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WorksheetsWW1 Review
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 3600secs
Who was President of the U.S. during World War 1?
Franklin Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Which of the following was NOT a member of the Triple Alliance?
Russia
Austria Hungary
The Ottoman Empire
Germany
The main type of warfare used in World War 1 was?
Guerilla warfare
Trench Warefare
Dogfights
Unrestricted Warfare
Which of the following was NOT a cause of World War 1?
Militarism
Secret Alliances
The Great Depression
Nationalism
Imperialism
The Lusitania was a British passenger ship that was
sunk by a German U-boat
used to rescue Tsar Nicholas II and his family
sunk by the French navy
was part of a U.S. convoy to Britain
With whom did the U.S. trade with before entering the war?
Non-Combatants
Both the Allies and the Central Powers
The Central Powers
The Allies
The Germans tried to stop supplies from reaching the Allies by
Using jet planes to shoot down U.S. cargo planes
Threatening to use sanctions
using propaganda
using U-boats to sink merchant ships
American forces were not successful in the early months of the war because
The British refused to allow allow American soldiers in their trenches
The Americans were inexperienced
The French trenches were too small
The Germans were invincible
Trench warfare can best be described as
A fun game the enemy forces used to relieve stress
A tactic used by the Germans ONLY on the Eastern Front
Being able to only take small parcels of land at a time while incurring many casualties
A new tactic in warfare where large sums of land can be won with few casualties
Prior to the war, which country was NOT a member of the Triple Entente?
Russia
The United Kingdom (England)
The United States
France
The US government was able to raise money for the war effort by
Selling Liberty/War bonds
Raising taxes on American corporations
Raising taxes on the American People
Having a bake sale at the Statue of Libery
Many Americans supported the war effort by
Making their own clothes
Attacking German-American citizens on the street
Growing Victory Gardens
Electing anti-war candidates to office
When World War 1 broke out, what was America's response?
It joined the Allies
It joined the Central Powers
It refused to traded with either side
It declared neutrality
When it became clear The Central Powers were going to lose the war, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II:
committed suicide
switched sides and attacked Austria-Hungary
Abdicated the throne and fled to Holland
Married his high school sweetheart
What is an Armistice?
A cease-fire
A peace treaty
An Arms Embargo
An escalation of Violence
What event drew the U.S. into the war?
The Central Powers refused to pay their debts
Germany sent the " Zimmerman Note" to Mexico
Britain attacked American ships
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated
U.S. soldiers and supplies were shipped to Europe by way of
Convoys
Huge cargo planes
Armed gunboats known as Jeffs
the Pacific Ocean and Arctic Ocean
Which of the following was NOT a member of of the Big Four at the Paris Peace Conference?
Vitorio Orlando (Italy)
Woodrow Wilson (U.S.A.)
Georges Clemenceau (France)
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany)
In 1918, what occurred on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month?
World War 1 began
World War 1 ended
The Armistice was signed
Rasputin died
President Wilson's plan for a lasting European peace was known as
United Auto Workers
Geneva Accords
Paris Peace Accords
The Fourteen Points
In 1917 Russia withdrew from World War I because of
The destruction of their Navy
A disagreement with the other Allies
The Bolshevik Revolution
The lack of enough soldiers to fight
The most decorated soldier in World War 1 was
Alvin York
George Patton
John J. Pershing
George Creel
The League of Nations was never a powerful body that could enforce peace because
It had no money
The U.S. did not join
Russia never recovered from WWI
America wanted to destroy Europe
Russia entered the war and pledged their support to the Allied Powers because of a common heritage with:
Britain
Austria-Hungary
France
Serbia
President Wilson disagreed with many of the terms of the Versailles Treaty but went along in order to get :
A seat on the Board of Government
The League of Nations
An assurance that the Allies would repay their loans
A spiked helmet like the German officers wore
Which of the following WAS a cause for the Great War
Economic turmoil in Asia
Shooting down of neutral planes
Deteriorating relations between France and Englan
A growing sense of Nationalism
At the time, WW1 was referred to as the
Great War
Astro-Serbian War
War of Aggression
European Conflict
Biased, one sided information designed to persuade the public is called
Nazism
Self-determination
Propaganda
Armistice
Which of the following was NOT a member of the Central Powers?
Germany
Bulgaria
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Who was the leader of The American Expeditionary Forces?
Alvin C. York
George S. Patton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John J. (Black Jack) Pershing
The Area between the trenches in which few soldiers could survive during an offensive attack?
Over the top
Area 51
No Man's Land
Land of the Lost
The most powerful nation in the World at the end of WWI was
Russia
Germany
Italy
The United States
The Selective Service Act was a means of
Getting money to support the war effort
Drafting young men for the military forces
Getting women to take over men's jobs
Getting jobs for men after military service
A common disease on all sides of the war effort that was evidenced by severe infection and sometimes loss of limbs
Trench Foot
Foot and mouth disease
Tuberculosis
Influenza
Who was heir to the Austria-Hungarian Empire, whose assassination by the Black Hand started WWI.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Wilhelm
Abe Lincoln
The Red Baron
As a direct result of the Russians pulling out of the war, Germany
Sent all of their remaining troops to the Western front to fight the Allies
Sent all of their remaining troops to the Eastern front to fight the Allies
Was motivated to sign a peace agreement with the remaining Allied powers
was renamed Disneyland and Donald duck became the Kaiser
In 1915 Italy left the Central Powers and joined the Allies
True
False
The U.S. goverment tried to get the public to support the war effort by
Hiring George Creel to spread pro-war propaganda
telling people that they would win the peace
Promising to withdraw by a specific date
having President Wilson marry his longtime sweetheart at a cemetery at the White House
Known as "The Black Death" Sergeant Henry Johnson survived 21 wounds and single handedly fought a German raiding party. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2015.
True
False
When was the armistice signed in World War I
November 14, 1919
November 11, 1918
October 14, 1919
October 11, 1918
On December 25, 1914 both the Allies and Central Powers called a truce. Soldiers on both sides celebrated and played soccer in No Man's Land
True
False
Known as the Mad Monk, who advised the Russian Royal Family and claimed to be able to heal Tsarvich Alexei's hemophilia?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Dr. Doolittle
Grigori Rasputin
Gavrilo Princip
Manfred von Richthofen was the deadliest fighter pilot in WW1. Credited with 80 combat victories, what infamous name was he given?
The Butcher of Verdun
The Red Baron
The Pizza Tsar
Bane of Snoopy
What was the name of the 19 year old Serbian nationalist who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife?
Rasputin
Tsar Nicholas
Alvin York
Gavrilo Princip
Which of the following weapons were first used in WWI
The Tank
The Machine Gun
The Airplane
Chemical Warfare/ Mustard Gas
All of the above
The longest serving American Unit in World War I was the
The 369th Infantry Regiment "The Harlem Hellfighters"
the 501st
The Rough Riders
The Buffalo Soldiers
The Great Migration was
The movement of 6 million African Americans from the Southern United States to urban cities in the North, West, and Mid-West.
The movement of unemployed workers in the North to the rich farmland of the Southern United States.
an outbreak of the Spanish Flu
Another name for WWI
In 1918 what deadly disease infected 500 million people worldwide?
Swine Flu
Black Plague
Measles
Spanish Influenza
On the First day of this battle the British forces lost 57,000 men.
The Argon Forest
The Somme
Flanders Field
Battle of Paris
This 1918 law made it a crime to criticize the U.S. Government and the war effort
The Selective Service Act
Treaty of Versailles
The Sedition Act
The 14 points
The German army helped this Communist Leader return to Russia because he promised to take Russia out of the war.
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Mao Zedong
Arrested under the Sedition Act of 1918, this American Socialist ran for President from his jail cell.
Eugene V. Debs
Al Smith
Woody Guthrie
William Jennings Bryan
Today known as PTSD what name was given to describe the trauma experienced by soldiers returning home from war?
Cooties
Kaiser's revenge
War syndrome
Shell Shock
Germany agreed to accept all blame for WWI and to repay 33 Billion dollars in War Reparations when they signed what treaty?
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Ghent
Treaty of Louisville
Treaty of Frankfurt
Someone with deeply held personal convictions who objects to serving in the armed forces is called what?
A war monger
A coward
A conscientious objector
A Patriot
Isolationist and leader of the Senate Republicans. He was an opponent of President Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
Mitch McConnell
Frank Lloyd Wright
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Cabot Lodge
The idea that American should focus its own problems and stay out of world affairs (Europe's Problems are Europe's problems) is called what?
Nationalism
Isolationism
Militarism
Imperialism
The international organization created under the Treaty of Versailles with the goal of preventing war was called?
The League of Nations
The Avengers
The Justice League
The Warsaw Pact
Through what country did the Germans march to try and reach Paris, France quickly?
The Netherlands
Switzerland
England
Belguim
The biggest problem faced by the Central Powers during World War I was
Having to fight a two-front war
Inferior weapons
Poor Intelligence
the Schlieffen Plan
