World War I Review

Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum presented to Serbia was the “spark” that ignited the Great War.

• True

• False

Czar Nicholas II was the leader of Austria-Hungary and was a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Czar Nicholas II was the leader of Russia.

The League of Nations was a peace plan by President Woodrow Wilson that led to the United Nations eventually.

• True

• False

A u-boat sank The ___________________________ killing 1200 people and 128 of them were Americans.

• Lusitania

• Titanic

• Armistice

• Alliance

The _________________________ending The Great War was signed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.

• Armistice

• Alliance

• Fight

• Titanic

Russia joined World War I because of a previous ___________________________ with Serbia.

• Alliance

• Armistice

• Fight

• Titanic

Which force best describes the motive behind Gavrilo Princip’s assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie?

• Militarism

• Alliances

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

What was the Zimmermann Note?

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

• Wilson’s speech detailing reasons why the United States should remain neutral

• a note left behind by a suicide bomber in Serbia

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

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

• Triple Alliance

• Triple Entente

• Eastern Block

• Central Powers

France, Russia, and Great Britain made up the

• Triple Entente

• Triple Alliance

• Eastern Block

• Central Powers