History 14:1,2,3,4,5

Armistice

(Cease fire) ended war to all wars

What sort of solution did the American President Wilson push for regarding the war?

A "peace without victory" for all

How did the Kaiser of Germany leave the throne?

Abdicated throne

Which of Wilson's Fourteen Points was most thoroughly accomplished?

An international association of nations was created to guarantee peace

The governments of which of the following warring countries collapsed during the war due to internal conflicts or revolutions (choose all that apply)?

Austria Hungary Germany Russia Ottoman Empire

Which two countries tried to reduce nationalism in their countries and why

Austria Hungary and the ottoman empire did this since their empires were multicultural

Which country did the Serbs see as foreign oppressors?

Austria-Hungary

Which country was the first to declare war?

Austria-Hungary

Slavic nationalism represented a threat to what larger, multi-ethnic Great Powers of Europe? (Select both)

Austria-Hungary The ottoman empire

Britain became involved in the war only after the Germans invaded which neutral nation?

Belgium

which nation maintained worlds largest navy to protect trade

Britain

What did the great powers believe modern war was won by

Efficiency in transportation and detailed plans for war

Describe the collapsing morale

Even with propaganda war was still devastating, morale was low, high debts, and military suffered from desertion and mutiny

T/F All the members of "The Big Three" were supportive of President Wilson's Fourteen Point plan.

False

The Schlieffen Plan called for the rapid German defeat of which country?

France

Which three Great Powers formed the entente which later became the Allied powers of World War I? (Select all three)

France GB Russia

At the same time, aggressive and hostile nationalism was particularly strong between what two major powers in Europe?

France and Germany

What was the name of the assassin that killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie?

Gavrilo Princip

After the war, which country did the Allies blame for the war?

Germany

Which country gave Austrian demands their full support- essentially a "blank check?"

Germany

Which country was forced by treaty to accept the full blame for World War I?

Germany

Which country's emerging economic power particularly threatened the British in the early 1900s?

Germany

Which of the major warring nations did NOT impose universal military conscription in order to raise troops for the war?

Great Britain

Which country in the Central Powers alliance switched sides and joined the Allies, attacking its former partners?

Italy

Which Allied powers were notably upset by the peace treaties that ended World War I (choose all that apply)?

Italy Japan Russia

Which nation took advantage of the Europeans' distraction and attacked German positions in China after joining the Allies?

Japan

Which of these weapons systems was NOT new in World War I?

Long range artillery

The Zimmermann Note was an attempt by Germany to get what nation to enter the war on their side?

Mexcio

Describe battle of corporetto

Most significant battle in Italy where Italians were routed by Germans and austrians

What later replaced imperial states

New republics

How did modern technology impact the war?

New weapons made the war more deadly

What was the area between the opposing trench lines called?

No mans land

What do we call the sentiment which is opposed to all war and/or violence?

Pacifism

What was the idea, popular in Russia, that all Slavic peoples shared a common nationality?

Pan-slavism

In the early 1900s, many people supported movements and organizations devoted to

Peace

What is it called when a country or organization spreads information to either promote a cause or damage an opposing cause?

Propaganda

Which was the least industrialized of the Great Powers of Europe, and thus struggled to supply its own troops?

Russia

In what way did the Germans' Schlieffen Plan go wrong- almost from the beginning?

Russia attacked, and Germany had to send some troops east to defend Prussia

The famous assassination that started the First World War occurred in what city?

Sarajevo

A global pandemic of what disease/illness swept the world in 1918?

Spanish Flu

Unrestricted German use of what types of weapons was one of the factors that brought America into World War I on the Allied side?

Submarines

At the end of the war, women's participation in the war effort helped them finally win

Suffrage

Where was the first world court set up to help nations resolve disputes?

The Hague (Netherlands)

What treaty did Lenin sign to end Russian involvement in World War I?

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Which of the major powers of the post-World War I world refused to sign the League of Nations treaty created by America's President Wilson?

The US

Although we refer to World War I or the First World War, what did the people and newspapers of the day call the war that raged between 1914 and 1918?

The great war

Which famous book blamed the war on the seeming impossibility of stopping the momentum of the war once it began?

The guns of august

What helped determine "survival of the fittest"

The rise of militarism which was embraced and saw as romantic adventure. Therefore, European powers expanded militaries creating arms race and tension

What critical role did women play in total war economies?

They replaced men as workers in fields and factories

What happened to the various colonies of Germany and the Middle Eastern territories of the Ottoman Empire after the war?

They were awarded to the victorious Allied powers as mandates

Why would both sides during war use mass attacks

To try and break through hoping to end stalemate and win

What were other nations unhappy with

Treaties and signing treaties that placed a negative burden on them

The entry of which country into the war saved the Allies from being defeated by the new German offensive of 1918?

United states

What was the name of the terrorist group that assassinated the archduke Franz Ferdinand?

Unity or Death (Black hand)

What was referred to as a "biological necessity of the first importance?"

War

Serbia became part of what newly-created southern European kingdom?

Yugoslavia

Even though emperor Franz Joseph was reluctant to go to war over the death of Archduke his govt saw this as...

an opportunity to crush remaining Serbian opposition

What did the people of the European colonies hope to gain by fighting for the Europeans?

freedom

Which of the following were part of President Wilson's Fourteen Points peace proposal? (Mark all that are correct)

freedom of trade, an end to secret treaties

Why did France and Germany fight over Morocco

improved french relations with Britain

Additional Questions

just a dividing slide (ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS)

What type of warfare dominated the Western Front?

trench warfare

Describe serbia and russia relationship

worked together since both were Slavic countries and Serbia knew they could not loose and make Russia look foolish to Europe