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WorksheetsWW1
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 50mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army ready for war?
a)
Militarism
b)
Alliance Systems
c)
Imperialism
d)
Protectorate
2.
What was Woodrow Wilson's plan for just and lasting peace?
a)
Fourteen points
b)
4 Main Points
c)
3 main sections
d)
Forty Points
3.
What was the nickname given to WW1?
a)
The Great War
b)
World War Premier
c)
The First World War
d)
War 1
4.
What war hazard affected the feet resulting in toes rotting and amputations?
a)
Trench foot
b)
Trench Mouth
c)
Amputation disease
d)
Boll weevils
5.
What year did the United States join the war?
a)
1914
b)
1917
c)
1914
d)
1919
6.
Damages from the war are known as this.
a)
Reparations
b)
Repayments
c)
Repair
d)
Rations
7.
This was constructed at the Paris Peace Conference, signed between the Allies & Germany which ended World War I.
a)
Treaty of Versailles
b)
Treaty of Paris
c)
Treaty of Schlieffen
d)
Treaty of Hamburg
8.
This is the term for a contest for colonies which occurred during the late 19th Century amongst European nations and America.
a)
Imperialism
b)
Protectorate
c)
Militarism
d)
Alliance Systems
9.
What is a form of combat in which soldiers dug trences, or deep ditches, to seek protection form enemy fire and to defend their positions
a)
Guerilla warfare
b)
Trench warfare
c)
Ditch warfare
d)
Hole warfare
10.
Whose assassination was seen as a trigger of the war?
a)
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
b)
Baron Manfred con Richtoofen of Germany
c)
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
d)
The Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand
11.
What is nationalism?
a)
Extreme pride or devotion that people feel for their country or culture
b)
Quest for colonial empires
c)
Policy of military preparedness and building up weapons
d)
policy of not being involved incolved in the affairs of other nations
12.
Which country pulled out of WWI because they were dealing with a Bolshevik (communist) uprising?
a)
Russia
b)
Ukraine
c)
Soviet Union
d)
Yugoslavia
13.
In addition to the U.S., the Allies included:
a)
Great Britain, France, and Russia
b)
Great Britain, France, and Austria Hungary
c)
Germany, Russia, Great Britain
d)
Ottoman Empire, Germany, Russia
14.
Which group of people revolted against the Russian revolutionary provisional government in 1917?
a)
A. the Bolsheviks
b)
B. the Czarists
c)
C. the nobility
d)
D. the clergy
15.
Which leader was most influenced by Marxist ideology?
a)
A. Adolf Hitler
b)
B. David Lloyd George
c)
C. V.I. Lenin
d)
D. Woodrow Wilson
16.
Acting as a religious figure, which person gained significant influence over the Russian royal family during the early 20th century?
a)
A. Alexander Kerensky
b)
B. Vladimir Lenin
c)
C. Gregory Rasputin
d)
D. Leon Trotsky
17.
Why were tensions in Europe so high in the early 1900s?
a)
Socialists were taking over
b)
Nations were mobilizing for war
c)
Terrorism became very common
d)
Nations were refusing to trade with one another
18.
A major result of the Russian Revolution is that
a)
Russia won WW1
b)
Russia became a communist state
c)
The Romanovs regained power
d)
Russia became a democracy
19.
The Romanov family ruled Russia for hundreds of years before the 1917 Revolution. The last Czar's name was __________________.
a)
Vladimir Lenin
b)
Joseph Stalin
c)
Mahatma Gandhi
d)
Nicholas II
20.
The Romanov family came to be known for its harsh rule of the Russian people, using many tactics, such as ________________, to put down threats to its power.
a)
Strict censorship of any written documents
b)
Secret police watched universities and schools
c)
all of the above
d)
sending political enemies into exile in freezing cold Siberia
21.
Many groups resisted Lenin's Bolshevik revolution, and a Civil War between the __________ and ________ armies raged between 1918 and 1920, leading to the deaths of 2 million.
a)
Blue and Yellow
b)
Blue and Grey
c)
Little and Small
d)
White (conservative) and Red (Communist/Bolshevik)
22.
Lenin suffered a stroke in 1922 and _____________________ took this opportunity to seize power (1922-1927) and become dictator of the USSR.
a)
Leon Trotsky
b)
Nicholas III
c)
Rasputin
d)
Joseph Stalin
23.
A stalemate developed along the Western Front early in the war because...
a)
The United States immediately joined the war
b)
trench warfare made it difficult for either side to win an advantage
c)
the German army fought with outdated weapons
24.
The triple alliance forged by Bismark consisted of the following countries:
a)
Germany, France, Britain
b)
Austria, Germany, Poland
c)
Germany, Austria, Italy
d)
U.S, Germany, Russia
25.
In general, the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles focused mainly on
a)
increasing German power
b)
punishing Germany
c)
decreasing American influence
d)
punishing Serbia
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