WorksheetsChapter 9: First World War
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 26mins
Who was the President of the United States during the First World War?
Grover Cleveland
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
_______ is the term defined as pride in one's nation, promoting it's causes, cultures, and interests.
Militarism
Imperialism
Alliances
Nationalism
Propaganda can be best described as
Fake News
Tabloid-like publications, celebrity gossip, etc.
Objective coverage of a news story, event, person, etc.
Providing information, ideas, and even more rumors to help or hurt a cause
The belief that a country needs a strong army is called
Imperialism
Nationalism
Militarism
Socialism
Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of WWI?
Otto von Bismarck
Kaiser Wilhelm
Adolf Hitler
George Clemenceau
What is known as an agreement among nations to defend one another?
Alliance
Nationalism
Militarism
Isolationism
The Germans called their submarines:
Convoy
U-Boats
Red Scare
Reparations
The assassination of ______ in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist was the spark that ignited the first world war.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Henry Cabot Lodge
Wilhelm II
Franz Ferdinand
Soldiers fought in long deep ditches dug for protection across from France from the English Channel to the border with Switzerland called _______.
Nuclear Warfare
Trench Warfare
Guerilla Warfare
Defensive Warfare
England, France, and Russia sided with the United States during World War I were known as the _______.
Allies
Central Powers
Germany along with Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire during World War I were known as ________.
Allies
Central Powers
What was the name of the British steamship that the Germans torpedoed and killed up to 100 United States citizens?
Sussex
Orlando
U-Boat
Lusitania
______ was the name for the barren region between opposing trenches in WWI.
No Man's Land
Armistice
Militariam
Convoy System
The movement of African Americans and other minorities to the northern U.S. during the war was the Great ________.
Awakening
Migration
Movement
Exodus
Which of the following was a new technology introduced to use in WWI?
U-Boats
Airplanes
Mustard Gas
All of the Above
The Sedition Amendment of 1918 prevented people from:
Criticizing the war
Avoiding the draft
Traveling the seas
Germans entering the U.S.
The Espionage and Sedition Acts affected freedom of speech because they:
Allowed the government to silence ideas that challenged its authority
Promoted biased ideas designed to sway peoples thinking
Forced the repeal the First Amendment
Forced restaurant to offer "liberty sandwiches" rather than hamburgers
What was the telegram called that Germany sent to Mexico that offered to help them win land back from the U.S. if Mexico would start a war with the U.S.?
Peace Plan
League of Nations
Trotsky Plan
Zimmerman Note
Private citizens created these to provide food for their homes while food from farms went to the troops overseas.
Private farms
Victory Gardens
Community Soup Kitchen
Supermarkets
What was the goal of Victory and Liberty Bonds?
To pay off American deby
To produce propaganda to support war
To bring unity to the U.S.
To finance the war effort
What is the name of an agreement to end fighting?
Alliance
Reparations
Armistice
Propaganda
Woodrow Wilson's goals for peace after World War I was known as _______.
Schlieffen Plan
Fourteen Points
Emancipation Proclamation
League of Nations
What is the name of the peacekeeping organization that was formed after World War I?
United Nations
Convoy System
Peace Project
League of Nations
Why did Americans not want to sign the treaty between them and Germany?
It forced them to join the League of Nations
It forced them to fight against Russia
It forced them to sell supplies to Germany
It forced them to become an ally of Germany
Wilson's purpose in proposing a League of Nations was to:
Prepare for WWII
Have countries settle disputes in non-violent ways
Create a World Army
Provide Europe with money to rebuild
_________ were known as payments for war damages.
Nationalism
Separatism
Reparations
Retaliations
Which treaty ended World War I?
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Berlin
Which country had to take full responsibility for WWI, pay reparations, lose most of its military, and be stripped of their colonial possessions?
France
Germany
Serbia
Austria-Hungary
When did the First World War end?
November 31, 1998
November 1, 1914
November 11, 1918
June 28, 1890
More people were killed by _____ than by World War I.
Submarine Warfare
Flu Pandemic
Hard labor in U.S. factories
Trench Foot
T/F: One cause of the Great War was the growth of imperialism
True
False
T/F: Britain established a blockade to intercept contraband
True
False
T/F: The incident that sparked World War I was the assassination of Woodrow Wilson
True
False
T/F: Trench warfare led to military stalemates during war
True
False
T/F: The Sussex pledge was issued after the sinking of the Lusitania
True
False
T/F: The Lusitania was a German submarine that sank several Allied ships
True
False
T/F: The Selective Service Act set in place a system for registering for the draft
True
False
T/F: The United States sent men and materials to Europe using the convoy system
True
False
T/F: Women working in war related fields received pay equal to that received by men doing similar work.
True
False
T/F: Herbert Hoover was in charge of the Food Administration during the war, promoting the use of victory gardens
True
False
DISCUSSION: Explain how WWI was different than all other wars that had come before it. (3-5 sentences)
DISCUSSION: Imagine you are a prominent U.S. political leader in 1919. Use each of the following terms CORRECTLY in a paragraph (5 sentences AT LEAST) that either supports or opposes the peace agreement that ended WWI.
(Fourteen Points, League of Nations, Treaty of Versailles)
