World War I Unit Test

What was NOT a major long-term cause of World War I?

• militarism
• nationalism
• lack of global natural resources
• imperialism

New military technologies and the glorification of war were all part of…?

• imperialism
• nationalism
• militarism
• communism

Russia, France, and Britain all made up the…?

• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• The Balkans
• The Communist states

An alliance is…?

• an agreement between groups of people to provide financial support
• agreements to aide each other if attached
• an offensive attempt to seize new territory
• an imperialist method to spread democracy

Germany was…?

• a central power
• a neutral state
• one of the Balkans
• an allied power

Spain, Norway, and Sweden were all…?

• allied powers
• Balkan states
• central powers
• neutral states

What specific problem did the Balkan states face?

• lack of trading opportunities
• ethnic nationalism
• religious revolution
• government corruption

What was the immediate cause and initiation of World War I?

• the assassination of Austria's Franz Ferdinand
• a world economic crash
• Hitler's creation of Fascism
• Hitler's invasion of the Czech Republic

Which battle in northern France resulted in 1 million casualties between July and November 1916?

• Verdun
• The Somme
• The Marne
• Normandy

Who led the communist Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution?

• Vladimir Putin
• Vladimir Lenin
• Joseph Stalin
• Nikita Khrushchev