Sem2 Final Study Game

What nation destabilized the balance of power in Europe in the years before World War I with its increasing military and industrial might?

• France

• Germany

• Great Britain

• Russia

What was the name of the alliance that Germany formed with Italy and Austria-Hungary in 1882 to protect itself from its neighbor France?

• The Reinsurance Alliance

• The Three Emperors' League

• The Triple Alliance

• The Triple Entente

As Ottoman power declined, the Balkan Peninsula became unstable due to

• French imperial ambitions in the region

• Religious rivalries between Muslims and Christians

• Russia's rivalry with the newly-formed nation of Serbia

• Ethnic nationalism among Balkan peoples

How did many Europeans react to the outbreak of war in August 1914?

• They blamed their governments for needlessly entering into war

• They braced themselves for what they knew would be a long, difficult fight

• They organized peace marches in opposition to the war

• They welcomed the war with patriotic celebration

With the Schlieffen Plan, Germany planned to win the war by

• Building defenses on their western border

• Quickly knocking France out of the fighting

• First invading and defeating Russia

• Relying on their allies to fight for them

New military technologies used during World War I resulted in

• A short but very destructive war

• Fewer civilian casualties

• The immediate development of new offensive tactics

• Unprecedented bloodshed

What was the result of fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula?

• Allied forces overwhelmed the German navy

• Trench warfare resulted in a stalemate

• Turkey was overrun by the Allies

• Turkish forces defeated the Allies

During the war, nations began to print a lot of paper money because

• They wanted to prevent inflation

• They had difficulty paying the costs of war

• They had no other way of affording reparations payments

• They wanted to flood foreign economies with worthless currency

Why did the United States remain neutral when World War I first broke out?

• American companies saw the war as an opportunity to sell supplies to both sides

• The United States had cultural ties to Britain, but it also had a large German-American population

• The United States saw the war as a purely European dispute

• All of the above

What German tactic eventually drew the United States into World War I?

• The bombing of American naval outposts

• The use of submarines against merchant ships

• The use of tanks on the Western Front

• The use of poison gas against civilians