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Election of 1912 and beginning of WWI

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which person won the U.S. Election of 1912

a)

Teddy Roosevelt

b)

William Howard Taft

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Eugene Debs

2.

What was the name of the progressive political party formed by T. Roosevelt after he lost the Republican Party nomination?

a)

The G.O.P.

b)

The Bull Moose Party

c)

The Democratic Party

d)

The Pirate Party

3.

What is the name f the U.S. General put in charge of finding Pancho Villa?

a)

General Pershing

b)

General Mills

c)

General Motors

d)

General Dynamics

4.

The area between the trenches of opposing forces on a WWI battlefield were called?

a)

Ghost Land

b)

No Man's Land

c)

Demilitarized Zone

d)

Zone of Death

5.

WWI is sparked by the assassination of which individual?

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Franz Josef

c)

Wilhelm II

d)

Franz Ferdinand

6.

The biggest threat on the battlefield of WWI was?

a)

tanks

b)

machine guns

c)

airplanes

d)

artillery

7.

The German plan of attack for winning WWI was called?

a)

Blitzkrieg

b)

The Schlieffen Plan

c)

Operation Barbarosa

d)

The "Maximum Effort" Plan

8.

What year did WWI begin?

a)

1912

b)

1913

c)

1914

d)

1915

9.

What were the names of the two major alliances that were formed before WWI began?

a)

The Allies & The Axis

b)

The Triple Entente & The Triple Alliance

c)

The Empire & The Rebel Alliance

d)

The Justice League & The Avengers

10.

Which of the following are viewed as part of the M.A.I.N. causes of WWI? (select all that apply)

a)

Industrialism

b)

Imperialism

c)

Nazism

d)

Militarism

11.

Which Countries were members of the Triple Entente? (Select all that apply)

a)

Russia

b)

France

c)

Italy

d)

Great Britain

12.

Which two nations were in a naval arms race with each other prior to WWI? (2 answers)

a)

Germany

b)

France

c)

Great Britain

d)

Italy

e)

The United States

13.

Once the war begins, the two sides will be labeled....

a)

The Central Powers & The Allied Powers

b)

The German Empire & The French Alliance

c)

The European Powers & The American Powers

d)

The Triple Entente & The Triple Alliance

14.

This propaganda cartoon depicts....

a)

German liberation of Belgium

b)

German conquest of France

c)

German atrocities in Belgium

d)

German defense against France

15.

The collecting of WWI unexploded and rusted military equipment and munitions in the farm fields of France and Belgium is called....

a)

Iron Price

b)

Iron Maiden

c)

Iron Harvest

d)

Iron Man

16.

Which of the following gasses were was a blistering agent

a)

Mustard Gas

b)

Diphosgene

c)

Tear Gas

d)

Phosgene

17.

The name of the Red Baron (German WWI flying ace) was?

a)

Alfred von Schlieffen

b)

Paul von Hindenburg

c)

Heinz Guderian

d)

Manfred von Richtofen

18.

The Central Powers included the following (check all that apply).

a)

Germany

b)

the UK

c)

Russia

d)

Austria-Hungary

e)

The Ottoman Empire

19.

The Paris Gun, a large cannon produced by Germany to attack Paris had a range of roughly ___?

a)

18 miles

b)

50 miles

c)

80 miles

d)

100 miles

20.

The charge across No Man's Land was known as?

a)

going "over the top"

b)

"jumping the shark"

c)

"crater hopping"

d)

getting "the whole 9 yards"