Review for WWI Quiz

1. Review for WWI Quiz

2. US President Woodrow Wilson argued at the Paris Peace Conference most strongly for • Germany to pay reparations. • Germany to keep it’s colonies • Russia to end communism. • a League of Nations to prevent future wars

3. France was pleased to see that the Treaty of Versailles required • Germany to build a wall in Berlin • Germany to pay reparations. • Germany to become communist. • Germany to fix the Iron Curtain.

4. World War I was a _______________, meaning that it involved a complete mobilization of resources and people. • total war • revolutionary war • cold war • civil war

5. The German government argued that sinking the Lusitania was justified because the ship had been carrying • Allied troops • British citizens • American citizens • weapons to the Allies

6. The German military plan devised by General Von Schlieffen • relied on Germany’s air force • depended on help from Great Britain • required use of atomic bombs • called for war against France & Russia

7. What day was the armistice signed that marked the end of WWI hostilities? • December 7, 1941 • July 4, 1914 • November 11, 1918 • June 6, 1917

8. All of the following describe trench warfare EXCEPT • unrestricted use of submarines and torpedoes • a no man’s land in the middle where men risk being shot • rats in the trenches eating your food • constant artillery strikes and attacks

9. 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 _______. • women to fight • threatening death • Conscription (draft) • cutting off immigration

10. Which country was not a member of the Central Powers during WWI • Germany • Austria-Hungary • France • Ottoman Empire

11. Which country was not a member of the Allies during WWI • Great Britain • Spain • Russia • France

12. Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points were intended to • make the United States, Great Britain, and France into leading world powers • redistribute Germany’s colonies among the Allied nations • serve as the basis of a peace settlement • punish Germany for causing World War I

13. A major cause of the outbreak of World War I was • a decline in the policy of imperialism • an increase in acts of aggression by England • the existence of opposing alliances • the spread of communism throughout Europe

14. Which situation was a major reason for the United States entry into World War I? • The League of Nations requested help • The Maine was blown up in Havana Harbor • Nazi tyranny threatened Western democracy • Germany’s use of unrestricted submarine warfare

15. Used during World War I to convince most citizens that their nation’s cause was just and to stir up national hatreds • pop art • Propaganda • planned economies • militarism

16. The inflammatory Zimmerman Telegram proposed that in the event of war between the U. S. and Germany: • America would send troops to Cuba to assassinate Fidel Castro. • Mexico would join the Central Powers and attack the United States. • Germany would send missiles to Cuba. • Germany would use unrestricted submarine warfare against the Mexicans.