World History Semester 2 Exam Review

Which of the following best describes Germany’s position for much of the WWI?

• Germany would fling sauerkraut into allied trenches to gas them out.

• Germany faced war on two fronts.

• Germany did not have a military strategy for this war.

• Germany was a neutral country.

• Germany successfully implemented the Schlieffen plan and won.

Why did both sides in World War I turn to new weapons?

• because trench warfare had led to a stalemate

• because there were not enough weapons to arm the millions of soldiers

• because advances in radar technology made bombers almost useless

• combat the Spanish Flu

Many colonial people volunteered to fight for the Allied forces because they

• hated Communism.

• hoped their service would win their colony’s independence.

• to get free Spice Girl tickets

• become extras on Doctor Who

What was the Zimmermann Note?

• a proposal by a German official that Mexico attack the United States in return for territory

• the German policy of attacking all ships entering or leaving Great Britain

• A poem written by Peyton Zimmermann

• German recipe for wartime mustard gas

The partnership formed between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the late 1800s was called the

• Triple Entente.

• Triple Alliance.

• Sausage union

• Pastry Pact

France, Russia, and Great Britain made up the

• Triple Entente.

• Triple Alliance.

• The sausage union

• Pastry Pact

What was the immediate result of trench warfare?

• an easy victory for the Allied Powers

• massive deadlock/stalemate

• an easy victory for the Central Powers

• All tall people were shot first because they were taller than the trenches.

Which best describes conditions in Russia on the eve of World War I?

• Russia was a troubled country, with a worsening economy and an ineffective ruler.

• The provisional government that was put into place after the revolution resisted entering the war.

• Everyone was given peace and and bread

• Lenin died in a train accident and never started the USSR

Bolsheviks planned that which of the following groups would lead a revolution and rule Russia?

• nobles

• socialists

• White walkers

• House Tyrell

Allied treaties with the defeated Central Powers accomplished which of the following?

• They broke apart Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.

• They forced every nation to pay retribution into a world fund for maintaining peace.

• They consolidated Russian ethnic groups into the Soviet Union.

• They turned the Ottoman Empire into the Footstool Republic. :-) Get it?!