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Land war strategy resulting from the Battle of the Marne during WWI
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WWI Test
World War One Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| These were paid by Germany after WWI to pay for damages caused during the war | Reparations |
| Land war strategy resulting from the Battle of the Marne during WWI | Trench Warfare |
| What is an armistice? | Cease fire agreement |
| What naval strategy was used by the Germans and would later draw the US into war? | Unrestricted Submarine Warfare |
| This was used to encourage support for the war. | Propaganda |
| What country was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand? | Serbia |
| When was the US involved in WWI? | Near the end |
| What group wanted the U.S. to stay neutral during WWI? | Pacifists, Parents and Immigrants |
| Which of the following was NOT a direct cause of the US involvement in WWI? | Sinking of the Lusitania |
| New markets, stronger military, and the superiority of American culture describes what term? | Imperialism |
| The institution of what system allowed the U.S. to build an army? | Selective Service |
| What impact did the American troops have on the Allies? | Positive impact on morale |
| What was not an item of Wilson's 14 points after WWI? | Self-determination of Africa |
| Who lost land as a result of the Treaty of Versailles? | Russia |
| Which of the following nations had the least amount of war casualties? | U.S.A. |
| What was another name for WWI? | The Great War |
| What was the name of the Treaty ending WWI? | Treaty of Versailles |
| All of the following were new weapons used during WWI EXCEPT: | Atom Bomb |
| Before World War I Alliance that included Great Britain, France,and Russia. | Triple Entente |
| The region of France that became a bloody stalemate. | Western Front |
| Germany’s battle strategy that called for a quick defeat of France, then attacking Russia. | Schlieffen Plan |
| Battle strategy in which soldiers fought from deep pits dug into the earth. | Trench Warfare |
| New weapon that caused choking, blindness, and death. | Mustard Gas |
| One-sided information used by a government to persuade the public. | Propaganda |
| Who was the ruler of Germany during WWI | Kaiser Wilhelm |
| The Zimmerman telegram was an attempt to form... | an alliance between Germany and Mexico |
| Battle strategy in which soldiers fought from deep pits dug into the earth | Trench warfare |
| Alliance that included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy | Triple Alliance |
| Stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border | Eastern Front |
| An agreement to stop fighting | Armistice |
| The region of Europe called a "powder keg" because it was so volatile | The Balkans |
| This was sent to Mexico hoping it would ally itself with Germany against the US | Zimmerman Telegram |
| Armored combat vehicle used for first time in WW1 | Tank |
| The policy of keeping a large army and glorifying war | Militarism |
| America's president who kept us out of the war until 1917 | Woodrow Wilson |
| New warship introduced by Germany that used undersea torpedoes | U-boat |
| Government system of allowing only small amounts of items to be bought | Rationing |
| Leader of Russia up until 1917 | Czar Nicholas II |
| Four major causes of WW1 | M.A.I.N (Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism) |
| Creating friendships between countries | Alliances |
| Building Empires | Imperialism |
| One's love for their country | Nationalism |
| What were Wilson's 14 points? | 1. no secret treaties 2. freedom of the seas 3. low tariffs promote free trade 4. countries should reduce arms 5. interest of colonial people |
| What was the Multi-national body to keep peace located in the U.S. that the countries could bring their problems to sort problems out | The League of Nations |
| What created national boundaries by establishing 9 new nations, shifting boundaries of other nations, and carving out part of the ottoman empire to create colonies in the middle east for Britain and France? | Treaty of Versailles |
| What were some of the weaknesses of the Treat of Versailles | Harsh to Germany, USSR lost territory, no self-determination for colonies. |
| What country wanted land along the Adriatic sea? (Vittorio Orlando) | Italy |
| What were the four provisions for the Treaty of Versailles | TMFG (Territory, Military, Financial, and Guilt) |
| Territory | Took all of Germany's countries |
| Military | Reduced Germany's military to less than 100,000 soldiers (no air force, no submarines, and only 6 ships) |
| Financial | Germany had to pay war reparations |
| Guilt | War Guilt Clause |
| Term meaning that the people (Germans) repay for all of the damage they did. | Reparations |
| Which country wanted to punish Germany by making them pay billions in war reparations, and by trying German officials for war crimes? (David Lloyd George) | Britain |
| Which country wanted to punish Germany and strip them of all military? (Georges Clemenceau) | France |
| Which country believed that diplomacy was necessary? (Woodrow Wilson) | America |
| Term for a ruler that was in absolute control over the country | Autocrat |
| Another name for the parliament that Nicholas II was forced to accept | Duma |
| What is the theory that nothing should be privately owned and that everything should be commonly owned | Communism |
| (The social democrat workers party) a group of people that believed that the royal family should be overthrown and communism introduced. took all the wealth for themselves | Bolsheviks |
| A powerful council elected by the workers, soldiers and peasants | Soviets |
| Wrote "Communist Manifesto" (outlined the perfect form of government = no inequality) | Karl Marx |
| Exile man from Russia that studied the Communist Manifesto. Wanted to abolish all class distinction and religion | Vladimir I Lenin |
| Autocrat that ruled with an iron fist | Czar Nicholas II |
| Cousins of Nicholas II that were the rulers of Germany and England | Kaiser Wilhelm II and King George V |
| What jobs were most Russian soldiers forced to have? | Farming, and factory working |
| How many soldiers were lost during WW1? | 1.8 million |
| a crazy monk that was born as a poor farmer and studied religion. He believed that the more you sinned the easier you were saved. Addicted to Opium | Rasputin |
| March 1917- food riots, strikes, and demands for representation that reestablished the Duma. Czar Nicholas abdicated | March Revolution |
| Reds (Bolsheviks) Whites (Mensheviks) - Britain, France, USA, Japan | Lenin & the Bolsheviks won and reorganized into the soviet Union |
| Swedish chemist who became famous for his promotion of international peace. He established the Nobel Peace prize in his will. | Albert Nobel |
| German system of alliances created by Bismarck to prevent French attack and maintain the balance of power. | Bismarck’s System |
| Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary; the formation of pre-World War I German foreign policy | Dual Alliance |
| Clause in the Treaty of Versailles that placed the blame for World War I on the Germans | War Guilt Clause |
| Treaty of St. Germain | treaty between Austria and the Allied Powers of World War I |
| Demilitarized | an area in which no military troops may ever be present in |
| Treaty of Sevres | treaty between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied Powers of World War I; dismantled the Ottoman Empire |
| Mandates | territories technically under the control of the League of Nations but administered by various Allied countries |
| League of Nations | It was a post-world war one international organization created to guarantee international peace and cooperation. |
| Charles Dawes | An American banker who formed a committee in 1924 to deal with Germany’s financial situation and how they could pay the reparations. They lended money to Germany and let Germany pay the payments over a longer period of time. |
| Locarno Pact | 1925 treaty in which Germany agreed to recognize it post-World War I boundaries as permanent |
| Disarmament | elimination of weapons or arms |
| Washington Naval Conference | the 1922 conference that limited the number of warships that each maritime nation could build; made a ratio to limit the number of large warships |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | document that outlawed war; crowning effort to preserve peace in the post-World War I period |
| Lusitania | It was a British ocean liner that was sunk by a German submarine in 1915. |
| How and why did the Battle of the Marne affect the Schlieffen Plan? | France stopped the German advance. Germany was forced to fight a two front war. |
| What was significant about the Second Battle of Ypres? | Chemical warfare was ever used. British has no idea what to do. |
| Why did Russia leave the war? | They had the Bulchivic Revolution going on during the war. |
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