WorksheetsImperialism & WWI
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 16mins
Writing outlandish lies in order to sell newspapers
Yellow Fever
Yellow Journalism
Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Big Stick Diplomacy is when a country…
uses talking as a means of settling things
uses kidnapping as a means of negotiation
shows off its’ military might to intimidate
uses only bombs and never soldiers
What book did (Admiral) Alfred T Mahan write?
The Jungle
How the Other Half Lives
The Influence of Naval Power Upon History
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
President Roosevelt believed that having a canal through Central America would save time and money for commercial and military shipping and
necessary for maintaining influence in Asia
was vital to U.S. Navy & world trade
would benefit the people of Central America
would establish new markets in South America
What was the "spark" of WWI in Europe?
The assassination of Ferdinand.
Nationalist movements in the Balkans
Imperialism in Africa
The sinking of the Lusitania
One of the causes that made the United States think about joining the war happened on May 7, 1915, a German submarine torpedoed and sank
the Maine
The Titanic
The Lusitania
The Queen Mary
The first war time draft was implemented through the
espionage act
selective service act
sedition act
war board committee
Who accepted blamed for WWI in the Treaty of Versailles?
United States
Russia
Germany
France
According to the Treaty of Versailles war reparations were?
Payments Germany was forced to pay for war damages
Repairs and improvements made to Germany
Money that France would donate to Germany to help rebuild
Payments that Russia would give to the Ottoman Empire
The Senate refused the Treaty of Versailles because they feared that the obligation could
would end world trade
would give Germany too much power
would lose land for the U.S.
drag the U.S. into another war
Germany did not want to strengthen the Allies by drawing the U.S. into war, it agreed to certain conditions called the
Zimmermann Pledge
Peace Pledge
Sussex Pledge
U-boat Pledge
"Property can be paid for; lives cannot be."
According to the Quote, why should the United States declare war?
U.S. property was seized
U-boats attacks killed innocent people
U-boats have stopped all trade routes
People had been killed in their homes
How did the tank affect the course of WWI?
transport troops
break the stalemate
made communications easier
made landmines obsolete
To end the stalemate of trench warfare which technology was created
poison gas
machine guns
land mines
razor wire
Which of the following is a REASON for the Great Migration?
Job Opportunities
Better Education
To escape racism
Better fertile land for farming
What is the League of Nations?
An international organisation that helps to promote trade
An international organisation that aims to promote peace among the countries
An international organisation that will fight other countries
An international organisation that will bring hope and stability in the world
