Unit 7 Review: WWI

Front

Which long-term cause is best described as building up armed forces and glorifying military power?

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Militarism

Front

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand acted as the spark for WWI mainly because it triggered this existing system among European powers:

Back

Interlocking alliances

Front

In the MAIN acronym, which term refers to competing for colonies and global influence?

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Imperialism

Front

M stands for _______.

Back

machine guns

Front

Which MUTTAG innovation most directly created stalemate on the Western Front by making charges across open ground deadly?

Back

Machine guns

Front

No Man's Land was the area between opposing trenches. Why was crossing it so deadly during WWI?

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Exposed to machine-gun fire

Front

Tanks were introduced primarily to solve which trench warfare problem?

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Crossing trenches and barbed wire

Front

Early in the war, why did tanks cause panic among enemy troops?

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They were new and terrifying

Front

Which statement best describes a disadvantage of poison gas in WWI? Options: It was banned before any use, It was cheap and easy to deploy, It could not harm infantry, Effectiveness depended on weather

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Effectiveness depended on weather

Front

U-boats influenced the war by

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Threatening shipping with unrestricted attacks