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WWI

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An aggressive preparation for war that includes: arms race, training of troops, & supplies needed for combat is.....

a)

Imperialism

b)

Militarism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Weaponization

2.

When two or more countries come together to create an agreement between them to work with one another in case of rival countries instigate a threat can be called...?

a)

Nationalism

b)

Militarism

c)

Alliances

d)

Power struggles

3.

Countries competing for territory, land and supplies in foreign regions is also known as...?

a)

Nationalism

b)

Alliances

c)

Capitalism

d)

Imperialism

4.

Having pride in your country and support for its interests, is known as....?

a)

Nationalism

b)

Imperialism

c)

Patriotism

d)

Symbolism

5.

The spark that ignited the world into WWI, due to the 2nd in command of Austria-Hungary being murdered by a Serbian Nationalist was the...?

a)

Assassination of Vlad Tepes

b)

Assassination of Hans Zimmer

c)

Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

d)

Assassination of Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov

6.

Which countries were the Allied Powers?

a)

Germany, Ottoman Empire, and Japan

b)

Great Britain, France, and Russia

c)

Great Britain, Germany, and Canada

d)

U.S.A, Russia, and China

7.

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria were known as the ......?

a)

Allied Powers

b)

Mega Powers

c)

Central Powers

d)

Axis Powers

8.

The use of dug-in areas that was used to slow down the progression of WWI and led to stalemates is called...?

a)

Contemporary warfare

b)

Mobile warfare

c)

Guerilla warfare

d)

Trench warfare

9.

Weapons that made WWI, the "War to end all Wars" the deadliest war in human history are.....?

a)

Cannonball, muzzleloader, and the slingshot

b)

The atomic bomb, machine gun, and the U-boat

c)

bombers, apache helicopters, Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM's)

d)

Machine gun, advanced artillery, submarine, poison/mustard gas and airplanes.

10.

What ship sunk by a German submarine led to further involvement in WWI while killing 128 Americans?

a)

Titanic

b)

Lusitania

c)

S.S. Minnow

d)

USS Maine

11.

What is the area between trenches called...?

a)

No Man's Land

b)

Home sweet Home

c)

The Badlands

d)

No Man's Island

12.

A message sent from Germany to Mexico about giving them land if they would attack the U.S. southern border and was named after its author...?

a)

Morse telegram

b)

Alexander Bell Telegram

c)

Zimmerman Telegram

d)

The Kreiger instagram

13.

On February 1st of 1917, Germany used and resumed....?

a)

The A-bomb

b)

Unrestricted submarine warfare

c)

Heavy field artillery

d)

Mustard Gas attacks

14.

On April 2, 1917, which country entered the war with this action...?

a)

Wilson asked Congress to declare War

b)

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot

c)

The Luistania was sunk

d)

Pearl Harbor was attacked

15.

November 11, 1918 was known upon the full surrender of Germany to end WWI and later became known as...? Pick two

a)

Veteran's Day

b)

Armistice Day

c)

Yom Kippur

d)

Hanukkah

e)

Bastille

16.

American presidential plan to eliminate the need for war was called....?

a)

Wilson's 14 points

b)

Hitler's Mein Kampf

c)

Chamberlain's appeasement

d)

Krueger's five points

17.

What was used to get past wire and trenches on the WWI battlefield

a)

Airplane

b)

Tanks

c)

Wire cutters

d)

Funambulism walkers

18.

The total amount of causalities related to WWI is approximately above .....?

a)

15 million

b)

22 million

c)

33 million

d)

40 million

19.

President Wilson's plan for peace called for what?

a)

Creation of a League of Nations

b)

Creation of a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

c)

Worldwide voluntary disarmament

d)

Worldwide Isolationism

20.

Ways to avoid war were listed as: (check all that apply)

a)

Free trade and Freedom of the seas

b)

Disarmament and open diplomacy

c)

More colonialism

d)

Impartial countries claims to independence

e)

Arms races and radical nationalism