The Great War

Question 1

What are the MAIN causes of WWI

Answer 1

Militarism, Alliance System, Imperialism, and Nationalism

Question 2

How does Militarism cause the war?

Answer 2

Countries focus on having giant, powerful militaries, want to be better than other countries, and keep building them up. Want to use the weapons

Question 3

How do alliances cause the war?

Answer 3

Going to break Europe into two sides, instead of it being a small war alliances will come help and cause it to a domino effect of countries joining.

Question 4

Who was part of the allies alliance?

Answer 4

France, Great Britain, Italy, United States, Russia

Question 5

Who was part of the central powers?

Answer 5

Ottoman Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary

Question 6

How would imperialism cause the war?

Answer 6

Germany wanted to get colonies, and England and France wanted to keep theirs. The winner would get control of all of them

Question 7

What is nationalism?

Answer 7

Intense pride in your country or ethnic group

Question 8

How does nationalism cause the war?( 2 ways)

Answer 8

Made countries feel superior and were sure they would win a war

-Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in an attempt to free Bosnia from Austria-Hungary

Question 9

What is the difference between dividing and unifying nationalism?

Answer 9

Unifying- want to bring nations/ethnic groups together

Dividing- want to break away from empire to form own nations of ethnic groups

Question 10

What was the spark of the war?

Answer 10

The assassination of Archduke Franz Fernandid of Austria-hungary by the Black Hand

Question 11

What is the black hand?

Answer 11

Terrorist organization in Serbia that wanted unify all Serbs together

Question 12

Who was Gavrilo Princip?

Answer 12

Black hand member who killed Franz Fernandid

Question 13

When did the war officially start?

Answer 13

July 28th, 1914.

Question 14

Who declared war first? Why.

Answer 14

Austria- Hungary on serbia= Serbia would not help with finding black hand members after the assassination

Question 15

Who came to help Serbia? Why.

Answer 15

Russia- saw Serbia as their little brother to protect since similar ethnicity

Question 16

Who came to help Austria-Hungry. Why?

Answer 16

Germany gave them the blank check to fight to war
Wanted more power in the world

Question 17

Who came to help Russia? Why.

Answer 17

France, did not want Germany to get power and gain more land from France

Question 18

What were Germany’s military strategies called? What was it supposed to stop Germany from having to do?

Answer 18

Schiefflan plan
Fight a two-front war( split their military in half and fight on both sides of their borders)

Question 19

How was it supposed to work?

Answer 19

Germany would attack France first through Beligum since France had defensive up along the German/French border. Then after quickly beating France can turn attention towards Russia

Question 20

Why did it not work?

Answer 20

Belgium fought back= brought Britain into the war
Russia attacked faster than they had planned with the help of France

Question 21

Why did Britain get pulled into the war?

Answer 21

Allied with Belgium

Question 22

Who fought on the eastern front?

Answer 22

Russia vs Germany/ Austria-Hungary/ Ottomans

Question 23

What type of fighting did they use? Why( 2 reasons)

Answer 23

Civil war style fighting
Russia was not industrialized yet
Allies could not get Russia industrialized items to help

Question 24

What was no man’s land?

Answer 24

Area in between the two sides of trenches that were filled with artillery shells/mud. Barbed wire

Question 25

Who fought in the western front.

Answer 25

Allies( Britain/ France/ USA) vs Germany

Question 26

What type of style of fighting did they use? Why!

Answer 26

Trenches/ MACHINE GUNS USED

Question 27

How did the fighting in WWI differ from previous wars in Europe?

Answer 27

New technologies made the war more defensive and more deadly. More people in the world made a lot more people fight. IMperialism made colonies come which made it a world war.

Question 28

Why were tanks used? Were they effective?

Answer 28

To transport troops across no man’s land without getting shot Not / break down/ slow/ no weapons/ no ventilation

Question 29

How were airplanes used at first? Later? What were the problems?

Answer 29

To gather information about the enemy (reconnaissance) No protection for pilots

Question 30

How was barbed wire used?

Answer 30

To funnel soldiers into one area to be shot at with machine guns

Question 31

What were artillery shells used for?

Answer 31

To destroy the trenches of the enemies to force them out

Question 32

What caused shell shock? What did it look like?

Answer 32

Artillery shells/ trenches Lost control of body movements/ mind

Question 33

Poison gas- how effective was it? What did it do to soldiers?

Answer 33

Not very effective- killed less 1% of the deaths Left with scars, PTSD

Question 34

Why were submarines deadly during the war?

Answer 34

Did not have sonar to detect them Could not hold hostages - had to shoot to kill

Question 35

How did people in colonies help with the war?

Answer 35

Colonists were brought in to fight from all colonies

Question 36

What were the reasons why America joins the war?

Answer 36

Germans changed from targeting supply ships to targeting passenger ships and trying to kill civilians, which turned Americans against them Zimmerman telegraph Loaned allies money

Question 37

Why did Russia drop out of the war?

Answer 37

Russia had not industrialized, and they weren’t able to have the allies ship them goods and weapons. They were doing so bad in the war, their people overthrew their government to get out of the war. Signed treaty with Germany to end fighting- gave upland

Question 38

What was the effect of that on the war?

Answer 38

Germany was able to move troops to focus on the western front

Question 39

What were the effects of the war on Europe?

Answer 39

Death 8.5 million, the Allies, 17 million total Destruction of Europe ( farmlands, cities, factories) Wounded soldiers

Question 40

When does the war officially end?

Answer 40

11/11/11, 1918

Question 41

What treaty brought the war to a close?

Answer 41

Treaty of Versailles - ended with GERMANY

Question 42

Who was involved in making the treaty to end the war? What did they want?

Answer 42

France - Totally destroy Germany Britain - Gain colonies and make Germany weaker Italy - Gain some land United States - Be fair to everyone, let people decide for themselves who rules them, and create the League of Nations

Question 43

Who was NOT involved in making the treaty?

Answer 43

Germany - They lost, so they weren’t able to be in the negotiations Russia - They quit early and were communist now, so we didn’t trust them

Question 44

What was the War Guilt Clause?

Answer 44

Germany was forced to admit being solely responsible for WWI

Question 45

What was the effect of the War Guilt Clause on Germany?

Answer 45

It made Germans resent the allies and were forced to pay $64 billion to the allies to rebuild Half to France alone

Question 46

What happened to Germany's colonies?

Answer 46

They all got taken away from them- given to the winners of the war

Question 47

What happened to Germany's military?

Answer 47

German army reduced to 100,000 troops, no Air Force, Navy, or tanks, no draft Germany was no longer allowed to produce any kind of war material Had to give navy to Britain

Question 48

What were the lasting long-term effects of WWI? (4)

Answer 48

Colonial revolts started to spread, marking the beginning of the end of imperialism The last remaining monarchies in Europe collapsed and were replaced by democracies The rise of Communism in Russia Germany resentful Italy resentful Middle east divided up and control by Europe The balance of power in the world shifted Europe neared bankruptcy, the United States became a world power

Question 49

How did WWI help cause the Armenia Genocide in Turkey?

Answer 49

Ottoman empire was losing to Russia in the region where ethnic armenians lived. They blamed the losses on Armenias and said had to get rid of them to win war.