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History WW1 quiz
| Question | Answer | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | The heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was shot by Gavrilo Princip while visiting Bosnia. | ||
| Baron Von Richthofen | A famous german pilot known as the "Red Baron" | ||
| President Woodrow Wilson | president of the united states during WWI. Tried to remain neutral in the war. Created a proposal called the Fourteen Points which would hopefully bring peace to Europe. Proposed that a League of Nations should be created to help preserve peace. | ||
| Vladimir Lenin | Leader of the Bolsheviks who overthrew the Democratic Russian government. he ended Russia's participation in the war, and signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany | ||
| General John J. Pershing | led the American Expeditionary Force in Europe. | ||
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | the kaiser of germany during WWI. was forced to give up his throne after losing WWI. | ||
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Senator of Massachusetts. head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. a longtime foe of President Wilson. Disagreed with the U.S. joining the League of Nations. | ||
| George M. Cohan | Composer who was awarded a Medal of Honor for writing "Over There" and for writing "You're a grand old flag" | ||
| Nationalism | The feeling of intense loyalty to one's country or group | ||
| Militarism | The buildup of military strength within a country | ||
| Balance of power | a system that prevents any one country from dominating the others | ||
| Propaganda | information designed to influence opinion | ||
| Autocracy | rule by one person with unlimited power | ||
| Front | line of battle | ||
| Rationing | limitation of use | ||
| Mobilization | the gathering of resources and the preparation for war | ||
| Reparations | payments by the losing country in a war to the winner for the damages caused by the war | ||
| Armistice | a temporary peace agreement to end fighting | ||
| Wilson's Fourteen Points | the peace plan to end WWI and restructure the countries of Europe, proposed by Woodrow Wilson | ||
| National self-determination | the right of the people to decide how the should be governed | ||
| Identify the nations that made up the Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire | ||
| Identify the nations that were part of the Triple Entente | Britain, France and Russia | ||
| Identify the nations that were part of the Triple Alliance | Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary | ||
| Explain the Zimmerman telegram and how it pushed the United States towards war | Zimmerman telegram was a telegram sent from germany to Mexico to try to persuade them to help fight in WWI and in return, when Germany won the war, Germany would help Mexico get their land back from the U.S. | The U.S. was pushed towards war because they did not want to lose their land to Mexico. | |
| Explain how the war in Europe brought an economic boom to in the U.S. | because the U.S. traded with britain and france. and the Allies borrowed billions of dollars from U.S. banks to pay for the war, so they would have to pay it back eventually. | ||
| Identify the new types of weapons and the new nature of warfare, and how it made war more costly | some new weapons that were used in WWI were tanks, airplanes, poison gas and submarines. Nations had to ration food and supplies and make war supplies for the war. | ||
| Explain the controversy caused by the sinking of the Lusitania (Germany's, America's, and Great Britain's point of view) | America believed it was wrong for Germany to sink the Lusitania. | ||
| Understand the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and why it helped Germany strategically | it helped Germany strategically because with Russia out of the war, Germany could turn its focus onto France and move all the troops to france. | ||
| List the reasons why the Allies needed the help of America and why they probably would have lost the war without it | the Allies needed the help of America, because they needed men, supplies and equipment, and they needed help to stop the germans from sinking their ships. | The allies would have probably lost the war without the help of america, because germany was almost in reach of Paris, so they could take over France. | |
| Explain why there was a shortage of labor in the U.S. once they entered the war | because most working men went off to fight in the war and not many immigrants came to the U.S. who were willing to take these jobs | ||
| Explain, Did the labor shortage provide new job opportunities for women and minorities? | it did, because supplies and equipment were needed for the war, so with many of the original workers off at war, the women and other minorities had the opportunity to work at the factories and make those supplies. | ||
| Identify where the U.S. got most of the money to finance the war | most of the money raised for the war was from selling American people liberty bonds | ||
| Describe three ways Americans supported the war effort at home | Americans rationed food for the soldiers, Americans paid more taxes, Americans took jobs to produce more supplies and equipment for the war | ||
| Identify the groups who strongly opposed America's entry into the war. | Irish-Americans, German-Americans, pacifists and socialists | ||
| identify the purpose of the Food Administration, War Industries Board, National War Labor Board and Committee on Public Information | Food Administration-encouraged farmers to produce more and persuaded Americans to eat less, War Industries Board-converted the factories to the production of war-related goods and set prices for key products | National War Labor Board-made sure workers did not go on strike and they would make products. Committee on Public Information-to persuade Americans that the war represented a battle for democracy and freedom. | |
| Identify what country was not represented at the Paris Peace Conference | Russia and/or Germany. Most likely Russia. | ||
| Identify what country never signed the Treaty of Versailles | The United States | ||
| Describe the provisions of the Versailles Treaty | Germany had to take full responsibility for the war, Germany had to pay billions of dollars to the allies for reparation, germany had to disarm completely, Germany had to give up all its overseas colonies and some territory in Europe | ||
| Explain why Wilson proposed the League of Nations and why the Senate didn't ratify U.S. involvement in it | Wilson proposed the League of Nations because he believed it would preserve peace and prevent wars by pledging to respect and protect one another's territory and political independence. | the Senate didn't ratify the U.S. involvement in the League of Nations, because of some senators' opposition to it, | such as Henry Cabot Lodge who believed that if the U.S. joined the league of nations, American troops and American ships may be ordered to any part of the world by nations other than US |
| Identify the four main causes of World War I | Nationalism, the alliance system, Militarism, Imperialism | ||
| Explain the Sabotage and Sedition Acts | Sabotage and Sedition Acts- these laws made it a crime to say, print or write almost anything perceived as negative about the government. |
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