The Black Hand was a secret society committed to ridding Bosnia of Austrian rule.
False
True
The deadlocked, stalemate, region in northern France became known as the Eastern Front.
False
True
A/An _______________ is a list of demands, that if not met, can lead to serious consequences.
entente
annexation
ultimatum
military alliance
What region was referred to as the Powder Keg of Europe?
The Balkans
The Ottoman Empire
Alsace Lorrain
The Western Front
Which of the European powers had the strongest navy?
Bulgaria
Russia
Briatian
France
Between 1864 and 1871, Prussia’s blood-and-iron chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, used war to unify Germany.
False
True
One of the five treaties negotiated by the Allies was known as the Treaty of Versailles
True
False
What is nationalism?
The unity of different nations
The common borders
Deep devotion to one's nation
An alliance of countries with a similar history
Which terms describe a defense agreement between countries to assist each other?
Nationalism
Alliances
Militarism
Imperialism
After WWI, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, formerly part of ___________, became independent nations.
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
The Ottoman Empire
Russia
Article 231, also known as the, __________, ordered Germany to pay huge war reparations to Allied nations
Fourteen Points
Mandates' Clause
"war guilt" clause
Self-Determination Clause
Where was the Western Front?
Across Russia
Across Germany
Along the borders of France with Germany
Along the borders of Italy with Austria-Hungary
In January 1917, _____ announced that their submarines would sink without warning any ship in the waters around Britain.
Germany
Austria-Hungary
France
The Ottoman Empire
By early 1915, opposing armies on the Western Front had dug miles of parallel ___ to protect themselves from enemy fire.
Submarines
Tunnels
Trenches
Turnpikes
Which statement summarizes the Schlieffen Plan that Germany created to prepare for a two-front war?
Send half of the army to France and half to Russia
Attack Russia first, then France
Ally with Russia to fight France
<b>Attack France first, then Russia</b>
___________ was a new WWI weapon that caused blindness, blisters and choking.
The machine gun
Poison Gas
The tank
The submarine
Before WWI, the two alliances were called __________
Triple Alliance and Axis Powers
Homefront and Warfront
Triple Entente and Allied Powers
Triple Entente and Triple Alliance
What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war called?
Militarism
Nationalism
Alliances
Imperialism
The League of Nations was to be an international association whose goal would be to keep peace among nations.
True
False
Where was the Eastern front?
<b>Along the border between Russia & Germany, Austria-Hungary</b>
From the North sea to the Swiss border
Across Italy
Across Britain
Which THREE nations belonged to the Triple Entente?
Germany, Serbia and France
Russia, Italy and Great Britain
Britain, France, Russia
Great Britain, the USA and France
Great Britain was represented at the Paris Peace Conference by George Clemenceau.
False
True
Which TWO non-Balkan nations competed for dominance of the Balkans?
Great Britain and Italy
Austria-Hungary and France
Serbia and Austria-Hungary
Japan and Italy
What was "rationing"?
Separating good and bad times
People were only allowed to buy small amounts of items needed for the war
Soldiers ate and slept in mud
Buying whatever people wanted
In 1908, Russia annexed, or took over, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
False
True
In March 1918, Germany and Russia signed the Treaty of ___________, which ended the war between them.
Armstice
Brest-Litovsk
Versailles
Mandates
The Balkan peninsula, in the southern corner of Asia, was home to an assortment of ethnic groups
False
True
Imperialism and Militarism worked together to promote war.
False
True
Which nation annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908?
France
Russia
Germany
Austria-Hungary
The area between the trenches was known as the Eastern Front.
False
True
Why were Germany and Austria-Hungary known as Central Powers?
Due to their geographic location in the heart of Europe
This is because the war was fought on two fronts
They had combined armies
Due to their alliance in the war
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between ____________ to stop the war between them.
Great Britain & France
Italy & Russia
USA & Germany
Germany & Russia
Although Japan had been part of the Triple Alliance, it refused to join the Central Powers.
True
False
The _________ had a long history of nationalist uprisings, ethnic clashes, and were known as the “powder keg” of Europe.
Balkans
British
Romans
Hapsburgs
Article 231, also known as the "war guilt" clause, ordered _____________ to pay huge war reparations to Allied nations
Ottoman Empire
Germany
France
Britain
The German government signed an Armistice, which was an agreement to stop fighting with France.
True
False
Which of the following countries completely changed their name after WWI?
Germany
Romania
Italy
Austria-Hungary
_______________ was the ruler of Germany when the war started.
<b>Kaiser Wilhelm II</b>
Gavrilo Princip
Otto von Bismarck
Franz Ferdinand
The United States entered the war on the side of the Allies.
True
False
Which nation’s heir to the throne was assassinated in 1914 by a Serbian nationalist?
Austria-Hungary
Serbia
Germany
France
On November 9th, 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm stepped down and Germany declared itself a republic.
True
False
The World War I alliance that included Great Britain, France and Russia was the ________.
Triple Entente
Schlieffen Plan
Triple Alliance
Allied Powers / Western Front
Bulgaria was in the Triple Alliance but later switched sides after accusing their partners of unjustly starting a war.
False
True
Where did the German government representative meet with French Commander Marshal Foch?
In a railway car near Germany
In a railway car near Paris
In a railway car near Austria
In a railway car near the Turkish borders
Why was there hostility between Austria-Hungary and Serbia?
Serbia had given up Bosnia
The Balkan area was in conflict.
Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina
No one was interested in the Balkans
A promising strategy for the Allies was to attack a region in the Ottoman Empire known as __________.
Bosporus
Constantinople
Canakkale
Dardanelles
Japan and Italy joined the Triple Entente and were known as __________________.
Allied Powers
Neutral Powers
Central Powers
Triple Powers
Although it had been on the side of the Central Powers at first, _____________, joined the Allies later, during the war.
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Bulgaria
The Ottoman Empire
Bosnia and Herzegovina had a large Slavic population and hoped to absorb all the Slavs on the Balkan Peninsula.
False
True
Which THREE nations belonged to the Triple Alliance?
France, Great Britain and Japan
. Great Britain, France and the USA
Germany, Italy and the Ottoman Empire
<b>Italy, Germany and Austria-Hungary</b>
Which nation was the first to declare war in what would come to be called the Great War?
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Austria-Hungary
Central Powers
The Zimmerman Note, which pushed USA into war exposed the German plans to ______
sink passenger ships without warning
plant German spies in USA
help Mexico regain US territory
make a truce with Russia
Archduke of Austria-Hungary who got killed while he was visiting Sarajevo with his wife Sophie
Franz Ferdinand
Kaisser Wilhelm
Napoleon III
Otto Von Bismarck
In this type of warfare, soldiers fought each other from trenches.
Submaribe warfare
Eastern Front
Deadlock
Trench warfare
Which nation greatly regretted its loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in 1870?
France
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Britain
Which countries formed the Central Powers?
Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary and then were joined byGermany
Italy and France and then were joined by Bulgaria and theOttoman Empire.
<b>Germany, Austria-Hungary, then they were joined</b> <b>by Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire</b>
Great Britain, Austria-Hungary, then they were joined by Bulgaria, Ottomans
The guiding principle behind Wilson's Fourteen Points was ___________.
Self-Determination
Mandates System
Colonization
None of the answers is correct
Trench warfare was the primary form of warfare used on the Eastern Front.
False
True
By securing the Dardanelles, the ________ believed they could take Constantinople.
Austro-Hungarians
Central Powers
Allies
Germans
Two nations deliberately excluded from the League of Nations were Germany and Russia.
True
False
The Germans launched a massive attack against the French near Verdun Castle in 1916.
False
True
The stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border was the __________.
Balkans
Trench warfare
Western Front
Eastern Front
One of the reasons World War I was considered a new kind of war was because _______________
it involved the use of new technologies
the economy was not affected
Not many people died
it was not as destructive as the other wars
The Triple Alliance was made up by Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
False
True
Why was the Balkans known to be the “powder keg” of Europe?
This was the name given to it
It was an area of nationalist uprisings and ethnicclashes
There was no interest in that area
There was one ethnic group living there
WWI soon became a _________________.
Total War
Cold War
Proxy War
Religious War
Life in the trenches was pure _____________.
fun
rich
enjoyment
misery
The post-WWI international organization whose goal was to keep peace among nations was called the ____________.
League of Nations
Western Front
Eastern Front
UN
The quest for colonies or _______________ pushed Europe to the brink of war.
Socialism
colonialism
imperialism
militarism
In January 1918, __________ had drawn up a series of peace proposals known as the Fourteen Points.
Kaiser Wilhelm
Otto Von Bismarck
David Cleemenceau
Widrow Wilson
Which term best describes extreme pride in one's country?
Nationalism
Imperialism
Militarism
Alliances
A promising strategy for the Allies was the _______ (attacking a region in the Ottoman Empire known as Dardanelles).
Gallipoli Campaign
propaganda
unrestricted submarine warfare
rationing
The Russian army’s greatest asset was its advanced navy.
True
False