WWI - Semester 1 Final

Question 1

Nationalism

Answer 1

Belief that people’s greatest loyalty should not be to a king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history.

Question 2

Imperialism​

Answer 2

The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country.

Question 3

Industrialization

Answer 3

The process of developing machine production of goods.

Question 4

Militarism

Answer 4

The policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war.

Question 5

Mobilize​

Answer 5

Organizing and assembling national resources to support national objectives in wartime or an emergency.

Question 6

Schlieffen Plan​

Answer 6

Attacking and defeating France in the west and then rushing east to fight Russia. Speed was vital to the plan.

Question 7

Archduke Ferdinand

Answer 7

Austrian royal that was shot by Gavrilo Princip which started a war between Serbia and Austria that became WWI

Question 8

Gavrilo Princip​

Answer 8

A Serb and member of The Black Hand (Secret Society committed to ridding Bosnia of Austrian Rule) that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand that started a war between Serbia and Austria that became World War I.

Question 9

Allied Powers

Answer 9

Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Italy

Question 10

Trench warfare

Answer 10

Type of warfare where soldiers fought each other from trenches

Question 11

No-man’s land

Answer 11

The space between the opposing trenches in trench warfare

Question 12

Zimmerman telegram

Answer 12

Telegram that the US intercepted a telegram written by Arthur Zimmerman who was the German secretary wrote to Mexico saying if Mexico would ally itself with Mexico, Germany would help Mexico reconquer the land lost to the US

Question 13

Battle of the Somme

Answer 13

Then the British counter attacked the Germans. The British lost more than 20,000 men on the first day.

Question 14

Gallipolli

Answer 14

The allies attacked Gallipolli peninsula from May until December before they evacuated. The allies had 250,000 casualties.

Question 15

Russian Revolution

Answer 15

Long term social unrest in Russia that exploded in revolution and ushered in the first communist government.

Question 16

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 16

Father of the Russian Revolution

Question 17

Czar Nicolas II

Answer 17

The Czar of Russia in the 1914. Assassinated in 1914 in the Russian revolution

Question 18

Big Three

Answer 18

The three most important leaders at the Treaty of Versailles, the peace treaty signed in 1919 to officially end WW1 who were Georges Clemenceau (France), David Lloyd George (Britain) and Woodrow Wilson (USA)

Question 19

Flu pandemic

Answer 19

America brought the flu to Europe and killed a lot of people

Question 20

Armistice

Answer 20

An agreement to stop fighting

Question 21

What conditions existed in the world that made WWI possible?

Answer 21

Competition

Question 22

How were the colonies involved?

Answer 22

Both sides used their colonies for war resources and they try to concour each others colonies in Africa.

Question 23

Describe 2 new weapons used during WWI? Why were they so effective?

Answer 23

2 new guns in the war are Mustard gas and flamethrower. The mustard gas was such a a great success in the Western front because there were trenches. The flamethrower was a success because it destroyed everything.

Question 24

What role did women play during the war? What did Russian women do?

Answer 24

Ammunition, making clothes, making food, nurses, and spies. The Russian women shaved their head.

Question 25

What did the treaty of Versailles demand?

Answer 25

1. The was was Germaine’s fault. 2. Germany must pay for all damages caused by the war.3. Germany must give up land conquered before and after the war.4. Germany can’t have a real military any more. No airplanes or submarines.

Question 26

How did the map of Europe change after Europe change after WWI? Give an example.

Answer 26

Austria hungry broke up into little countries. Russia lost a lot of land to Poland.