World War I ZAP! Questions
1. Name the members of the Triple Alliance
2. Name the members of the Triple Entente
3. Why did Italy eventually fight with the Allied Powers instead of the Central Powers?
4. What was the immediate cause of World War I?
5. What new weapon caused the soldiers to resort to trench warfare?
6. Why did the military begin using poison gas during World War I?
7. Why did chlorine and phosgene gas cause the most deaths?
8. Why was mustard gas the most dreaded poison gas?
9. Which country utilized U-boats and what were they?
10. Wilson’s main goal was to create this after World War I so all countries could settle their disagreements
peacefully.
11. This is the word used to describe payment for war damages and is what Germany had to pay to other
countries after the war
12. The area between enemy trenches was called this
13. List three problems that soldiers in the trenches faced
14. What effect did World War I have on the United States in 1914?
15. This was the event that caused Wilson to realize the United States was being directly threatened and ask Congress
for a declaration of war
16. This was the event that caused the American public to want to go to war against Germany
17. Why did Germany ask Mexico to attack the United States in the Zimmerman Telegram?
18. Another name for cease fire (took effect on the 11th hour, 11th day, of the 11th month of 1918)
19. The peace Treaty that officially ended War World I
20. Name the Big Four and which country they represented.
21. List any two long term problems with the Treaty of Versailles
22. List any three terms of The Treaty of Versailles
23. Name all the powers that fought for the Allied Powers at some point
24. The Western Front can be found on the boarders of which two countries?
25. What happened as a result of the Russian Revolution that took place?
World War I ZAP! Answers
1. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
2. Great Britain, France, Italy
3. Austria-Hungary had declared war on Serbia first, making them the aggressor. Italy only had to go to war if
Austria-Hungary was attacked
4. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
5. Machine guns
6. Because of the stalemate in the trenches: needed something to cause panic and temporary blindness so
they could run across no-man’s land without being shot at
7. When the soldiers breathed it in it would cause them to drown from the liquid from their own lungs
8. There was no protection against it: it would react with any moist part of the body, and it would remain in
the air for days after it was released
9. Germany, submarines
10. League of Nations
11. Reparations
12. No Man’s Land
13. Lice, Rats, Trench Foot, Frogs, Being exposed to the elements
14. Crippled its economy
15. Zimmerman Note/Telegram
16. Sinking of the Lusitania
17. They knew it was only a matter of time before US joined the war, and wanted U.S. to be distracted so they
couldn’t send as many troops to Europe
18. Armistice
19. Treaty of Versailles
20. David Lloyd George: Great Britain, Georges Clemenceau: France, Woodrow Wilson: U.S.A, Vittorio Orlando,
Italy
21. Left Germany in economic depression because of reparations, left Germany wanting revenge because of
War Guilt Clause, created new countries with people of different ethnic backgrounds
22. Germany had to reduce army to 100,000, could not have any ships, planes, or tanks, had to pay war
reparations, had to take full blame for the war (War Guilt Clause), German land given to other countries,
Austria-Hungary broken up, Ottoman Empire broken up, League of Nations created
23. Great Britain, France, Serbia, Russia, Italy, U.S.A.
24. France and Germany
25. Russia signed their own peace treaty with the Central Powers, closing the Eastern Front and allowing all
those German soldiers to be sent to the Western Front.