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History 4/21/26
Unit 7 World War I
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| After the French victotry at the First Battle of the Marne, what characterized war on the Western Front? | Trench warfare and stalemate |
| What military technology was first used at the Battle of the Somme? | Tanks |
| What led the United States to join the Great War? | Germany's submarine warfare |
| The Treaty of Versailles created what international diplomatic assembly? | The League of Nations |
| The Ottomans justified murdering and exiling Christian Armenians by saying they were traitors. Why? | Because some Armenians were aiding enemy Russians |
| In the Balfour Declaration, Britain agreed to help what displaced people establish a "national home"? | Jews |
| What event sparked WWI? | Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| How were most European nations drawn into a war that, at first, involved only two adversaries? | alliances (that tied them down to help other countries) |
| What were German submarines called? | U-Boats |
| Who was responsible for the Armenian genocide? | Ottoman leaders |
| How did the Bolsheviks affect Russia's involvement in WWI? | They promised immediate peace and withdrew from the war. |
| Who fought against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War? | White movement |
| Chinese students protested the Treaty of Versailles because it gave Chinese land to what nation? | Japan |
| What did opposing armies do when they reached a stalemate on the Western Front? | They basically went all out and did everything they could, I think they also went into NO MAN'S LAND |
| What motivated Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Franz Ferdinand? | He believed Austria-Hungary had no right to rule Bosnia |
| Who, after discovering radium, promoted the use of x-rays in field hospitals? | Marie Curie (I think) |
| How did the Ottomans' entry into WWI expand the conflict? | Opening new fronts across the Middle East, Caucaus, and Gallipoli (I guess it just made more battles they had to fight) |
| In 1915, a German U-Boat sank what British passenger ship with American civilians onboard? | RMS Lusitania |
| What was the impact of the Zimmerman Telegram? | It basically was the turning point where U.S. decided to join the war. The telegram told US leaders that Germany was going to ally with Mexico |
| What did the Mandate System authorize? | authorized advanced nations to rule other territories until the advanced leaders felt the people were ready to govern themselves |
| How did the Russian Revolution change government in Russia? | Abolished centuries of czarist autocracy, made it communist, Soviet Union creation |
| artillery | large field guns that fire high-explosive shells |
| armistice | an agreement to end hostilities |
| mobilize | prepare troops for war |
| annex | incorporated into its territory |
| stalemate | a situation in which neither side can defeat the other |
| total war | complete mobilization of all resources, including human resources |
| authoritarianism | a political system characterized by a powerful leader and limited individual freedoms |
| deportation | removal (of people from a country probably) |
| neutrality | not taking sides |
| Eastern Front | the major conflict during both World War I and World War II, primarily involving battles between Germany (and its allies) and Russia/the Soviet Union |
| Western Front | the main, 400-mile-long theater of conflict in World War I, stretching from the Swiss border to the North Sea, where Allied forces (France, Britain, US) fought against Germany |
| reparations | money or goods paid to cover wartime damages |
| trench warfare | a type of warfare in which soldiers fight from long ditches that are fortified by barbed wire. |
| self-determination | the process by which a people forms its own state and chooses its own government |
| expatriate | a person who chooses to live outside of their home country |
| shell shocck | a mental health condition resulting from exposure to warfare |
| countercultural | relating to styles and traditions that run counter to those of mainstream society |
| pandemic | a worldwide outbreak of infectious disease |
| Gavrillo Princip | 19 yo Serbian/Bosnian nationalist who believed that Austria-Hungary had no right to rule Bosnia |
| Francis Ferdinand | heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, assassinated |
| Franz Joseph II | ruled Austria-Hungary |
| William II | Germany's emporer |
| Woodrow Wilson | US president, maintained neutrrality before declaring war on Germany |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | an African-American scholar, journalist, and social reformer who helped organize the first formal Pan-African Congress in 1919 in Paris |
| Otto Von Bismark | German unification |
| Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
| Triple Entente | France, Russia, and Britain |
| Allies | an international coalition primarily led by the French Republic, the British Empire, and the Russian Empire, later joined by Italy, Japan, and the United States |
| Central Powers | the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria |
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