Answers to World War I Study Guide
(these are misnumbered starting after #17. There is no #18 on the study guide)
1. The assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian
Nationalist, Gavrilo Princip.
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Serbia, 1914
Triple Alliance and Triple Entente
Italy, Germany Austria-Hungary (IGA)
Great Britain, Russia, France (Good Boys Run Fast)
Balkans
Franz Ferdinand and Sophie
Gavrilo Princip; the Black Hand
Germany gave unlimited support to Austria, instead of trying to discourage
war.
10.They were backing Serbia because of ethnic similarities. (Slavic)
11.They had promised to protect Belgium’s neutrality, so they declared war
when Germany invaded Belgium.
12.Germany
13.To avoid a two-front war
14.Speed
15. Germany, A-H, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
16.Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, United States
17.It ruined Germany’s Schlieffen Plan and meant that Germany would have to
fight a 2 front war; the war developed into a stalemate.
18.Ypres
19.Somme
20.Airplanes
21.U-boats
22.Recruitment of soldiers, building public support for the war, financing the
war through bonds, conservation of resources, etc…
23.German
24.Less industrialized
25.Vladimir Lenin
26. A. The Zimmermann Telegram
B. Germany’s policy of unrestricted submarine warfare
C. Close economic and cultural ties with the Allies
27.Woodrow Wilson
28.A telegram from Germany to Mexico suggesting that Mexico attack the
United States. It was intercepted by the British and given to the US.
29.The military draft
30.11th
31.An agreement to end fighting
32.1917