Test Testweek 1 First World War

Question 1

Belle Époque

Answer 1

French: ‘fine period’; period of peace and prosperity in Europe and the USA preceding the First World War.

Question 2

The Great War

Answer 2

Another name for the First World War.

Question 3

arms race

Answer 3

Competition between nations to build the most weapons.

Question 4

militarism

Answer 4

Soldiers got much respect and there was a great love for the military.

Question 5

Allies

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Alliance between France, Britain, Russia and the USA during the First World War.

Question 6

Central Powers

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Alliance of Germany, Austria- Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottomans during the First World War.

Question 7

Two-front war

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War in which a country had to fight battles in separate locations at the same general time.

Question 8

Schlieffen Plan

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German strategy to invade France through Belgium and after defeating the French to send their soldiers to the Eastern Front to fight the Russians.

Question 9

Mobalisation

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Preparing the army for battle and moving the soldiers to the borders.

Question 10

Neutrality

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Policy of a nation not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, war etc.

Question 11

Battle of the Marne

Answer 11

Battle in 1914, in which the advance of the German troops through France was halted.

Question 12

Trench war

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War in which both sides build a heavily defended frontline.

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Trenches

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Long, narrow ditches defended with bunkers, machineguns and barbed wire.

Question 14

Artillery

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Long range guns or missile launchers used in warfare on land.

Question 15

U-Boat

Answer 15

German submarine.

Question 16

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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Peace treaty between the new government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers, signed in March 1918.

Question 17

Total war

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When every civilian in a country has to focus on winning the war.

Question 18

Armistice

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Agreement by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting; truce.

Question 19

Fourteen Points

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US president Wilson’s principles for peace to be used for the peace negotiations in order to end World War I.

Question 20

Treaty of Versailles

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Peace treaty that brought World War I to an end and in which the Allies defined the future of Germany.

Question 21

War reparations

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Compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage it inflicted during a war.

Question 22

League of Nations

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International organisation founded in 1920 to maintain world peace and to prevent future wars; in 1946 replaced by the United Nations.

Question 23

National self-determination

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The right of peoples to form a nation.

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Secular

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Not related to religion; in a secular state there is a separation between Church and State.

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Isolationism

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Policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of the political affairs of other countries.

Question 26

Duma

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Russian parliament.

Question 27

Soviet

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Revolutionary council of labourers or peasants in Russia before 1917; also: citizen of the Soviet Union (Soviet).

Question 28

Communism

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System of social organisation in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to his ability and needs. Thinking a Revolution needs to happen.

Question 29

Bolshevik

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Member of the political party of Lenin.

Question 30

Dictator

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Ruler with total power over a country, mostly one who had obtained control by force.