomic
Bomb, on the Decision of Harry S. Truman. It finally succeeded in conducting the
first successful atomic bomb test in July 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
 Manhattan Project
 Guernica, 1937
 Beer Hall Putsch, 1923

6. 9) The agreement among Germany, Britain, Italy, and France that allowed
Germany to annex the region of western Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland.
 Locarno Pacts (A series of treaties in October 1925)
 Munich Agreement (September 30, 1938)
 Zimmermann Telegram (By Alfred Zimmermann to German ambassador to Mexico)
 Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941)
10) Hitler’s secret police, arresting and executing German citizens without warrant or
trail.
 Gestapo
 Blitzkrieg (Lightening war)
 Luftwaffe
 Black shirts

7. 11) June 6, 1944, the day on which the Allied invasion of France via the Normandy
coast began.
 End of WWII
 Day of Hiroshima atom bomb attack
 D-Day
 Hitler's death day
12) On November 9, 1923, Hitler and WWI hero General Ludendorff
attempted a small, and somewhat comic revolution known as
 Beer Hall Putsch
 Lebensraum
 Luftwaffe
 Black shirts

8. 13) The Nazi’s euphemistic term for their plan to exterminate the Jews of Germany
and other German-controlled territories during World War II.
 Wall Street Crash (1929)
 Fascism
 Final Solution
 Manchurian Crisis (1931)
14) The year in which USSR joined League of Nations and the Great purges started
by J. Stalin ……….
 1923
 1927
 1931
 1934

9. 15) WWI and WWII started and ended in the years, respectively:
 Started 1914 and ended 1945
 28 July, 1914 to 11 Nov, 1918 and 1 Sep, 1939 to 2 Sep, 1945
 No destruction please!
 All of these
16) A teen-age Serbian militant, Gavrilo Princip (armed and trained by terrorist
group Black Hand) assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Austria-Hungarian
Prince) on …………… He spent the war in prison, where he died of ………… 1918.
 28 July 1914, Heart-attack
 7 Oct 1918, Influenza
 28 June 1914, Tuberculosis
 None

10. 17) Britain invaded Gallipoli peninsula to forcefully open a strait known as ………..
Connecting Asia and Europe. Operation of a campaign, lasting from April 25, 1915,
to January 6, 1916, (loosing hundreds and thousands of lives), event is remembered
as ………..
 Bosporus, Spanish civil war (1936)
 Dardanelles, Battle of Gallipoli
 Malacca, WWI
 None
18) In November 1921, the United States convened ………., attended by Britain,
France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, China, Japan, and Portugal. The
conference resulted in Naval arrangements that set a ratio …………. For Great
Britain, the US, Japan, France, and Italy.
 Geneva Convention, 1:3:2:4:6
 Munich agreement, 1:1:1:1:1
 Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), 1:2:3:4:5
 Washington conference, 5:5:3:1.67:1.67

11. 20) Who were Allied and axis powers during WW2, Deaths in WW2, Rehearsal for
WW2, and The Yalta conference (4-11 Feb, 1945)
 (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, China to small extent)
and (Germany, Italy, and Japan) + several smaller countries on both sides.
 50-56 Million ( fatalities) + 20-28 Million in after-effects of the war (health, famine)
 Spanish Civil War (1936)
 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin discussed future of the world after WW2
19) Causalities in WW1, Central and Allies, and Event that ended WWI + heading
personalities.
 20 Million deaths and 21 Million wounded
 (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire) and (France, Great Britain,
Russia, Italy, Japan and later, the United States)
 Treaty of Versailles (28 June, 1919) + Georges Clemenceau ( PM of France), Woodrow
Wilson (President of America) and David Lloyd George (PM of Britain)

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