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A Little Narrative about World War 1
After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, European tried to maintain a balance of power among the continent’s
major nations to ensure peace. This policy was largely successful until the 1870s when a major European power
named Germany emerged from what had been the nation of __________. Over the next 30 years two major
alliances developed in Europe. One was called The Triple Entente, which was composed of France, Britain, and
________________. The Triple Entente was opposed by the __________Alliance which was composed of
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. This alliance system kept the peace until June 28, 1914, when Archduke
Ferdinand of _________________________was assassinated in Sarajevo by a_______________ nationalist.
Austria-Hungary then declared war on _____________. This was the match that lit the fuse of World War One.
When the war broke out, nations of the Triple Entente were on one side while the _________Powers (AustriaHungary and Germany). _____________, which had been Germany’s ally before the war, switched sides and
entered the war as an ally of the Triple Entente in 1915. The Ottoman Empire entered on the side of Germany.
The German war plan called for an attack on France through the neutral country of _____________. The
Germans advanced a long way but were stopped short of Paris At this point both sides started to dig extensive
lines of ___________ which turned the war into one of little movement on the Western Front. Meanwhile on
the _____________, the Germans decisively defeated the Russians at the Battle of Tannenberg. Though they
suffered horrendous losses, the Russians managed to divert German troops from the _____________________
and thus help save France. 1914 ended with the informal Christmas _________ on the Western Front. In 1915,
the British, supported by troops from Australia and New Zealand landed forces at __________________ in an
effort to open up the Black Sea and force the _____________ Empire out of the war. The attack was a complete
failure and the British finally________________. 1915 also saw the development of ____________ war which
required the mobilization of all the resources of a nation. Millions of ________ went to work making weapons
and ammunition. Britain imposed a naval blockade on Germany, which responded with unrestricted
_________________ warfare that targeted any ship going in or out of the British Isles. _______________ also
launched the first air raids on civilian targets in Britain and introduced the use of _____________ on the
Western Front. In 1915, the Turks also committed a ______________ of Armenians. In 1916, the Germans
launched an attack against the French at Verdun. The purpose of the attack was not to win territory so much as
it was to cause heavy _______________ among the French and force them to _____________. In July 1916,
the British Army launched a huge offensive against the Germans at the ______________.to relieve the pressure
on the French Together these two great battles resulted in 2 million _________, wounded, and missing. The
_______________ entered the war on the side of the Allies in April 1917. In March 1918, Russia signed a
peace agreement with Germany called the Treaty of _______________. Under this treaty, Russia turned over
control of lots of _________ to Germany. The Germans were outnumbered and faced massive __________.
But they saw one last chance to win the war, so in March 1918, they launched a massive attack on the British
and __________ lines on the Western Front, hoping to achieve a decisive breakthrough before the full weight of
the U.S. Army became involved in the war. The attack lasted for ______ months until July 1918 before it was
stopped. In September 1918, the allies counterattacked and broke through the German lines. Many Germans
surrendered and the rest of the German Army____________. Finally at 11 am on November 11, 1918, an
_______________ went into effect and the guns on the Western Front fell _____________. World War One
was over and the Allies were ____________ but _____ million soldiers were dead. The ____________ of
Germany, however, continued after the fighting stopped and so did the suffering. In the words of one German
soldier in the documentary, this generation had no ______________. World War One had profoundly changed
__________, and indeed, the world.
1. The chain of events that led to the Russian Revolution in 1917 can be traced to 1904-1905 war between
a. Russia and Germany
b. Germany and France
c.. Russia and the U.S.
d. Russian and Japan
2. In the early 1900s, the large majority of Russians were
a. industrialized workers
b. peasants
c. solidly middle class
3. By the end of 1916, the Russian Army
a. fought the Germans to a standstill on the battlefield
c. had suffered huge casualties and was disintegrating
d. slaves
b. was now well armed and in high morale
d. none of these
4. The event that sparked the March 1917 Revolution in Petersburg (Petrograd) was
a. a strike by women textile workers
b. the murder of Rasputin
c. the return of Lenin to Russia
d. the defeat of the Russian army at Tannenberg
5. The March Revolution forced Czar Nicholas II to
a. agree to an armistice
b. hold national elections
6. The Bolsheviks, led by V.I. Lenin, were:
a. communist revolutionaries b. military officers
c. abdicate
d. declare war on Japan
c. middle-class reformers
d: landless peasants
7. The main slogan of the Bolsheviks was “Peace, __________, Land.” (Fill in the blank.)
8. In November 1917, the Bolsheviks overthrew which government?
a. The Czar
b. The New Economic Policy
c. The Provisional Government
d. The Army
9. The new Bolshevik government in 1918 was almost immediately confronted with
a. a civil war
b. fixing the ruined Russian economy
c. hostility from Western European nations and The United States
d. all three of these
10. Lenin reintroduced limited capitalism in The New Economic Policy in 1922 in an effort to
a. please the United States
b. help get the broken Russian economy going again
c. stop Stalin from taking control of the government
d. rebuild the Russian Army
11. After Lenin died in 1924 there was a power struggle for control of the Soviet Union between Stalin and
a. Alexander Kerensky
b. Czar Nicholas II
c. Rasputin
d. Leon Trotsky
12. After taking control of the Soviet Union in 1928, Stalin launched a program of industrialization called
a. New Economic Policy
b. The Five-Year Plan
c. The Gulag
d. The NKVD
13. In the first few years of Stalin’s rule, the majority of farmland in the Soviet Union was
a. collectivized
b. destroyed
c. taken back from the Germans
d. given to the Red Army
14. The Holodomor was
a. the Soviet Secret Police
b. a ceremony marking Stalin’s rise to power
c. the deaths of 5-7 million Ukrainians in 1932-33 due to hunger
d. The Soviet Prison Camp system
15. From 1918-1950, an estimated _________ Russians died from starvation, war, imprisonment and violence
a. 5-6 million
b. 10-15 million
c. 27-30 million
65-75 million
16. Stalin’s industrialization policy was successful, but Russians generally suffered from a lack of
a. self-esteem
b. consumer goods
c. weapons
d. all three
Brest-Litovsk
Italy
Belgium
United States
Serbian
four
submarine
truce
Ottoman
future
dead
Russia
casualties
Total
Germany
Western Front
withdrew
land
shortages
nine
naval blockade
genocide
Central
Austria-Hungary
Triple
victorious
women
surrender
Britain
armistice
Somme
trenches
Europe
Serbia
Eastern Front
poison gas
Prussia
silent
Gallipoli
Brest-Litovsk
Italy
Belgium
United States
Serbian
four
submarine
truce
Ottoman
future
dead
Russia
casualties
Total
Germany
Western Front
withdrew
land
shortages
nine
naval blockade
genocide
Central
Austria-Hungary
Triple
victorious
women
surrender
Britain
armistice
Somme
trenches
Europe
Serbia
Eastern Front
poison gas
Prussia
silent
Gallipoli