Unit 4 study

Question 1

Which statement summarizes the Schlieffen Plan That Germany created to prepare for a two-front war?

Answer 1

Attack France first, Then Russia

Question 2

Around which body of water did the greatest number of new countries emerge after World War 1?

Answer 2

Baltic Sea

Question 2

What did the Central powers gain over Russia at the battle near Tannenberg?

Answer 2

Germany drove the Russians into full Retreat

Question 3

What happened to the countries Montenegro and Serbia?

Answer 3

They became part of Yugoslaia

Question 4

What impart did the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk have on germany?

Answer 4

It allowed germany to focus all their efforts on the western Front

Question 5

What did the war become once the participating countries began devoting all of their resources to the war effort?

Answer 5

Total war

Question 6

Which nation lost the most troops?

Answer 6

Germany

Question 7

Which of the following events occurred after the Americans joined the war?

Answer 7

The Bulgarians and the ottoman turks Surrendered

Question 7

How many more troops did the major allied powers lose than the major Centrals Powers?

Answer 7

1,349,000

Question 8

What were the Fourteen Points?

Answer 8

A Plan for the postwar world

Question 8

Which country was Formed out of two allied nations and part of a central power?

Answer 8

Yugoslavia

Question 9

Which country lost the smallest number of troops from battlefield deaths?

Answer 9

Switz land

Question 10

What was the American public’s opinion about joining the league of Nations?

Answer 10

It believed that the united states should stay out of European affairs

Question 11

Which of the Causes of world war 1 most helped shape postwar borders

Answer 11

Nationalism

Question 11

What was true of the combined losses of the United States italy, and the British Empire?

Answer 11

They were less than the losses of Russia

Question 12

Which nation’s actions caused the United states to fight in world war 1

Answer 12

germany

Question 13

How many more troops did the Allied powers have than the Central power?

Answer 13

19 million

Question 14

What did the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare refer to?

Answer 14

Germany’s policy to sink any ship in British waters without warning

Question 15

Which country was most simila to Russia in the number of battlefield deaths?

Answer 15

Germany

Question 16

What Was Significant in the Allied victory at the First Battle of the Marne?

Answer 16

It resulted in germany having to fight on two fronts

Question 17

Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the treaty of Versailles?

Answer 17

Germany

Question 17

How many did the war have on the economy of Europe?

Answer 17

It drained the Treasures of Europe

Question 18

How many Troops did Russia lose Even though it pulled out of the war early?

Answer 18

1,700,000

Question 19

Consider What you know about the two fronts of the war. What relationship existed between the battlefronts and the war deaths?

Answer 19

The Countries along the two fronts suffered the Highest Losses

Question 20

Which of the central powers had its territory least Changed by the war

Answer 20

Bulgaria

Question 21

What region was referred to as the “powder keg” of Europe?

Answer 21

The Balkan Peninsula

Question 22

How did the united kingdom change after World war 1

Answer 22

ireland gained self-rule

Question 23

Why did Bismarck seek alliances with that later became the triple alliance?

Answer 23

To Isolate France

Question 24

What new state was created between france and germany?

Answer 24

Saar

Question 25

What event Sarajeveo ignited the great war?

Answer 25

The Assassintion of Archduke Franz ferdinand and his wife Sophie

Question 26

Why were Germany and Austria-Hungary known as central Powers?

Answer 26

Because of their Location in the heart of europe

Question 27

After the war , which country had a province separted from it by States that had Gained independence?

Answer 27

Germany

Question 28

Which of following was a goal of the allies’s Gallipoli campaign?

Answer 28

To establish a supply line to Russia

Question 29

What major differences might be present on the postwar map had russia not pulled out of the war?

Answer 29

It might have retained its western boudary

Question 30

How did the allies respond to Wilson’s for peace?

Answer 30

Britain and france were concerned with strengthening thier own security, wanted to strip germany of its war-making power, and showed little sign of agreening to Wilson’s plan

Question 31

Who led germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of World war 1?

Answer 31

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Question 32

From which country did Czechoslovkia, Poland, and Yugoslavia Gain independence?

Answer 32

Austria-Hungary

Question 33

Why did italy refuse to support it ally germany?

Answer 33

It accused Germany of starting the war

Question 34

Which of the following Allies gained territory?

Answer 34

Italy

Question 35

What was Trench warfare intended to accomplish?

Answer 35

To protect soldiers From enemy gun fire on the front lines

Question 36

What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war?

Answer 36

Militarism

Question 36

Which of the following countries completely changed it’s name after World war 1?

Answer 36

Ottoman empire

Question 37

Which countries made up Europe’s Great Power?

Answer 37

Great Britain France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia and ltaly

Question 37

What newly independent country emerged on the Former eastern Front?

Answer 37

Poland 

Question 38

What is most probable link between militarism and imperialism?

Answer 38

As a country gains colonies, it military grows to protect them

Question 39

What action on Novermber 11, 1918 brought World war l to an end?

Answer 39

An Armistice was signed

Question 40

What countries each lost more than a million troops from battlefield deaths?

Answer 40

Austria-Hungary,France,Russia,Germany