Ch22 - Terms

Question 1

What is the inexpensive car that was built by the Ford Motor Company?

Answer 1

Model T

Question 2

What are two name for the giant airship used back then?

Answer 2

dirigible

zeppelin

Question 3

What was a result of the wireless telephone? It was an instrument that could receive voice and sound transmissions over radio waves.

Answer 3

radio

Question 4

What was the first commercial broadcasting station?

Answer 4

KDKA

Question 5

What was the British luxury liner that sank in the icy Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg?

Answer 5

Titanic

Question 6

How may people died on the Titanic?

Answer 6

1522

Question 7

Who was involved in the Triple Alliance?

Answer 7

Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy

Question 8

Who was involved in the Triple Entente?

Answer 8

France
Great Britain
and Russia

Question 9

What countries where part of the Allies?

Answer 9

The Triple Entente (England, France, Russia)

and its supporters (incl. Serbia, Belgium, Montenegro, Greece, Romania, Portugal, Japan)

Question 10

What countries were part of the Central Powers?

Answer 10

The Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy)

and its supporters (incl. Bulgaria and Turkey)

Question 11

What was the “Miracle on the Marne”?

Answer 11

A incident in which French forces stopped the German advance at the Marne River, saving Paris and the French army from capture.

Question 12

What were “the trenches”?

Answer 12

deep ditches used in battle for cover against enemy gunfire

Question 13

When was the Russian Revolution?

Answer 13

March 1917

Question 14

Explain the Russian Revolution.

Answer 14

Mutinous soldiers forced the czar to abdicate and set up a Provisional Government.

Question 15

When was the Bolshevik Revolution?

Answer 15

November 1917

Question 16

Explain the Bolshevik Revolution.

Answer 16

Communists led by Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Provisional Government and set up a Communist dictatorship.

Question 17

What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

Answer 17

It surrendered much Russian land and resources to Germany and pulled Russia out of World War I.

Question 18

Explain the Gallipoli Campaign.

Answer 18

It was planned by England’s First Lord of the Admiralty (Winston Churchill). It attempted to attack the weak side of the German empire, but failed.

Question 19

What were the German “unterseeboots”?

Answer 19

submarines, U-boats

Attacked from underwater

Question 20

What British luxury liner sank off the coast of Ireland after being hit be a torpedo from a German U-boat?

Answer 20

Lusitania

Question 21

What was the name given to pilots who shot down at least 5 enemy aircraft?

Answer 21

aces

Question 22

What proposed that Mexico and Germany from an alliance if America enter the war?

Answer 22

The Zimmermann Note

Question 23

What was the nickname given to American soldiers?

Answer 23

doughboys

Question 24

What is the name of the day that celebrated the end of World War I and when is it?

Answer 24

Armistice Day

November 11, 1918

Question 25

What are the Fourteen Points?

Answer 25

Fourteen points listed by President Wilson in a speech to Congress in January 1918, which proposed a new program of international relations and discussed the political and territorial future of Russia, Eastern Europe, and occupied counties in the west.

Question 26

What was proposed by President Wilson "to guarantee international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security"?

Answer 26

League of Nations

Question 27

What treaty ended World War I?

Answer 27

The Treaty of Versailles