WWI Test Study Guide-30 points

This study guide MUST be complete by the day of your test, which is ______. Failure to complete the study guide ON TIME will result in a zero for it.

The Test will be: Multiple Choice, Matching, Short Answer, and Short Essay. It will be worth 100 pts

Notes Part I. Causes of WWI

4 M.A.I.N Causes of WWI and how they caused WWI

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What was the “Powder Keg” of Europe?

Alliances before the war:

Triple Alliance

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2.

3.

Triple Entente

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2.

3.

Who left the Triple Alliance and joined the Allied Powers during the war?

Who wrote the “blank check” to Austria-Hungary? What is the “blank check”?

Slavic Countries/Pan-Slavism-Which countries are these?

Alliances DURING the War:

Allied Powers:

Central Powers:

People to Know:

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Gavrilo Princip

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Francis Joseph

Czar Nicolas II

Notes Part II. Combat

Chemical Warfare

German U-Boats

“Dogfights”

Artillery

Machine Guns

Trench Warfare

  • Trench foot
  • Barbed wire
  • “No Man’s Land”
  • stalemate

People to Know:

The Red Baron

Notes Part III. Allied Victory Against Germany

Schlieffen Plan

Two-Front War

Russian Revolution

Communism

Lusitania

Zimmerman Note/Telegram

People to Know:

General Schlieffen

Vladimir Lenin

Arthur Zimmerman

Notes Part IV. Treaty of Versailles

Terms to Know:

Treaty of Versailles

The “Big Three”

League of Nations

B.R.A.T (Germany’s punishment in the treaty) Should know and be able to explain components

B (Blame)

R (Reparations)

A (Army)

T (Territory)

People to Know:

“The Big Three” and their stance on Germany

  1. Woodrow Wilson
  1. David Lloyd George
  1. Georges Clemenceau

Questions to Consider:

  • How did a war between two countries in the Balkans, spiral into a war that involved the whole world?
  • What were France and Germany’s motivations for entering the war (Alliance and Nationalism related)
  • What was Russia’s reason for entering the war?
  • Why did Russia exit the war early?
  • What were the 3 main reasons why the US entered the war?
  • Why did Germany’s Schlieffen plan fail?
  • What was the significance of the Christmas Truce of 1914 (As evidenced in the video we watched?)
  • As a result of exiting the war early, what happens to Russia at the Treaty of Versailles?
  • What happens to the Austrio-Hungarian Empire after WWI?
  • Pick two of the countries who felt that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair toward them and explain why