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AP European History
Mrs. Sydeski
Review Worksheet: World War I
Directions: Using your notes answer the following questions. (30 pts.)
1. What underlying cause of World War I means an arms race or the building of
large standing armies and navies?
2. List several new weapons used in World War I.
3. What underlying cause means defensive agreements made by countries?
4. What is the goal of alliances?
5. What alliance did Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy belong to?
6. Once the war started what name did the Triple Alliance side take?
7. What country that was a member of the Triple Alliance did not come into World
War I on the side of the Central Powers?
8. What alliance did Great Britain, France, and Russia belong to?
9. What does the word entente mean?
10. What name did this alliance system take during the war?
11. What country entered on the side of the Allies in 1914?
12. What country entered on the side of the Allies in 1917?
13. What underlying cause means the policy of establishing economic, political,
and military dominance over weaker nations?
14. The second wave of imperialism was generated by what revolution?
15. What is the most common motive for imperialism?
16. What country was a latecomer on the imperialistic scene?
17. What Kaiser had dropped Bismarck?
18. What word describes Wilhelm II?
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19. What place did Wilhelm II want for Germany?
20. What two areas of the world were left to colonize in the second wave of
imperialism?
21. What crisis happened in 1898?
22. What two countries were involved in this crisis?
23. What colony did Great Britain control in southern of Africa?
24. What type of belt did Great Britain desire to establish?
25. This is also called the Cape to _____________ Dream.
26. What type of belt did France want to establish?
27. Following what war did France develop a spirit of revenge against Germany?
28. So, actually, the Fashoda Crisis pushed what two countries into an alliance
against Germany?
29. What underlying cause of World War I means an intense loyalty to one’s
country or a desire to have one’s own country?
30. What empire was called “the Sick Man of Europe?”
31. What area of Europe was called the powder keg?
32. What type of state was Austria-Hungary?
33. What was a small Slavic state in the Balkans?
34. What term means all Slavs together in one nation?
35. What was the name of the secret Serbian terrorist organization?
36. What was the goal of this organization?
37. What two small Slavic states were annexed by Austria-Hungary?
38. What is one of the dominant ethnic groups in Russia?
39. Who did they see as their “little Slavic brothers?”
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40. What type of port does Russia want?
41. Who was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary?
42. What was his wife’s name?
43. Where were they on a goodwill trip to?
44. When were they killed?
45. Who killed them?
46. This assassin was a member of what group?
47. What country decided to crush Serbia?
48. What country issued a ‘blank check’ to Austria-Hungary?
49. What country issued an ultimatum to Serbia?
50. What country backed Serbia?
51. What country backed Russia as part of the Triple Entente?
52. What country rejected Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum?
53. What country began mobilizing its troops?
54. What country demanded an end to Russia’s mobilization?
55. What country declared war on France?
56. What country invaded Belgium?
57. What plan was this country following?
58. What did Germany violate of Belgium?
59. What country was pledge to uphold Belgium’s neutrality?
60. What is Germany’s worst fear militarily?
61. What country’s military was supposed to be slow to mobilize?
62. According to the Schlieffen Plan, what country was Germany to attack first?
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63. In order to get to France Germany was to march through what neutral
country?
64. What city did the Germans want to capture quickly?
65. Once France was controlled, the Germans would then move troops to trains
in order to attack what country?
66. When the Schlieffen Plan was implemented, German troops successfully
sweep through what neutral country?
67. What country violated the Schlieffen Plan?
68. What country was mobilizing its troops faster than expected?
69. German generals shifted some Germans troops to the east. Unfortunately,
for the Germans, this move weakened German troops on what front?
70. Name the battle in which the French stop the Germans?
71. Each side then tried to do what to the other side?
72. For how many miles did the Western Front extend?
73. From where to where did the Western Front extend?
74. What did each side build?
75. How many men did the British lose in a single day in the battle of Somme?
76. How long did this battle last?
77. How many men total were lost?
78. Did either side gain significant territory?
79. What famous book did Erich Maria Remarque write in which he described the
demented trench warfare of World War I?
80. What type of warfare did the Germans launch?
81. What blockade were the Germans responding to?
82. What country set up this blockade?
83. What does U-Boat stand for?
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84. By definition Unrestricted Submarine Warfare calls for what ships to be sunk?
85. What type of freedom did Wilson advocate?
86. What British passenger liner was sunk in 1915?
87. What city did this ship leave?
88. What country ran ads in this city’s newspapers warning passengers that they
would be entering a war zone?
89. Off the coast of what country was this ship sunk?
90. How many torpedoes sunk this ship?
91. How fast did it sink?
92. What were the two possible explosions?
93. How many Americans died? How many total?
101. Who was reelected in 1916?
102. What slogan concerning the war did he use?
103. What German official sent a telegram to the German ambassador in
Mexico?
104. In what month and year did this occur?
105. With what country was Mexico to ally?
106. What did Germany feel that she had to resume?
107. Why? What British technique was working well?
108. What country intercepted this telegram?
109. In what month and year did this story break in the US press?
110. Did Mexico accept Germany’s offer and go to war against the US?
111. Did this incident further inflame US public opinion against Germany?
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112. How many revolutions occurred in Russian in 1917?
113. In what months did they occur?
114. Militarily, World War I was what for Russia?
115. What was Russia’s economic condition at the outbreak of World War I?
116. On the other hand, Germany was highly what?
117. This time who did the people of Russia feel was responsible for their plight
in World War I?
118. Who was the only son of Nicholas and Alexandra?
119. What problem did he have?
120. Who could heal Alexis?
121. What broke out in Russia from 1917 to 1920?
122. What were the two sides in this action?
123. What did Germany resume in March of 1917?
124. How many American merchant ships were sunk?
125. What is now over for the US?
126. Upon what powers did the US declare war?
127. When did Wilson deliver his War Message?
128. Wilson wanted to make the world safe for what?
129. What does AEF stand for?
130. Who was the commander of the AEF?
131. What did the US tip in World War I?
132. What country did Allied troops not enter?
133. Who abdicated his throne?
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134. On what hour, month, day, and year did the armistice take effect?
135. What national holiday is celebrated on this day?
136. Who created the stabbed in the back theory?
137. What was the name of the democratic government created in Germany at
the end of World War I?
138. What government was required to sign the Treaty of Versailles?
139. The Treaty of Versailles opens the door for what man to rise to power in
Germany?
140. Who issued the Fourteen Points?
141. The Fourteen Points were peace proposals from what country?
142. If the Fourteen Points had been really implemented in the Treaty of
Versailles what would have happened to the four underlying causes of World
War I?
143. Point 1 “Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, . .” would have
eliminated what underlying cause of World War I?
144. Point 3 “The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the
establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting
to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance” would have
eliminated what cause?
145. Point 4 “Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will
be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety” would have
eliminated what cause?
146. Point 5 “A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all
colonial claims, . .” would have eliminated what cause?
147. Point 10 “The peoples of Austria-Hungary . . . should be accorded the freest
opportunity to autonomous development” would have eliminated what cause?
148. What did Point 14 call for--i.e. “a general association of nations?”
149. Who represented the US at the Paris Peace Conference?
150. Who represented Great Britain at the Paris Peace Conference?
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151. Who represented France at the Paris Peace Conference?
152. David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau both practiced what political
principle?
153. What does the term mean?
154. Realpolitik is an updated version of an Italian diplomat and writer. What
was his name?
156. What book did he write?
157. Woodrow Wilson is going to sacrifice some of his Fourteen Points in order
to win what point?
158. In what palace was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
159. Was Germany allowed to attend the conference?
160. In what region of Germany was the Demilitarized Zone located?
161. What country wanted this Demilitarized Zone as a “buffer zone?”
162. Where were the coal mines located that Germany had to give up to France?
163. What territory was to be returned to France by Germany?
164. During what war did France give up these two provinces to Germany?
165. Was Austria to be a separate nation under the Treaty of Versailles?
166. What nationality are Austrians?
167. In what country was Hitler born?
168. Were the Austrians given the right to self determination?
169. What country was recreated after more than 100 years of not existing?
170. What is the name of the piece of land created for Poland so that she could
have access to the sea?
171. What is the nationality of the people who live in this piece of land?
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172. What country had to renounce all of its right and titles over her overseas
possessions?
173. What two countries were given these colonies as mandates under the
League of Nations?
174. Germany’s army was not allowed to exceed how many men?
175. What is the term given to the many unemployed ex-soldiers who came
home to Germany?
176. What paramilitary group did Hitler recruit out of these ex-soldiers?
177. What is the name given to Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles?
178. What country had to assume the guilt for starting World War I?
179. What is the name given to Article 232 of the Treaty of Versailles?
180. What does the word reparation mean?
181. The final bill for the reparations was to be determined later by what
commission?
182. What was the name of the German democratic government that was forced
to sign the Treaty of Versailles?
183. Was the Treaty of Versailles harsh or fair?
184. How much was the final bill presented to Germany?
185. What body must approve a treaty in the US government?
186. Did this body approve the Treaty of Versailles?
187. What did Article 10 of the Treaty of Versailles call for the creation of?
188. What US Senator led the opposition to the ratification of the Treaty of
Versailles?
189. Many Americans and Senators feared Article 10 of the Treaty of Versailles.
Congress feared that it would lose its power to do what?
190. Wilson attempted a 9,000 mile speaking tour. He wanted to get American
voters to vote for senatorial candidates who would vote to ratify the Treaty of
Versailles. What happened to Wilson in Sept. 1919 in Pueblo, Colorado?