World War I

World War I began in ____ and ended in _____.

• 1914, 1917
• 1917, 1918

• 1914, 1918

Which document officially ended World War I?

• Treaty of Paris
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Treaty of Versailles
• Potsdam Treaty

How did World War I begin?

• someone despised others' religious beliefs
• assassination of Austria-Hungary's royal family
• they sunk another country's ships
• soldiers crossed the border and fought with each other

What word means a piece of land between the trenches that no one side of the war controls?

• policy of isolation
• neutral
• no-man's-land
• ally

What word means to stay separate from other countries?

• policy of isolation
• neutral
• no-man's-land
• ally

What word means to not take sides?

• policy of isolation
• neutral
• no-man's-land
• ally

Russia, Great Britain, and France were all part of the

• Allied Powers
• Central Powers
• Axis Powers
• Neutral Powers

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were all a part of the

• Central Powers
• Allied Powers
• Axis Powers
• Neutral Powers

Which region was known as a "powder keg" prior to World War I?

• Iberian Peninsula

• Balkan Peninsula

• Western Europe

• Germany

The "spark" that was an immediate cause of World War I was

• The sinking of the Lusitania
• The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Increased nationalism
• The Zimmerman Telegram