WWI

Question 1

What were the four main causes of WWI?

Answer 1

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism (MAIN)

Question 2

Triple Alliance

Answer 2

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

Question 3

Triple Entente

Answer 3

France, Great Britain, Russia

Question 4

What was Serbia determined to do?

Answer 4

Create a large, independent Slavic state in the Balkans

Question 5

Did Austria-Hungary want the Slavic state established by the Serbians? Why?

Answer 5

No, because they already had their own Slavic minorities to contend with.

Question 6

What did Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, do?

Answer 6

He shot Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife

Question 7

How did the Austrian-Hungary government react to the assassination?

Answer 7

They blamed it on the Serbians and wanted to attack them

Question 8

What did the Austrian-Hungarians fear when considering the attack on Serbia? What did they do about this?

Answer 8

The intervention of Serbia’s ally, Russia. They signed a “blank-check” with Emperor William II of Germany that promised German support if Russia attacked Austria-Hungary.

Question 9

What did Austria-Hungary do once the “blank-check” was signed?

Answer 9

They declared war on Serbia.

Question 10

Why would the partial mobilization of the Russian army not work?

Answer 10

If the Russians partially mobilized on Austria-Hungary, they would also have to face Germany

Question 11

What did the Schlieffen Plan call for?

Answer 11

A two-front war with France and Russia. The Germans would cut through Belgium, fight France, then go east into Russia

Question 12

Why did Germany declare war on France?

Answer 12

They couldn’t just mobilize their troops against Russia

Question 13

Why did Great Britain declare war on Germany?

Answer 13

For violating Belgian neutrality

Question 14

Propaganda

Answer 14

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause

Question 15

What happened during the First Battle of the Marne?

Answer 15

French military leaders loaded 2,000 Parisian taxicabs with fresh troops and sent them to the front line to halt the Germans

Question 16

Why did trench warfare on the Western Front occur?

Answer 16

Neither the Germans nor the French could dislodge themselves from the trenches they dug for shelter

Question 17

What occurred on the Eastern front?

Answer 17

The Russian army was defeated by the Germans, but the Austrians were defeated by the Russians and thrown out of Serbia.

Question 18

Who betrayed the Triple Alliance?

Answer 18

Italy, who joined the Triple Entente, forming the Allies

Question 19

How did the Germans help the Austrians after the Russian attacks in Galacia?

Answer 19

The Germans defeated the Russian army

Question 20

No-man’s land

Answer 20

The strip of territory between Germany and France’s trenches

Question 21

What were trenches guarded and protected by?

Answer 21

Barbed wire, machine-gun nests, and heavy artillery

Question 22

What was the tactic of trench warfare?

Answer 22

Beginning with an artillery barrage to flatten the enemy’s barbed wire, soldiers then attacked the enemy.

Question 23

What was the war in the air?

Answer 23

Airplanes targeted enemies and ground targets, and Germans used airships to bomb London and eastern England

Question 24

What were the Central Powers?

Answer 24

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

Question 25

How was the life of those back home affected?

Answer 25

Propaganda, food rationing

Question 26

What was the role of women in the war?

Answer 26

They took over many jobs that men would traditionally have, such as chimney sweepers, truck drivers, farm laborers, and factory workers

Question 27

What were the territorial aspects of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 27

-Alsace Lorraine was returned to France
-Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria
-Lands in East Germany, including the farmlands of Posen and the Polish corridor between East
Germany and East Prussia, were given to Poland
-The Saar, which had rich coalfields, was given to France for 15 years
-All of Germany’s colonies were taken and given to France and Britain as mandates

Question 28

What were the military aspects of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 28

• The German army was restricted to only 100,000 men
• The Navy could now only have 6 battleships
• No submarines
• No airforce allowed
• The Rhineland was dematerialized, meaning that the German army could not go to this area between France and Germany

Question 29

What were the financial/economic aspects of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 29

• Germany would have to pay reparations, which would eventually be set at an enormous 132 billion gold marks
• Germany was not allowed to join the league of nations
• They had to accept responsibility for causing all the damage and loss by the war