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World History Ch. 20
History test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| It is an emperor | Kaiser |
| It means made ready | Mobilized |
| It is a situation in which neither side gains advantages | Stalemate |
| This was when enemies would dig trenches to fight in | Trench warfare |
| These were areas between trenches | "No man's land" |
| They were similar to modern blimps. They were used by the Germans to bomb eastern England and London | Zeppelins |
| They were submarines used by the Germans to sink Allied and Neutral ships | U-boats |
| It is a temporary ceasing of fighting | Armistice |
| This was payment for war damages | Reparations |
| It was the suspension of payments | Moratorium |
| This was the eliminating weapons | Disarmament |
| He was the Frenchman who founded the Red Cross. | Jean Henri Dunant |
| He was a Swedish chemist who made his fortune by inventing dynamite. He also established an award for men and women called the Nobel Peace Prize. | Alfred Nobel |
| He was an American steel magnate who donated funds to build the Peace Palace in the Netherlands. | Andrew Carnegie |
| He was the kaiser of Germany who let the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia expire. | Wilhelm II |
| His assassination caused WWI to begin because he was heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. | Franz Ferdinand |
| He led the Germans to victory in the Battle of Tannenberg and the Battle of Masurian Lakes. | General Paul von Hindenburg |
| He was also known as the “Red Baron”. He was a German flying ace who had 80 air combat victoies. | Manfred von Richthofen |
| He was the most famous American flying ace with 26 kills. | Eddie Rickenbacker |
| He abdicated the throne because of an uprising of the Russian people. | Czar Nicholas II |
| He was the Russian leader who signed a treaty to take Russia out of the war. | Vladimir Lenin |
| He helped the U.S. when it entered the war and eventually helped it to win the war. | General John J. Pershing |
| He led the Allied troops to hold strong against the attacks from the Germans. | General Ferdinand Foch |
| He was the President of the U.S. who created his Fourteen Points and he started the League of Nations. | Woodrow Wilson |
| He was part of the Paris Peace Conference, and he wanted to keep Germany weak in order to protect France. | Georges Clemenceau |
| He was the British prime minister in the Paris Peace Conference who wanted Germany punished. | David Lloyd George |
| He was the Italian prime minister in the Paris Peace Conference. | Vittorio Orlando |
| This is where the Germans and the Belgians solidified positions and fought for months and where they dug long trenches. | Marne River |
| This was the land that Britian tried to take and drop off their Allied troops. | Gallipoli Peninsula |
| This battle was where Germany tried to break the blockade of the German coastline. | Battle of Jutland |
| This treaty was signed by Vladimir Lenin which took Russia out of the war. | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| This was made up of 32 nations which met in order to negotiate the terms of ending WWI. | Paris Peace Conference |
| This was what Wilson’s peace plan was known as which was meant to be moderate and not seek revenge on other nations of WWI. | Fourteen Points |
| This treaty was crearted by the Allied nations for Germany to sign. It gave them territorial, economic, and military provisions, and it gave them the “War Guilt” Clause. | Treaty of Versailles |
| This treaty dismantled the Ottoman Empire. | Treaty of Sevres |
| This was the pact between Germany, France, and Belgium where they agreed to recognize borders. They also agreed not to go to war with each other except in self-defense. | Locarno Pact |
| At this conference Britain, the U.S., Japan, and some other nations agreed to limit the number of war ships each could have. | Washington Naval Conference |
| This agreement called for nations to renounce the use of offensive war. This pact was broken by Japan three years after it was signed. | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| This was one of Bismarck’s alliances that fell apart when Russia and Austria-Hungary fought over the Balkans. | Three Emperor's League |
| This was the alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary where they pledged support if Russia attacked one of them. | Dual Alliance |
| This added Italy to the Dual Alliance and was made to prevent France from finding strong allies. | Triple Alliance |
| This was the secret alliance between Germany and Russia. | Reinsurance Treaty |
| This was a “friendly” agreement between Britain and France. | Entente Cordiale |
| This included Germany and Austria-Hungary. | Central Powers |
| This included Russia, Serbia, and France. | Allied Powers |
| This was an international organization where nations could discuss their issues instead of fighting about them. | League of Nations |
| This was Bismarck’s idea to form alliances to prevent France from gaining an ally. | Bismarck's System |
| This was an anti-Austrian terrorist group in Serbia. | Black Hand |
| This was Germany’s plan to attack France. | Schlieffen Plan |
| This was a British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat. | Lusitania |
| This was when Wilson negotiated an armistice with a new government in Germany. | Second Reich |
| What is the beginning date of World War I? What is its ending date? | July 28, 1914; November 11, 1918 |
| They were battles where planes tried to shoot each other down. | Dogfights |
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