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Which of the following statements about the causes of WWI are wrong? Put an X in the
appropriate boxes provided below.
(a) The First World War was the first international conflict in the 20th century.
(b) The Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente were formed in 1882 and 1907
respectively.
(c) Alsace-Lorraine belonged to Prussia initially.
(d) The alliance system was one of the causes of the First World War.
(e) The aim of the alliance system was to isolate Britain.
(f) The Triple Alliance consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
(g) Relations between Britain and Germany became very tense because of their
naval race.
(h) In the early 1910s, France had the most sizable army in Europe.
Study the following hints and find the related words from the table
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(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
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Worksheet 2
Answer the following questions.
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(e) Relations between Italy and France worsened because of their conflict over the control of
A Serbia.
B Tunisia.
C Morocco.
D Bosnia.
Which of the causes mentioned in Question 2 do you think was the most important one? Explain
your answer.
I think ___________________________________________________ was the most important
cause of WWI because _________________________________________________________
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Worksheet 3
Answer the following questions.
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Which of the following statements about the causes of WWI are wrong? Put an X in the
appropriate boxes provided below.
(a) Austria-Hungary annexed Albania in 1908.
(b) Bulgaria invaded Serbia after the First Balkan War in 1912.
(c) The Sarajevo Incident led to the outbreak of the Bosnian Crisis in 1908.
(d) Turkey defeated Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro in the First Balkan
War in 1912.
(e) Britain declared war on Germany when the latter invaded Belgium.
(c) Did the reception speech accurately describe the attitudes of the citizens of Sarajevo
towards the nation in the above question? Explain your answer.
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(ii)
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(iii) _____________________________________
(b) Arrange the above events chronologically, beginning from the earliest.
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(c) Which of the above events do you think was the most influential one?
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Worksheet 4
Answer the following questions.
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Italy
Britain
France
Belgium
(a) Which incident does the sport in the picture refer to?
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(b) Study the picture. Which nation did not participate in the sport in 1914? When did that
nation join the sport?
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(c) The participants were divided into two groups. What do they represent?
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Which of the following statements about the cause of WWI are wrong? Put an X in the
appropriate boxes provided below.
(a) The United States adopted the policy of neutrality and did not join the First
World War until 1917.
(b) Russia withdrew from the First World War after October Revolution.
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(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
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The First World War ended with the defeat of the Central Powers in 1918.
Germany, Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary and Russia belonged to the Central Powers.
Germany sent her submarines to attack the Allies.
Italy was a neutral country during the First World War.
(a) Which policy does the poster on the left refer to? Which country introduced this policy?
What was the aim of this policy?
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(b) Do you think this policy was successful? Explain your answer.
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(c) What was the poster on the right about? What was the relationship between these two
posters?
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(a) Which event does the above picture refer to? When did this event take place?
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(b) Which countries dominated the meeting shown in the picture above?
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(c) Which country did those countries mentioned in question (b) want to punish at the meeting?
Why?
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Worksheet 5
Answer the following questions.
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(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
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Worksheet 6
Answer the following questions.
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Which of the following statements about Fascism and Nazism are wrong? Put an X in the
appropriate boxes provided below.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(a) Whom does the passage refer to? Explain your answer with reference to the passage.
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(b) What is the meaning of the word Lebensraum? Why did the person in the passage
believed that his country needed more Lebensraum?
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(a) What does This government refer to in the passage? Explain your answer with reference to
the passage.
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(b) What does the treaty refer to in the passage? Why did many Germans believed this treaty
was unfair and harsh?
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(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
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(b)
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Worksheet 7
Answer the following questions.
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Some of the following statements are wrong? Put an X in the appropriate boxes provided
below.
(a) Japan became a totalitarian state in the 1930s.
(b) Japan began to adopt an expansionist policy towards China in the 1930s.
(c) The Great Depression (1929-33) started in Britain and spread to the United States.
(d) Britain and France were able to solve the problems caused by the First World War
successfully.
(f) There were many demonstrations in Europe during the Great Depression.
(g) France, Britain and the United States determined to stop the aggression of
Germany, Italy and Japan despite their economic difficulties.
(e) The United States became the world's largest creditor after the First World War.
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(c) Why did the man in the picture have to sell his car? Do you think this phenomenon was
common at that time?
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Worksheet 8
Answer the following questions.
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Some of the following statements about the Second World War are wrong? Put an X in the
appropriate boxes provided below.
(a) The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was the first person who
suggested the policy of appeasement.
(b) During 1921-34, the powers held four meetings to limit naval armaments.
(c) The United States never joined the League of Nations.
(d) Germany invaded Abyssinia in 1935.
(e) Germany annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939 respectively.
(f) In 1931, Japan attacked Manchuria in northeast China.
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(c) What policy did he adopt towards Germany in the 1930s? Do you think his policy was
successful?
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State the reasons for the failure of the League of Nations to keep peace.
(a) ________________________________________________________________________
(b) ________________________________________________________________________
(c) ________________________________________________________________________
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Worksheet 9
Answer the following questions.
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Some of the following statements about the Second World War are wrong? Put an X in the
appropriate boxes provided below.
(f) The United Nations replaced the League of Nations as the new international
peacekeeping organization in 1945.
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(b) (i) Hitler's suicide
(ii) Atomic bombing of Nagasaki
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(iv)
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Worksheet 10
Answer the following questions.
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Some of the following statements about the Cold War are wrong? Put an X in the appropriate
boxes provided below.
(a) The Cold War was caused by strategic and ideological differences between the
capitalist bloc and the communist bloc.
(b) The capitalist bloc and the communist bloc were led by Britain and the Soviet
Union respectively.
(c) The capitalist bloc supported public ownership.
(d) The Berlin Blockade led to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
in 1949.
(e) Mao Zedong proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of China in 1950.
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Classify the following nations into different camps according to their political systems.
Nations
Britain
France
North Korea
Switzerland
West Germany
Canada
East Germany
Portugal
Spain
Italy
Australia
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Worksheet 11
Answer the following questions.
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Some of the following statements about the Cold War are wrong? Put an X in the appropriate
boxes provided below.
(a) General MacArthur led the North Korean Forces during the Korean War.
(b) President Kennedy of the United States supported the installation of missiles
in Cuba.
(c) Khrushchev was the leader of Cuba.
(d) North Vietnam and South Vietnam signed an armistice in 1975.
(e) Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union.
(f) The Cold War ended with the breakup of West Germany in 1990.
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(ii)
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(iii) ____________________________
(iv) ____________________________
The following questions are based on the passage below.
The United States discovered that the Soviet Union had built missile bases in Cuba. President
Kennedy of the United States ordered a naval blockade of Cuba. It was likely that a nuclear
war would break out between the two superpowers. The Soviet Union made concessions and
withdrew her missiles from Cuba
(a) Which incident does the passage refer to? When did the incident happen? Which countries
were involved in this incident?
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(a) Why did President Kennedy order the blockade of Cuba?
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Suggested Answers:
Worksheet 1
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(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
LORRAINE
ALSACE
FRANCE
PRUSSIA
(a) Germany.
(b) France. France was Germany's enemy because France was defeated by Prussia in the
Franco-Prussian War (1970-71). France was forced to cede Alsace-Lorraine to Germany
after the war.
(c) The alliance system. The alliance system isolated France during 1871-1904.
(d) Bismarck.
The armaments race started after the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). Many European powers
were engaged in the armaments race because they thought that military might could ensure their
national security.
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(a) C
(b) B
(c) A
(d) D
(e) B
(a) The Alliance System
(b) The Armaments Race
(c) Economic and Colonial Rivalries
(d) Extreme Nationalism
Free response.
Worksheet 3
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Worksheet 4
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(d), (f)
(a) It refers to the U-boat campaign of Germany. Germany claimed that her submarines would
attack any ships sailing to Britain. Germany wanted to stop Britain from getting food and
armaments from other countries.
(b) This policy was not successful. Germany could not defeat Britain with this U-boat
campaign. It led to the U.S. entry into the First World War when German submarines sank
U.S. ships.
(c) The poster on the right is about the recruitment of soldiers in the United States during the
First World War. The U-boat campaign of Germany urged the United States to declare war
on Germany because the U-boat campaign threatened the safety of her ships.
(a) It refers to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference. It took
place in June 1919.
(b) The United States, France and Britain.
(c) Germany. They believed Germany had started the First World War.
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Finland
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Worksheet 5
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(a) (iv)
(b) (i) He introduced public ownership.
(ii) He controlled industries, economy and trade.
(iii) He ordered farmers to give most of their products to the government.
(c) Picture (ii) Stalin.
(d) (i) He introduced three Five-Year Plans.
(ii) He introduced agricultural collectivization.
Worksheet 6
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(b)
(c)
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Worksheet 7
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Worksheet 8
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Worksheet 9
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(b)
(c)
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(a)
(b)
Worksheet 10
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Nations
Britain
France
North Korea
Switzerland
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West Germany
Canada
East Germany
Portugal
Spain
Italy
Australia
Worksheet 11
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