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Well well well, if it isn't the League of Nations again.

Would You Pass GCSE History Now?

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Whose assassination in Sarajevo led to the outbreak of World War One?

Lord Kitchener

Who is the man featured on this iconic poster?

The organisation was formed on 10 January 1920 after the Paris Peace Conference that followed the end of WW1.

1920

When was the League of Nations formed?

Germany paid back the final reparations loan in 2010.

Reparations

What was the name of the money Germany had to pay after WW1?

Unfortunately the Great Depression began the year after he was elected.

Herbert Hoover

Which US president said that after he was elected there would be “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage”.

Black Tuesday

What financially damaging day did the 1929 stock market crash happen on?

1933

When was Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany?

Neville Chamberlain

Which British prime minister declared he had secured "peace for our time" after a meeting in Munich in 1938?

Czechoslovakia

Which of these countries did Hitler invade first?

Stalin, Churchill, FDR

Who was present at the Yalta conference in 1945?

Berlin

Which city did the Soviet Union blockade in 1948?

The pact was signed by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.

Austria

Which of these countries was NOT involved in the 1955 Warsaw pact?

The red scare

What was Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunt better known as?

Cuba

What country did the Bay of Pigs invasion take place in?

The wall was fully dismantled by 1991 (apart from the pieces kept for historical reasons).

1989

When did the Berlin Wall fall, paving the way for German reunification?

Go back to your history books and try again.

You got a few right, but you need to go back to the history books.

You passed! You could probably do your GCSE history tomorrow!

You passed! You could definitely do your GCSE history tomorrow!

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