Ch 29 Test Review

Learning Targets:

  • I can identify/analyze the long term (MAIN) and short-term (events) causes of the war.
  • I can explain why the Balkan peninsula was the “powder keg” of Europe.
  • I can list the countries that made up the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente.
  • I can describe the locations of major military events of the war.
  • I can analyze the impact of new technology used during WWI.
  • I can explain how governments used propaganda to promote support of the war.
  • I can analyze primary source materials for characteristics of propaganda.
  • I can describe the experiences of a soldier in the trenches.
  • I can manipulate data to create a graphic representation of WWI events.
  • I can explain events that caused USA to join the war.
  • I can analyze effects of Treaty of Versailles.
  • I can determine the legacy of WWI.

1.What were the MAIN causes of World War I?

2.What countries made up the Triple Entente?

3.What countries made up the Triple Alliance?

4.How did the alliances change once the war started?

a.Triple Entente: ______

b.Triple Alliance: ______

5.What was the spark that “blew up the Balkan powder keg”?

6.What was Germany’s Schlieffen Plan? Who joined the Allies when Germany “launched” the plan? Did the plan work?

7.Where was the Western Front?

8.Describe the type of warfare fought there.

9.Where was the Eastern Front located?

10.What happened at the Battle of Gallipoli? Who were the major combatants?

11.What territory did Russia give up to Germany in the Brest-Litovsk Treaty? Why?

12.What made the Great War a World War if all of the major battles were fought in Europe?

13.What was the initial response of the USA to the outbreak of WWI? Where did our sentiments lie?

14.What happened to the Lusitania? Were the Germans “justified’?

15.What finally brought the USA into the war? Why?

16.How did the Industrial Revolution change the way wars were fought?

17.What broke out in 1918 that helped bring the war to a close? How did it help?

18.When did WWI end?

19.Which countries were absent from the Paris Peace Conference (PPC)? Why?

20.What was Woodrow Wilson’s proposal for peace called? What did he hope to accomplish?

21. What were the goals of the European powers at the PPC?

22.Which plan was adopted as the Treaty of Versailles? What part of Wilson’s plan was included?

23.How was Germany punished?

24.What three empires collapsed as a result of the war?

25.What new countries emerged in Europe as a result of the Treaty of Versailles?

26.What was the US response to the Treaty of Versailles? Why?

27.What are League “mandates”?

28.What potential problems were created by the Treaty of Versailles?

WHG-MEYERS 2016