World War 1 Week One Review

Identify the following statements that are causes of World War 1.

• Nationalism, a devotion to the interests and culture of one’s nation, led to competitive and antagonistic rivalries among nations.

• America was asleep at the wheel on this one folks...

• African nations were in the midst of another takeover of Europe in hopes to exploit the continent's natural resources.

• European nations had been building empires, slowly extending their economic and political control over various peoples of the world. Colonies supplied the European imperial powers with raw materials and provided markets for manufactured goods. Germany saw itself as Britain's rival.

• Militarism, the development and modernization of armed

  forces, allowed countries like Britain, Germany, and France to protect trade routes and create alliances with smaller nations in exchange for protection.

Why do you think Germany

escalated its U-boat attacks

in 1917? (More than one response.)

• Germany manufactured more U-boats in it's period of military build up to strengthen it's chances of winning World War 1.

• Germany was allied with the Ottoman Empire who had a weak navy.

• Germany was hoping to minimize the effects of the British Blockade.

• The French Navy was limited in it's naval strength.

The assassination of _____________ _____________ ___________ by a Serbian Nationalist group called the Black Hand.

During World War 1,__________ _________, in which armies fought for mere yards of ground, continued for over

three years

Which of the following are examples of various groups of Americans opinions on the U.S. entering World War 1.

• Socialists criticized the war as a capitalist and imperialist struggle between Germany and England to control markets and colonies in China, Africa, and the

  Middle East.

• Anarchists, such as British philosopher John Lydon, believed war was just as useless as government.

• Pacifists, such as lawyer and politician William

  Jennings Bryan, believed that war was evil and that the

  United States should set an example of peace to the world.

• Some Americans of German descent sympathized with Germany.

• Americans of Irish descent remembered the centuries of British oppression in Ireland and saw the war as a chance for Ireland to gain its independence.

Which statement describes U.S. exports, or U.S. goods purchased by foreign nations, during World War 1?

• U.S. exports decreased the most between 1918 and 1919.

• U.S. exports increased from a little more than 2 billion dollars a year in 1914 to nearly 8 billion dollars in 1919.

• U.S. exports decreased from a little more than 2 billion dollars a year in 1914 to nearly 8 billion dollars in 1919.

• U.S. exports decreased from a little more than 8 billion dollars a year in 1914 to nearly 2 billion dollars in 1919.

Which of the following are reasons that the U.S. entered World War 1?

• President Woodrow Wilson opposed the war because he didn't believe in it, and refused to sell American weapons to either side.

• The sinking of the British liner the Lusitania, off the southern coast of Ireland in which 1,198 persons lost, and 128 were American.

• The Zimmermann note, which was a telegram from

  the German foreign minister to the

  German ambassador in Mexico that was

  intercepted by British agents. The

  telegram proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany and promised that if war with the United States broke

  out, Germany would support Mexico in

  recovering “lost territory in Texas, New

  Mexico, and Arizona.”

• The sinking of four American merchant ships by German U Boats resulting in 36 civilian deaths.