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WorksheetsCCEH #34 WWI's Civilians, the Homefront, and an Uneasy Peace
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 21mins
WWI was a "______ war", meaning it wasn’t just something that affected soldiers. All citizens were mobilized to participate in the struggle—some on the battlefront and others on the so-called home front.
total
limited
cold
proxy
The phrase “_________ front” was coined during World War I, as a way of reminding people that even if they weren’t firing guns, they were still participating in a war.
Homefront
Western Front
Eastern Front
Southern Front
What are examples of goods produced on the home front?
munitions
weapons
food
All of the above
Which were some actions taken by government officials on various home fronts during WWI?
Rationing of food
Allocating raw materials to factories of their choice.
Censoring the public speech
All of the above.
Who became a large part of the work force at home due to the war dragging on for an extended period of time?
Women
Elderly
Children
POW's
What are some areas of civilian life that suffered due to long work hours and the high demand for manufactured goods for the war effort?
Care for children and the elderly became a huge problem.
Building and repairing infrastructure failed to happen.
Women struggled to feed themselves and their families.
All of the above
The beginning of WWI saw unity amongst many people groups such as socialists and feminists in many European countries.
True
False
The shift in gender roles caused by the war was accepted by most, especially men who felt their role was to fight at the front.
False
True
What highly underrated economic force wrecked economies across Europe causing prices to soar?
Inflation
Deflation
Interest rates
Spekulation
Trench warfare on the Western Front, the British naval blockade, and rationing led to a shortage for what for many civilians?
Food shortage
Ammo shortage
Water shortage
Information shortage
Hard times caused by the war led to a flourishing of what, as people looked to blame Jews for shortages of things like foodstuffs?
Anti-Semitism
Bolshevism
Socialism
Imperialism
The Russian and Central Power armies both pursued a ___ policy in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine to deprive each other of resources?
scorched earth
targeting of civilian
genocide
ethnic cleansing
Who suffered tremendously due to the destruction and scorched earth policies of armies during WWI?
Civilians
Soldiers
Politicians
Generals
Civilians displaced by the war were (are) known as?
refugees
immigrants
migrants
deportees
Did the armistice on November 11, 1918 bring a true end to the fighting?
False
True
What unexpected event added to the tragedy causing an estimated 100 million deaths world wide?
Spanish influenza
Russian Flu
The Stock Market Crash
Famine
After the armistice, Britain, backed by the United States, encouraged what country to invade the formerly Ottoman Empire (Turkey) sparking a bloody conflict?
Greece
Armenia
Syria
Lebanon
What region of Europe also remained a site of bloodshed as many soldiers refused to demobilize and formed paramilitary groups supporting the rise of new states to replace the defeated. Habsburg Empire?
Eastern Europe
Southern Europe
Western Europe
North Africa
In 1919 representatives from the victorious powers; Britain, France, Italy, the United States, and their allies met where to determine conditions for creating a “lasting peace” to end this “great war”?
Paris
London
Berlin
Nuremberg
Unlike the Congress of Vienna following Napoleon’s defeat in which France participated, the meeting in Paris excluded?
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottomans
Russia
This plan for peace proposed by US President Woodrow Wilson was perceived as naive by many due to its lofty terms.
Fourteen Points
Treaty of Versailles
The Monroe Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
The Peace of Paris, a collection of conferences between 1919 & 1923, involved how many treaties?
6
5
4
3
This treaty created small successor states such as Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Balkan States which would later become Yugoslavia.
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Treaty of Trianon
Treaty of Neuilly
Treaty of Versailles,
This treaty drastically shrank the size of Hungary.
Treaty of Trianon
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Treaty of Neuilly
Treaty of Versailles,
This treaty was the most famous treaty from the Peace of Paris. It stripped Germany of its colonies, imposed a massive penalty for warmongering and for bit it to have an air force or build an army bigger than 100,000. And importantly it also imposed a “war guilt” clause blaming Germany for the war.
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Treaty of Neuilly
Treaty of Trianon
Some historians maintain that the League of Nations should more appropriately be called the League of Empires. Instead of recognizing their promises the British did not give who their freedom in exchange or help in the war?
Arabs
Turks
Persians
Jews
Britain and France expanded their empires by taking oil-rich regions of the Middle East as _____ because the people were supposedly incapable of ruling themselves.
Mandates
Principality
Territories
Provinces
Despite the League of Nations being an American President’s idea, the. U. S. never actually joined it, which further weakened its ability to accomplish much on a global scale.
True
False
