Effects of the First World War Quiz

What did the Selective Service Act do during World War I?

• Drafted Americans into the war

• Provided financial aid to war veterans

• Negotiated peace treaties with other countries

• Organized war propaganda campaigns

Why did Woodrow Wilson propose the League of Nations?

• To establish a global economic alliance

• To promote cultural exchange between nations

• To provide aid to war-torn countries

• To keep peace around the world

Leader of the Bolsheviks who orchestrated the October Revolution with German help. Inspiration for Old Major the communist pig.

• Vladimir Lenin

• Leon Trotsky

• Joseph Stalin

The last Tsar of Russia, who was deposed during World War I:

• Nicholas II

• George V

• Wilhelm II

• Karl I

Deadly epidemic that killed 17+ million people in the last winter of World War I:

• Coronavirus

• Spanish Flu

• Bubonic Plague

• West Nile Virus

During World War I, the Ottoman Empire killed more than a million people trying to exterminate:

• the Armenians

• the Persians

• the Turks

• the Jews

During World War I, the U.S. government encouraged civilians to:

• Enlist in the army

• Ration food

• Buy war bonds

• All of the above

Not including disease, how many people died in World War I?

• 16 million

• 60 million

• 600 million

• 6 million

Which of the victors in WWI did not join the League of Nations?

• United States

• Russia

• Germany

• France

SELECT ALL ways that the Treaty of Versailles punished Germany.

• Germany was blamed for the war

• Germany was made to pay reparations

• Germany's armed forces were reduced and disarmed

• Germany lost territory