Ch 25

Question 1

The Triple Entente

Answer 1

Allied Powers
England Great Britain: Prime Minister Lloyd George
France: George Clemenceau
Russia: Czar Nicholas II
Italy: Victorio Orlando
America

Question 2

Joins to gain land

Answer 2

Italy

Question 3

The Triple alliance

Answer 3

Central Powers
Germany
Austrian-Hungarian Empire
Ottoman Empire

Question 4

Ottoman Empire known as

Answer 4

Old sick man

Question 5

Causes of World War I

Answer 5

1. Nationalism
2. Imperialism: Imperial rivalries
3. Entangling Alliances
4. Militarism: Germany’s rise as a world power

Question 6

The event that sparked the war

Answer 6

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia

Question 7

New technology to break the stalemate

Answer 7

1. The tank
2. Chemical Weapons
3. The Flamethrower

Question 8

Greatest battle of attrition in history

Answer 8

Verdun

Question 9

One of the bloodiest and most futile battles of history

Answer 9

The battle of the Somme

Question 10

Reasons for American involvement

Answer 10

1. Economic
2. Unrestricted submarine warfare
3. Anti-German propoganda

Question 11

USSR

Answer 11

The Union of Soviet Socialists Republics

Question 12

Signs the Armistice

Answer 12

November 11, 1918 at 11 am

Question 13

The sighing of the armistice known to the Germans as _________. By what Hitler will skillfully call __________ Jews, Communists and democrats

Answer 13

Stab in the Back
The November Criminals

Question 14

Ethnic groups should be able to decide for themselves what nation they would belong to

Answer 14

Self determination

Question 15

Point 14: General association of nation to guarantee the security of great and small nations alike

Answer 15

The League of Nations

Question 16

The big four

Answer 16

America: Woodrow Wilson
France: George Clemenceau
England: Prime Minister Lloyd George
Italy: Victorio Orlando

Question 17

3 reasons behind Germany’s uprise in World War II

Answer 17

1. Germany was forced to give up 13% of its land to the allies and all its colonies.
   Germany’s desire to reclaim lost lands
2. Germany was forced to give up 80% of its navy, air force and reduce its army to 100,000 soldiers.
   Germany’s desire to be strong and great again
3. Germany had to accept a “demilitarized zone” in the Rhineland which is next to its industrial heartland the Ruhr.
   Germany evokes its right to defend itself.

Question 18

This clause (provision) forced Germany to accept responsibility in the war. In doing so, Germany was forced to pay

Answer 18

War guilt clause, Reparations (war damages)