Honors World History
Reading Objectives: World War 1
Chapter 14
As you read the chapter, make sure you can answer, identify, or explain the following:
14.1
Note the quotes by Bismarck and Passy. Explain how those quotes represent Europe before WWI.
What was the initial purpose of the two major alliances that formed before the war?
List the members of each alliance:
The Triple Alliance:
The Triple Entente
How was Germany at the center of European national competition (top of pate 456)?
How did tension in Morocco influence European alliances?
Note the arms race between Germany and Britain
What is militarism?
Why were the French still bitter about the Franco-Prussian War of 1870?
What is “Pan-Slavism,” and how did it involve Russia?
On the top of page 457, you read about the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913. What were those wars about? How did those wars contribute to the tension building to WWI?
What were Serbs to intent on assassinating the Archduke?
How did the Archduke’s assassination lead to a larger European war?
Note why each nation joined the war:
Russia:
France:
Belgium:
Britain:
What was the Schlieffen Plan? What was its goal, and why?
14.2
Why did the Schlieffen Plan fail?
What happened at the Battle of the Marne?
What is a stalemate?
Note the text under the map on page 461. What happened at the battles of the Verdun and the Somme?
Note all of the new innovations in warfare on page 462 and 463:
What happened to the Russians at the Battle of Tannenberg?
Why did Bulgaria and Romania join the war, and which side were they on?
Why did Italy switch sides?
Which side did the Ottoman Empire join?
What happened at Gallipoli?
Who was T. E. Lawrence, and what did he do?
What role did the colonies of Africa and Asia play in the war?
14.3
What is “total war”? What actions did the governments of the warring states take?
Why was the sinking of the Lusitania significant?
What role did women play in the war effort?
Briefly note the details of the Russian Revolution, especially the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Why did the US enter the war?
What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
What is “self-determination”?
How did the war come to an end?
14.4
Note the graphic on page 473. Interesting, isn’t it?
Note who wasn’t present at the Paris Peace Talks…
What did David Lloyd George want for Great Britain after the war?
What did Georges Clemenceau want for France?
What did Vittorio Orlando want for Italy?
What happened to Wilson’s goal of self-determination?
What was the goal of the League of Nations?
Note the specific ways that the Treaty of Versailles treated Germany.
What new states emerged in Eastern Europe?
What are “mandates”?
Why was the League of Nations so weak?