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What would happen if?

1. There were no different ideologies such as ethnic, religious beliefs.

a. Many people would have died and many wars would have occurred.

b. Life would have been much better and there would be no chance for wars to occur.

c. Tension between countries would have increased.

2. The major important events of the 20th century were not recorded.

a. We would not be able to know how life would have changed.

b. It won’t be easy to recognize if the changes would have been for better or worse.

c. All of the above.

3. The British trenches were very strong and well-constructed.

a. It would have been as dangerous as the enemy trenches.

b. The spread of diseases and deaths would have decreased.

c. Soldiers would have died in the muddy trenches.

4. Ms. Beechey did not allow her children to join the war.

a. She would not have been recognized by the dignitaries.

b. She would not have faced the grief of losing her children.

c. All of the above.

5. Kitchener did not create the Pal Battalions.

a. Many families would have faced the same grief.

b. Britain would have lost the battle of Somme.

c. Germany had no chance to win the Battle of Somme.

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6. The black Hand Gang did not recruit Gavrillo Princip.

a. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand would have been easy.

b. The Black Hand Gang would not have achieved the plan of the assassination.

c. Franz Ferdinand would have been an easy target to kill.

7. The French remained hostile to the Germans over their loss of Alsac-Lorraine.

a. Tension between the 2 countries would have increased and a bigger war would have

occurred.

b. No chance for wars to happen between France and Germany.

c. All of the above.

8. None of the European heads of state were related by blood or marriage.

a. No chance for wars to occur and peace would have spread all over Europe.

b. The event of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassination would have shattered the

peace.

c. Austria-Hungary would have declared war on Serbia.

9. The number of volunteers increased to join the war in Britain.

a. No call ups would not have been sent to people at the age between 18-40.

b. No chance for a miserable life for the conscientious objectors.

c. All of the above.

10. Slavery did not end in 1865.

a. The KKK organization would have been stablished.

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b. African Americans would not have been introduced to violence and intimidation.

c. Over four million members would have joined the KKK.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Choose the best situation that goes along with event:

1. Between 1900 and 1920, 14 million immigrants arrived in the USA, what was the
reaction of the USA:
a. They adopted a quota system.
b. All the immigrants lived the same style of life.
c. They designed laws to allow more immigrants.
2. The KKK grew rapidly during the 1920s.
a. They used violence and intimidation to get what they wanted.
b. Their beliefs promoted fairness for all the immigrants.
c. It was normal for African Americans to marry from White women.
3. Houses called tenements were common for immigrants who settled in New York.
a. Tenements were high rental apartments building often of high quality.
b. Tenements were overcrowded and helped make tuberculosis one of the main causes
of death.
c. Tenements were poor low rented apartment with very good sanitation system.
4. Four of six great empires that started the war – Germany, Austria – Hungary, Russia
and the Ottoman had disappeared from the map of Europe.
a. They were not replaced by other countries.
b. They were replaced by other countries that became independent.
c. The lands became controlled by the Great Powers.
5. Austria – Hungar went to war to keep its empire safe. It was worried that nationalities
within its boarders such as, the Poles, Czech, Serbs wanted their independency.
a. Austria – Hungary won the war and the countries became independent.
b. Austria-Hungary lost the war and many countries had their independency.
c. Austria-Hungary lost the war but was very strong to keep the countries under its
empire.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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Fill in the following organisers:

1.
..The assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand...

3 causes of
WW1

.. Militarism/ Nationalism .. .Alliance/ Imperialism..

2. ..They wanted to stop the Black Americans From

voting and to take part in the political life...

The main
aims of
the KKK

.They wanted to control

immigration.
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3.
..France.. ..Germany..

..Britain..
The Great ...USA....
Powers in
1919

Answer the following questions:

1.

- Slavery ended in 1865 and immediately an organization was stablished. What was the name
of this organization and do you think it was a fair organization? Support your answer with
evidence.

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The KKK. It was and unfair organization. They supported violence and intimidation.
They also created quotas to control immigration.
- Sacco and Vanzetti were two famous Italians who faced a miserable end to their life. Do you
think Sacco and Vanzetti were two guilty men or not? Support your answer with evidence.
Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian Americans who were trying to call for their rights and
their friend’s rights after it was said that he committed suicide. They started carrying guns to
protect themselves and talk to people and then they were arrested for murders and
robberies then they were executed.

2.

Germany was not invited to the Palace of Versailles and they had to accept all the terms
created by the other countries. Mention what the terms were created by Britain and France. Do you
think the treaty was fair to the Germans?

1. France wanted harsh punishment for Germany and to pay for all the damages during WW1 and
to turn back Alsac-Lorine.
2. Britain wanted Germany to be punished regarding Military only and not to affect the Economy
as there are many trades between them.
3. USA was calling for peace.

Founding of the Nazi Party

The Nazi Party was founded as the German Workers’ Party by Anton Drexler, a Munich
locksmith, in 1919. Hitler attended one of its meetings that year, and before long his energy
and oratorical skills would enable him to take over the party, which was renamed National
Socialist German Workers’ Party in 1920. That year Hitler also formulated a 25-point program
that became the permanent basis for the party. The program called for German abandonment
of the Treaty of Versailles and for the expansion of German territory. These appeals for national
aggrandizement were accompanied by a strident anti-Semitic rhetoric. The party’s socialist

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orientation was basically a demagogic gambit designed to attract support from the working
class. By 1921 Hitler had ousted the party’s other leaders and taken over.
The history of the Nazi Party after 1934 can be divided into two main phases. The years
between 1934 and 1938 were used by the party to establish virtual total control of all political,
social, and cultural activities in Germany. This phase began in earnest with the death of
Hindenburg on August 2, 1934. The functions of the military and government were subsumed
into the party, and all troops and officials were forced to take the oath of fidelity to Hitler
personally. The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between
1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million
Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.

Read the article and answer the following questions:

1. Germany was one of the countries affected by the Great depression in USA. Mention
how Germany was affected by the depression?
Germany had the second economic collapse as businesses were forced to pay the
money back. Banks went bust and many savers lost everything. The Nazi Party began to
get many more votes as people looked for new solutions.
2. Genocide is one of the strategies used by the Nazis and the members of the KKK
mention how did both parties use Genocide?
The KKK wanted to get rid of the African Americans and limit their immigration.
The Nazi Party wanted to get rid of all the German Jews.

3. The beginning of the Nazis party and the KKK was totally different mention the reasons
why the Nazis and the KKK were established.
The Nazi Party was founded as the German Workers’ Party by Anton Drexler. Although it
was marginalized at the beginning, it became very famous after the second collapse that
happened in the USA. The Nazis wanted to support unemployed people.

The KKK was established immediately after ending Slavery in the USA and it was mainly
created to stop African Americans from getting the votes and to oppose the immigration
to USA.

Choose the correct answer and write its corresponding (a, b, or c) in the table below:
1. A\an ………….. is a coalition of countries agreeing to work together for the same aims.

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a. alliance b. rival c. group

2. An agreement to stop fighting is called …………………

a. Navy b. armistice c. call up

3. A ……………. is a poor building with low sanitation that the US immigrants used to live in.

a. Agitator b. tenement c. pillbox

4. A pillbox is a ………………. Shelter to weapons.

a. plastic b. sand c. concrete

5. A …………………… is a court of justice to the military soldiers.

a. tribunal b. trial c. solitary confinement

6. The …………………… empire expanded to North Africa, Middle east and the Balkans.

a.British empire b. German empire c. Ottoman empire

7. To injure and not to kill is called ………………….

a. incomplete b. incapacitate c. maim

8. A political ……………. Is the person who can stir up public opinion.

a.leader b. immigrant c. agitator

9. …………………….. is when immigrants were brought ashore by a ship.

a.Disembarked b. refugee c. migrant

10. A person who was killed or injured in a war is called a …………………..

a.tribunal b. casualty c. battalion

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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What are the effects of?

1. World wars. (Answers will vary but these are the keywords)

Millions of deaths, grieving families and injured soldiers, economic collapse (depression) hit the
great powers specifically, unemployment increased, spread of diseases, refugees and
immigrants who left their countries hoping for better chances, the European map changed after
the collapse of the great European empires and finally the world had to pay for the war cost.

2. Pals’ battalions.

Many British families of the same communities lost their sons, husbands or fathers for ex. Mrs
Beechey and her sons.

3. The Treaty of Versailles

Germany was forced to pay for the war reparations, got military and naval forces restrictions
and had to return back all the lands that were once under the German empire rule.

4. The great empires collapsed after WW1. (Answers will vary here are the key words)

The US depression had severe outcomes on Britain and Germany after WW1 as unemployment
rate grew rapidly, businesses failed, banks were bankrupt, people protested against pay
cuts\wages decrease, people had to wait in lines for free food.

5. The conscientious objectors.

The government had to take quick actions towards the objectors so that the number would not
increase, they forced the objectors to go to the battlefield and carry out other tasks while the
absolutists were tortured, imprisoned alone and sentenced to death.

What is the cause of?

1. Many families of the same community lost their sons, husbands or fathers.

Pals Battalions

2. The American Senate refused to join the League of Nations.

They were afraid of joining so that the USA would have to fight for any of the allied countries.

3. Around 14 million immigrants arrived in the US between the 1900s and 1920s.

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The USA created a quota system to limit the increasing number of immigrants and choose
specific countries over others.

4. The spreading of Tuberculosis that caused many deaths in the early 20th century in the USA.

The cause that helped in its spreading was the large number of immigrants living in tenements
with poor sanitation.

5. The Nazi party began to get so many votes in Germany.

Germany was punished after the treaty of Versailles, banks were bankrupt, money savers lost
their money and they were furious about this as Germany faced two major economic collapses
in five years, that is when people started to vote for the Nazis searching for other solutions.

Put ( T ) of ( F ) and correct the false word in the box below.

1. In 1969, the USSR won the space race.

2. The Pals battalions of WWI were specially created of British men who enlisted together with
their friends and neighbors.

3. Imperialism is building up armed forces and getting ready for wars.

4. The conscientious objectors were willing to join the army and fight in WW1.

5. At first, each British battalion had six machine guns.

6. Gas attacks were first used by the French army.

7. Tanks were slow, unreliable but were able to destroy barbed wires.

8. George Clemenceau wanted to punish Germany but they had economic affairs.

9. Germany had to accept the guilt of war after the London Treaty.

10. The song ‘Brother, can you spare a dime’ was popular in Germany during the depression.

11. High employment rates were one of the effects of the depression on the USA.

12. Soup kitchens were places that offer food for the poor in the USA.

13. In 1930, taxes were cut in the US to help the American society stand on its own feet.

14. Hooverville appeared after president Wilson.

15. USA lend Germany money to help it recover in 1924 and Germany returned it.

1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F

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USA MILITARISM REFUSED TWO

7. T 8. F 9. F 11. F 12. T

DAVID LLOYD TREATY OF UNEMPLOYMENT

VERSAILLES

13. T 14. F 15. F

HOOVER COULDN’T
RETURN

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