Industrial Revoluiton, Imperialism/Nationalism, and WWI Study Guide

Question 1

Name the three factors of production in the industrial revolution.

Answer 1

Land,Labor,Capital

Question 2

Describe what an assembly line is and how it works.

Answer 2

individual workers assembling a product, each performing a specific task in a particular sequence.

Question 3

Steam engine, to provide power,1712

Answer 3

James Watt

Question 4

Light Bulb, allows to people to see, 1879

Answer 4

Thomas Edison

Question 5

Telephone, transmit voice messages, 1876

Answer 5

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 6

Heat Pump, To heat up the house, 1855

Answer 6

Albert Einstein

Question 7

Morse code, send secret messages, 1837

Answer 7

Samuel Morse

Question 8

Steam boat, to sail across the world, 1807

Answer 8

Robert Fulton

Question 9

Identify two European countries established (created) in the 1870’s. Who are the people responsible for their establishment?

Answer 9

Austria and Hungary

Question 10

In 1848, which European countries joined together to join a dual monarchy? Who was their leader?

Answer 10

Austria Hungary Franz Joseph

Question 11

What is the Suez Canal? Where is it located? Which countries are responsible for its creation?

Answer 11

Egyptian waterway connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas. Between the Mediterranean and red seas. Egypt, Israel, France, and Great Britain.

Question 12

What war was the first cause of US involvement in international affairs? When did it occur?

Answer 12

WW1

Question 13

Who was Kaiser Wilhelm? What country is he associated with?

Answer 13

King of Prussia Germany

Question 14

What are the four main causes of WWI? Describe/define each one.

Answer 14

Militarism- the military
Alliance- forming an agreement with another country
Nationalism- loyal to one’s country
Imperialism- country controlling another country
Assaination- Killing someone

Question 15

What is propaganda and what is its purpose?

Answer 15

Posters and pamphlets made by the government to influence public opinion.

Question 16

Who was the leader of Germany from the end of the 1800’s through World War I?

Answer 16

Otto Von Bismark

Question 17

What was the Schlieffen Plan?

Answer 17

Where the German army split up into three parts to play different roles on hold of the British.

Question 18

Describe the Zimmerman Note and its significance.

Answer 18

A letter sent To a German official in Mexico prior to American involvement with World War 1; it proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico.

Question 19

Prior to WWI, what region was called the “Powder Keg of Europe” and why?

Answer 19

The Balkans. Because the political situation was unstable.

Question 20

What events led to the United States becoming involved in World War I?

Answer 20

Germany’s submarine attacks on merchant and passenger ships in 1917.

Question 21

What was “No Man’s Land”? What was it called this?

Answer 21

Land that is owned by no one. Because it’s no…..man’s……land, no man owns it.

Question 22

Which countries became known as the Big Four at the Versailles Peace Conference? Who was the leader of each?

Answer 22

Great Britain- David Lloyed Geroge
France -Georges Clemenceau
USA- Woodrow Wilson
Italy-Antonio Salandra

Question 23

What were the Fourteen Points and who designed them?

Answer 23

Woodrow Wilson

Question 24

Emperor of Russia

Answer 24

-Nicholas II

Question 25

Treaty signed by Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire)

Answer 25

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Question 26

Part of the people’s council for the society union

Answer 26

Lenin

Question 27

Part of the soviet union military

Answer 27

Trotsky

Question 28

Premier for the soviet union

Answer 28

Stalin