World War I Test/MP3 Benchmark Flashcards
To achieve his foreign policy goal of isolating the nation of ________, Bismarck formed the Triple Alliance. Its members were ________, __________, and ________.
France; Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
To counteract the Triple Alliance, France joined with ________ and _________ to form an alliance called the _____________.
Russia, Great Britain; Triple Entente
The ________ region was called the “powder keg” of Europe.
Balkan
In 1914, the assassination of _______________________ in the city of __________ triggered the chain events that led to World War I.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand; Sarajevo
When German troops marched through Belgium into France, violating a guarantee of neutrality, _________________ declared war on Germany.
Great Britain
During World War I Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottomon Empire formed the ____________ Powers, and Great Britain, France, Russia, and their partners formed the _________ Powers.
Central; Allied
In 1915 nearly 2000 people, including more than 100 Americans, were killed when a German U-boat sank the ______________, a British passenger liner.
Lusitania
The __________________ telegram showed the United States that Germany had no regard for the rights of neutral powers.
Zimmermann
In March 1917 ______________ abdicated, ending the 300-year-old ___________ dynasty in Russia.
Czar Nicholas II; Romanov
In November 1917, the ___________, led by ________, seized control of Russia, after which they renamed themselves the Communist Party.
Bolsheviks; Lenin
In 1918 a civil war broke out in Russia between the __________, or the Communists, and the _________, who opposed the Communists. The Allies helped the ________________, but they were defeated in 1921.
Reds; Whites; White forces
In 1918 the president of the United States, ________________, announced his formulation of the Allied war goals. These proposals are known as the ____________________.
Woodrow Wilson; Fourteen Points
The countries that made up the Big Four at the Paris Peace Conference were:
Great Britain, France, United States, and Italy
Two provisions of the Versailles Treaty that particularly angered the Germans were:
(a) the treaty made Germany admit that it alone was guilty of starting war and therefore must pay reparations. (b) the treaty did not specify the total amount of reparations
The Allied power that never joined the League of Nations was _________________.
United States
