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A Global Conflict (pages. 417-422)
1. Why did the Allies feel that capturing the Dardanelles was an important piece of their strategy?
a. Describe the events that took place during the Gallipoli campaign.
2. Explain the countries that began to take over Germany’s colonial possessions AND identify
which colonies were taken.
3. Identify the colonized people who fought on behalf of the European countries.
a. Why did they decide to fight for the Europeans?
b. How did Gandhi support this idea?
4. Explain how the Germans shifted the focus of the war starting in 1917. How did this go against a
promise previously made to the United States?
5. Describe the two steps taken by the Germans that finally forced America to get involved in the
war.
6. Explain why, outside of submarine warfare and the Zimmerman telegram, the United States was
siding with the Allied Powers.
7. What major world event killed 20,000,000 people, more than World War I itself?
8. What does it mean to go to total war? How did it benefit businesses and people in those
countries?
9. Explain how rationing and propaganda was used by governments to support the war effort.
10. How did the war affect women’s role in society? What did women do during the war?
11. Describe the process by with Russia withdrew from the war.
12. How did Russia’s withdrawal immediately help Germany?
13. After getting within 40 miles of Paris, describe how and why the tide turned against the
Germans.
14. What does it mean to sign an armistice? When was the armistice signed between Germany and
France?
15. Explain how WWI was a new kind of war.
16. Looking at the graph at the top of page 422
a. Identify the Allied Power nation that lost the most troops
b. Identify the Central Powers nation that lost the most troops
c. Figure out the death rate of troops for the Allied Powers and the Central Powers (hint:
take the combined number of troop deaths and divide it by the number of mobilized
troops).
17. Explain the wars effect on the economies of the European nations involved.
Closing Activity:
Imagine you are the leader of the United States and you are asked to draw up a peace plan that tries to
prevent future wars like the one just experienced in Europe. In the peace plan you must a) punish the
losing nations b) reward the winners c) establish guidelines to prevent future wars of this type. If you are
too harsh, you risk creating resentment and if you are too light, you might lessen the risk of war. Think
carefully and be specific.