WWI

Question 1

Edmund Blunden & Siegfriend Sassoon

Answer 1

Wrote war memoirs- gruesomeness

Question 2

Remarque

Answer 2

All Quiet on the Western Front

-Talked about experiences of soldiers

Question 3

Junger

Answer 3

wrote books about war experience glorifying war

Question 4

1916 Auxiliary Service Law (Germany)

Answer 4

This required all males to be between seventeen and sixty to work only at jobs considered critical to the war effort.

Question 5

1915 Munitions War Act (Britain)

Answer 5

-A serious shortage of shells led to this. -Ministry would organize private industry to produce for the war, controlled profits, allocated labor, fixed wage rates, and settled labor disputes.

Question 6

Wilson’s Fourteen Points

Answer 6

intended to make a plan for peace in Europe after World War I.

Question 7

League of Nations

Answer 7

• an international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919-1920. -goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improving global welfare.

Question 8

Easter Rebels:

Answer 8

In Ireland in 1916, a nationalist group revolted against British rule who responded with violence seriously damaging the British relationship with Irish Catholics. Also galvanized Irish nationalism as a cause

Question 9

Irish Free State

Answer 9

Est. in 1937 as British sovereignty was partly abolished. Full independence came by 1945

Question 10

Hindenberg plan

Answer 10

German economic plan where pricing and profit margins were set by individual industrialists

Question 11

Balfour declaration

Answer 11

pledge made by Britain’s foreign secretary supporting a separate homeland in Palestine for Jewish people. The conflicting pledges to Bedouin leaders and Zionists sowed the seeds for future Arab-Israeli conflict. Drew Europe more deeply into the Middle East

Question 12

T.E. Lawrence

Answer 12

British officer who popularized Arab’s guerilla actions. He took credit for the capture of Aqaba, a strategic port, entering mythology as “Lawrence of Arabia”

Question 13

Representation of the People Act (1918 Britain)

Answer 13

Gave men and women over age 30 the right to vote

Question 14

Rasputin

Answer 14

treated son of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra, used his influence to undertake corrupt, self-serving schemes which added to the image of a court unable to face modern challenges

Question 15

Brest-Litovsk

Answer 15

Treaty signed by Russia and Germany in March 1918 by the Bolsheviks who surrendered Ukraine, Georgia, Finland, Baltic States, and more. Saved Russia from military defeat by the Germans, but plunged Russia into civil conflict

- Problematic for the Allies since Germans allowed to win on the Eastern Front
- Problematic for conservative governments who worried about revolution
- Allowed for the growth of Socialism

Question 16

The Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 16

a telegram from Zimmerman, Germany’s foreign minister, which was intercepted by Americans. It said that Germany would support a Mexican attempt to take American territory if the US entered the war

Question 17

The Paris Peace Conference

Answer 17

Demonstrated the transformation of the war since Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and German empires were no longer powerful. It also the US rise as a world power due to Wilson’s role. 30 nations sent delegates illustrating the scope of the war, heightened national sentiment and aspiration, and the tightening of int’l communication and economic ties. There was a collective belief that peace would secure and be secured by free people in sovereign nations which demonstrated the full development of liberal nationalism. Mass press

Question 18

The Big Four at PPC

Answer 18

1. Woodrow Wilson
2. David Lloyd George (Britain)
3. Georges Clemenceau (France)
4. Vittorio Orlando (Italy)

Question 19

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 19

: settlement w/ Germany shaped not by Wilson’s idealism but more by a desire for punishment. It gave away German land to Denmark and Poland and disarmed Germany forbidding an air force and reducing its navy. Germany was also forced to pay massive reparations,$33 billion in 1921