The First World War, Quiz #2

This was Germany's plan for victory during the First World War. It argued that if war took place it was vital that France was speedily defeated.

• Plan 17

• Operation Valkyrie

• Schlieffen Plan

• War Plan Red

The Second World War was a war of movement and territorial conquest. In contrast, the First World War is defined by this type of warfare.

• Chemical Warfare

• European Warfare

• Guerilla Warfare

• Trench Warfare

Most of the fighting of the First World War took part where the French and German armies collided in Northern France. This was the name given to the place where the fighting occurred and the two armies ‘dug-in.’

• Alsace-Lorraine

• Eastern Front

• The Argonne Forest

• Western Front

This was the most gargantuan battle in American history (up to that point). It was carried out from September to November 1918. It involved over 1.2 million American troops, the aftermath of which caused the battered Germans to surrender.

• Battle of Passchendaele

• Battle of the Somme

• Battle of Verdun

• Meuse-Argonne Offensive

One of Wilson’s goals at the Paris Peace Conference was the establishment of this international organization, which was meant to act as a “world parliament” that would prevent future world wars.

• International Court of Justice

• League of Nations

• United Nations

• World Peace Institute

President Woodrow Wilson, after much pressure from various women’s organizations, eventually supported woman suffrage arguing that it was,

• “a vitally necessary war measure.”

• “a way to psychologically damage the men and women of the Central Powers.”

• “the only course of action for a Democratic nation.”

• “what the Founders of the nation had originally meant when they declared that ‘all men are created equal.’”

This man was chosen to head the Food Administration during the First World War. He preferred to rely on voluntary compliance rather than compulsory edicts.

• Calvin Coolidge

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• J. Edgar Hoover

After the U.S. Congress declared war on Germany many Americans still believed that the United States would not be sending troops to Europe. Instead, America would use its,

• industry to support the war effort in Europe

• monetary reserves to financial support the Allied nations

• navy to support freedom the seas

• navy to transport goods and ammunition to Europe

Upon entry into the First World War the United States developed this system to protect commercial vessels and passenger ships from U-boats that were roaming the Atlantic Ocean.

• Battleship triangle system

• Convoy system

• Nautical defense system

• Poseidon system

Wilson eventually supported the passage of this act which drafted all males between the ages of 18 to 45. It registered 24 million men, of which 2 million were eventually sent to Europe before the truce was signed.

• American Draft Act

• Patriotic Americans Act

• Selective Service Act

• U.S. Conscription Act