WWI Study Guide

Question 1

Militarism

Answer 1

An aggressive strengthening of military force

Question 2

Alliance

Answer 2

An agreement made between two or more to give help if needed.

Question 3

Imperialism

Answer 3

When a country takes over new lands or countries and makes them subject to their rule

Question 4

Nationalism

Answer 4

A strong sense of pride and loyalty to one’s country or culture.

Question 5

What did Europe have in the early 1870’s

Answer 5

enormous tension between nations.
Especially following the Franco-German War (1871) and in the
Balkan Region.

Question 6

Who was assassinated

Answer 6

Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
led to the start of WWI

Question 7

Who was he assassinated by

Answer 7

Gavrilo Princip,a young Serbian.

Question 8

The assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
led to

Answer 8

the start of WWI.

Question 9

Franz Ferdinand’s wife Sophie was also

Answer 9

Killed in the assassination

Question 10

Because of the assassination who first declared war?

Answer 10

,Austria-Hungary first declared war
on Serbia.

Question 11

Why did Russia join the war to help Serbia

Answer 11

Because of their previously agreed alliance

Question 12

What was the Triple Alliance known as?

Answer 12

The Central Powers

Question 13

What was the Triple Entente known as?

Answer 13

The Allied Powers

Question 14

What were the Trenches of WWI fire steps?

Answer 14

wooden planks built into the dirt wall of atrench that allowed soldiers to see over the sandbags on the front wall.
Duckboards were large wooden planks laid over areas where water gathered.

Question 15

What did Germans expect?

Answer 15

a war of attrition or stalemate to a higher degree than the Allied forces.
o Therefore, German trenches were much more sophisticated with electricity, toilets, and even beds.

Question 16

What were the British and Trenches like?

Answer 16

The British and Trenches were wet, muddy, cold, and dark.

Question 17

All Trenches had what?

Answer 17

All Trenches had ,rats,dead bodies,and often raw sewage.

Question 18

What were the down falls of the Trench?

Answer 18

The down falls were trench foot,trenchfever,and boredom

Question 19

Where did the Western Fonts run to?

Answer 19

The Wester Fonts ran to the English Channel to Switzerland.

Question 20

How were the Powers separated

Answer 20

The Allie Powers were on one side and the Central Powers were on the other.

Question 21

What did Germans expect

Answer 21

• Germans expected a war of attrition or stalemate to a higher degree than the Allied forces.
o Therefore, German trenches were much more sophisticated with electricity, toilets, and even beds.

Question 22

The WWI Eastern Front was the barrier between what?

Answer 22

The WWI Eastern Front was the barrier between Russian and German armies and went away when Russia left the war.

Question 23

What is a Trench Warfare

Answer 23

A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.

Question 24

WWI weapons had the ability to what?

Answer 24

WWI weapons had the ability to cause greatly in creasing damage during WWI, but armor DID NOT improve at the same rate.

Question 25

What was the cause for a Trench Warefare

Answer 25

As a result, the death count grew extremely high and caused the need for trench warfare.

Question 26

When was the chemical gas used in an active war zone?

Answer 26

WWI was the first-time chemical gas was used In an active war zone.

Question 27

Why did the US enter the war

Answer 27

The United States entered the war because:
o Blockades were impacting American way of life. o Germans sunk the Lusitania
o The Zimmermann Telegram

Question 28

Why was the US encouraged to join the war

Answer 28

§ Secret note from Germany to Mexico that tried to get Mexico to join German war effort. It was intercepted by the British and published in newspapers to encourage the U.S. to join the war.
• USTroopswerecommandedbyJohnJ.Pershing

Question 29

What were females doing around the world while men worked in the WWI

Answer 29

Females across the world worked in factories while menbfought WWI.

Question 30

WWI ended at what time

Answer 30

WWIendedat11:00amonNovember11,1918
o “Armistice Day” – Veteran’s Day
o Armistice - Truce or agreement to end a dispute
• GloballeadersmetatVersailles,inFrance,tosettledetailsofthe war treaty.
• USPresidentWoodrowWilsonsuggestFourteenPointPlan

Question 31

What was the Fourteen Point Plan

Answer 31

President Wilson’s list of ideas for
how to live in peace after the war.
• Germanywasrequiredtotakefullblameofthewar.
• Germanylostlandtoothercountriesandhadtopayreparationsto
fix the damage the war caused.

Question 32

What was the Reparations

Answer 32

o Reparations - Payments for war debt or war guilt
• GermanywasforbiddentohavetanksoranactiveAirForce.
• TheLeagueofNationswascreatedtokeepglobalpeace,butit
failed miserably.

Question 33

What was the League of Nations

Answer 33

o League of Nations - The international assembly that would
work to settle international disagreements created by Woodrow Wilson