Transcript Review for WWI Quiz

Review for WWI Quiz
US President Woodrow Wilson argued at the
Paris Peace Conference most strongly for
a) Germany to pay reparations.
b) Germany to keep it’s colonies
c) Russia to end communism.
d) a League of Nations to prevent future wars
France was pleased to see that the Treaty of
Versailles required
a) Germany to build a wall in Berlin
b) Germany to pay reparations.
c) Germany to become communist.
d) Germany to fix the Iron Curtain.
World War I was a _______________, meaning
that it involved a complete mobilization of
resources and people.
a) total war
b) revolutionary war
c) cold war
d) civil war
The German government argued that sinking
the Lusitania was justified because the ship had
been carrying
a) Allied troops
b) British citizens
c) American citizens
d) weapons to the Allies
The German military plan devised by General
Von Schlieffen
a) relied on Germany’s air force
b) depended on help from Great Britain
c) required use of atomic bombs
d) called for war against France & Russia
What day was the armistice signed that marked
the end of WWI hostilities?
a) December 7, 1941
b) July 4, 1914
c) November 11, 1918
d) June 6, 1917
All of the following describe trench warfare
EXCEPT
a) unrestricted use of submarines and
torpedoes
b) a no man’s land in the middle where men risk
being shot
c) rats in the trenches eating your food
d) constant artillery strikes and attacks
Necessary steps in mobilization for war include
gathering volunteer troops, supplies and
weapons. If enough men did not volunteer,
then a country had to rely on _______.
a) women to fight
b) threatening death
c) Conscription (draft)
d) cutting off immigration
Which country was not a member of the
Central Powers during WWI
a) Germany
b) Austria-Hungary
c) France
d) Ottoman Empire
Which country was not a member of the Allies
during WWI
a) Great Britain
b) Spain
c) Russia
d) France
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points were
intended to
a) make the United States, Great Britain, and
France into leading world powers
b) redistribute Germany’s colonies among the
Allied nations
c) serve as the basis of a peace settlement
d) punish Germany for causing World War I
A major cause of the outbreak of World War I
was
a) a decline in the policy of imperialism
b) an increase in acts of aggression by England
c) the existence of opposing alliances
d) the spread of communism throughout
Europe
Which situation was a major reason for the
United States entry into World War I?
a) The League of Nations requested help
b) The Maine was blown up in Havana Harbor
c) Nazi tyranny threatened Western democracy
d) Germany’s use of unrestricted submarine
warfare
Used during World War I to convince most
citizens that their nation’s cause was just and
to stir up national hatreds
a) pop art
b) Propaganda
c) planned economies
d) militarism
The inflammatory Zimmerman Telegram proposed
that in the event of war between the U. S. and
Germany:
a) America would send troops to Cuba to
assassinate Fidel Castro.
b) Mexico would join the Central Powers and attack
the United States.
c) Germany would send missiles to Cuba.
d) Germany would use unrestricted submarine
warfare against the Mexicans.