- 1. Which country did Neville Chamberlain's government famously appease in the Munich Agreement of 1938?
A) Soviet Union
B) Germany
C) United States
D) France
- 2. What event marked the beginning of Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement?
A) Battle of Stalingrad
B) Dunkirk evacuation
C) Munich Agreement
D) Pearl Harbor attack
- 3. Which country was invaded by Italy with little opposition from the international community due to appeasement?
A) Norway
B) Greece
C) Ethiopia
D) Poland
- 4. Who was the leader of Italy during the period when Chamberlain's government adopted appeasement policies?
A) Francisco Franco
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Adolf Hitler
D) Benito Mussolini
- 5. What did the League of Nations do in response to Italy's invasion of Ethiopia?
A) Supported the invasion
B) Imposed economic sanctions
C) Issued a formal apology
D) Military intervention
- 6. What did Germany gain as a result of the Munich Agreement?
A) Prague
B) Berlin
C) Rhineland
D) Sudetenland
- 7. Which British politician famously criticized Chamberlain's policy of appeasement as 'feeding the crocodile in the hope that it will eat you last'?
A) Anthony Eden
B) Clement Attlee
C) Winston Churchill
D) David Lloyd George
- 8. Which term refers to the foreign policy strategy of making concessions to avoid conflict, often associated with Chamberlain's government?
A) Isolationism
B) Détente
C) Containment
D) Appeasement
- 9. Which country was invaded by Germany in 1939, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe?
A) Poland
B) Spain
C) France
D) Belgium
- 10. What did Neville Chamberlain believe the Munich Agreement achieved for Britain?
A) Secure borders
B) Peace in our time
C) Economic prosperity
D) Global dominance
- 11. What impact did the policy of appeasement have on the territorial integrity of Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s?
A) Integration into Poland
B) Independence from Slovakia
C) Annexation by Hungary
D) Loss of the Sudetenland to Germany
- 12. Who was the British Prime Minister during the period when the government appeased Germany and Italy?
A) Margaret Thatcher
B) Tony Blair
C) Neville Chamberlain
D) Winston Churchill
- 13. Which of the following territories did Nazi Germany annex in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, with little response from the international community?
A) Alsace-Lorraine
B) Sudetenland
C) Rhineland
D) Danzig Corridor
- 14. In what year did Neville Chamberlain resign as Prime Minister, following the outbreak of World War II?
A) 1942
B) 1940
C) 1941
D) 1939
- 15. What was the name of the Spanish Civil War faction supported by Italy and Germany, signaling their growing military cooperation?
A) Socialists
B) Republicans
C) Anarchists
D) Nationalists
- 16. Which of the following agreements divided Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence, contributing to the onset of World War II?
A) Yalta Agreement
B) Potsdam Conference
C) Treaty of Versailles
D) Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
- 17. Who was the Soviet dictator who signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, shocking the Western allies?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Mikhail Gorbachev
D) Nikita Khrushchev
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