World War 1

Question 1

What was the 1914 Battle of Marne?

Answer 1

Battle that foiled Germany’s invasion of France and saved the Allied cause

Question 2

What empire gradually declined and it created tension in what two countries?

Answer 2

Ottoman Empire; tension between Austria and Russia

Question 3

What German territory was returned to France as part of the Treaty of Versailles? What was it also a part of?

Answer 3

Alsace Lorraine was the territory. This was also a part of Wilson’s 14 points.

Question 4

After the czar was overthrown in February 1917, what body served as a part of the dual government and it consisted of _____ and _____.

Answer 4

Petrograd Soviet; consisted of workers and soldiers.

Question 5

This slogan was used by Lenin to gain support during the elections following the October Revolution

Answer 5

“Peace, Land, Bread” (I believe they go in any order!)

Question 6

What did the Zimmerman telegram reveal?

Answer 6

German proposal for a military alliance with Mexico against the US.

Question 7

What country’s ship was sunk in 1915 by German U-boats? (country and name of ship)

Answer 7

British ship; Lusitania

Question 8

Who entered the work force and why?

Answer 8

Women; because of the labor shortage

Question 9

Treaty of Berlin in 1878 created an agreement among major European powers on the boundaries of what region?

Answer 9

The Balkans

Question 10

According to the Treaty of Versailles, what did Germany have to do?

Answer 10

Lose territory, become demilitarized, and forced to pay reperations

Question 11

What were the Cheka?

Answer 11

Secret police that destroyed thousands of Lenin’s political opponents

Question 12

Who was the leader of the failed provisional government who continued to pursue the war?

Answer 12

Alexander Kerensky

Question 13

1916 battle that was the bloodies of the war: Over 1 million casualties

Answer 13

Battle of Somme (cute hint: pronounce “Somme” as “So many people died”)

Question 14

What did Wilson’s 15 points propose include?

Answer 14

Freedom of the seas, arms reductions, and independent nations

Question 15

What leader of the Red Army overthrew the new Russian government in 1917?

Answer 15

Leon Trotsky

Question 16

What did Bismarck fail to do?

Answer 16

Isolate France through multiple alliances

Question 17

What happened on Bloody Sunday?

Answer 17

people peacefully came to St. Petersburg asking the tsar for help. It then became a bloody event

Question 18

What German naval policy eventually brought the US into the war?

Answer 18

unrestricted submarine warfare

Question 19

What provision of the Versailles Treaty placed the sole blame for WWI on Germany?

Answer 19

Article 231 (AKA the War Guilt Clause)

Question 20

What German ruler was unstable and reactive and was largely blamed for starting the war?

Answer 20

Wilhelm II

Question 21

What was “blank check”?

Answer 21

Germany’s unconditional support for Austria-Hungary against Serbia

Question 22

What war was THE major cause of the Russian revolution?

Answer 22

World War One

Question 23

What was the “Dictatorship of the proletariat”? and who believed in it?

Answer 23

Rule by a small revolutionary elite; Lenin

Question 24

Who wrote a 1929 novel detailing the horrors of trench warfare and what was the novel titled?

Answer 24

Erich Remarque; All Quiet on the Western Front

Question 25

What was the League of Nations?

Answer 25

International collective security organization created by Versailles Treaty (but US never joined)

Question 26

What did Alexander II do that was so amazing?

Answer 26

Ended serfdom (emancipation edict)

Question 27

Lenin led what faction of communists?

Answer 27

Bolsheviks

Question 28

An immediate cause of the Russian revolution in 1905?

Answer 28

Failure in the Russo-Japanese war

Question 29

What were the “teams” that fought during WWI? And what countries made that team up?

Answer 29

Triple Alliance (Austria, Germany, Italy) vs Triple Entente (Britain, France, and Russia) [Italy switched sides later on though!]

Question 30

What was the “spark” that caused WWI?

Answer 30

Serbia’s assassination of France Ferdinand of Austria Hungary

Question 31

What is “war communism”?

Answer 31

reforms put forth by Lenin and the Bolsheviks

Question 32

What was the Schlieffan plan?

Answer 32

Proposed by Germany to go through Belgium then attack France. It FAILED

Question 33

Who won the Russian civil war?

Answer 33

Bolsheviks!

Question 34

What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

Answer 34

Treaty between the Russia and the Central Powers, marking Russia’s exit from World War I.

Question 35

Who was the important British economist?

Answer 35

John Maynard Keynes

Question 36

Who was the last czar of Russia during WWI?

Answer 36

Nicholas II

Question 37

What was the Duma?

Answer 37

Russian legislative assembly created by Nicholas II

Question 38

What were the zemstvos?

Answer 38

A new local government in reformed Russia, whose members were elected by a three-class system of towns, peasant villages, and noble landowners.