WWI Test

Question 1

What type of government system was adopted in China and Mexico after revolutions in the earl 1900s (before WWI)

Answer 1

Democratic gov’t

Question 2

What years did the Great War take place?

Answer 2

1914-1918

Question 3

How are the core beliefs and actions of Jose de San Martin and Sun Yat-sen similar?

Answer 3

Desire for independence/nationalist movements

Question 4

Which nation and revolution were Porfirio and Francisco Villa associated?

Answer 4

Mexico

Question 5

What type of gov’t was adopted in Mexico with the singing of the Constitution of 1917?

Answer 5

Democracy

Question 6

Why were the Chinese unsuccessful wars including the Opium Wars and the Sino-Japanese Wars?

Answer 6

Lack of industry and limited technology

Question 7

What year and event marks the height of imperialism in Africa and Asia, meaning it began to decline after this marked event?

Answer 7

WWI 1914

Question 8

Why did Emperor Meiji decide to implement his restoration project?

Answer 8

Japan needed to industrialize after a long isolation

Question 9

Meiji acronym

Answer 9

Modernization, Emperor/Empire building, Imperialism, Japan, Industrialize

Question 10

Describe the effects of the Meiji Restoration on Japan

Answer 10

Began rapid empire building

Question 11

What was the goal and actual result of Commodore Mathew Perry’s “visit” to Japan in the 1850s?

Answer 11

Open trade/end of Japanese isolation

Question 12

What policy best describes the period when Japan closed in ports of trade?

Answer 12

Tokugawa Isolation

Question 13

Identify the leader of Japan during the Tokugawa period

Answer 13

Shogun/Shogunate

Question 14

Which two nations struggled for land in China during the Russo-Japanese War? Who won?

Answer 14

Russia vs. Japan; Japan won

Question 15

Why did several Europe nations join a system of alliances prior to WWI?

Answer 15

prevent war; protection; aid; balance of power

Question 16

Why did the existence of opposing alliances become a cause of WWI?

Answer 16

Domino effect; Bring several into conflict

Question 17

MAIN acronym

Answer 17

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

Question 18

Why was Archduke Ferdinand assassinated?

Answer 18

Black Hand “Serbian” opposed Austria- Hungary

Question 19

Identify the members of the Triple Entente

Answer 19

France, England, Russia

Question 20

Identify the members of the Triple Alliance

Answer 20

Italy, A-H, Germany

Question 21

Identify the main members of the Central Powers

Answer 21

Ottomans, Germany, A-H

Question 22

What event was the spark that started WWI?

Answer 22

Assassination

Question 23

What area of Europe is the “power keg” of WWI, where it erupted?

Answer 23

Balkins

Question 24

Identify the main members of the Allies

Answer 24

France, USA, England, Italy, Japan

Question 25

Why is imperialism and nationalism in Europe considered a major short-term cause of WWI?

Answer 25

Tension caused by competition for land and power

Question 26

List the TWO main reasons the United States entered into WWI

Answer 26

- sinking of the Lusitania 1915 | - Zimmerman telegram 1917

Question 27

What was the main purpose of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 27

Peace Treaty 1919; punishment to the Central Powers

Question 28

What was the main purpose of the League of Nations?

Answer 28

maintain peace- keeping orginzation

Question 29

Why were many Germans angry with the Treaty of Versailles for several reasons?

Answer 29

lost land, reduce military, 33 billion, reparation, war-guilt clause

Question 30

Which event brought about the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 30

WWI

Question 31

Jose de San Martin

Answer 31

South America; desire for self-rule, nationalist movements

Question 32

Sun Yixian/ Yat-sen

Answer 32

China; desire for self-rule, nationalist movements

Question 33

Fransisco "Pancho" Villa

Answer 33

Peasant leader during Mexican Revolution

Question 34

Emperor Meiji

Answer 34

After Perry, before WWI, modernized Japan

Question 35

Commodore Matthew Perry

Answer 35

USA- ended Japanese isolation

Question 36

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Answer 36

Heir to the A-H throne

Question 37

Armenians

Answer 37

victims of genocide by the Ottomans; Christians living in a Muslim empire

Question 38

Ottomons

Answer 38

Middle East Muslim; Central Powers; collapsed after WWI