WORLD in CONFLICT - Review
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What factors contributed to the beginning of World War I?
What new technologies were used in World War I?
What factors caused the United States to enter World War I?
What were reasons why the United States did not get involved in World War I
sooner?
5. Which nations were members of the Triple Alliance?
6. Which nations were members of the Triple Entente?
7. What nationality/ethnicity was Gavrillo Princip who actually fired the first shot of
World War I?
8. Why was Germany willing to end World War I?
9. What was the name of the treaty that ended World War I?
10. Which nation got out of World War I before it was over because they were badly
beaten?
11. The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia helped lead to the formation of what?
12. What revolutionaries strongly believed in Karl Marx and socialism?
13. A Soviet is a representative of what groups of people?
14. Supporters of communism were referred to as what?
15. Which country began to greatly reduce and suppress religion after World War I?
16. Stalin supported what kind of farming as a part of communism in the U.S.S.R.?
17. How many people were killed during Stalin’s purge?
18. Which nation declared war on Japan along with the United States during World
War II?
19. What treaty did Hitler violate prior to World War II?
20. What new technological device was used to detect enemy planes?
21. What steps did Hitler take in trying to return Germany to power?
22. Who was the “Desert Fox” and which country did he fight for?
23. What is the scortched earth policy and who used it?
24. What significance did the Battle of Stalingrad have on World War II?
25. What is genocide?
26. Which country began an all-out invasion of China in 1937?
27. What is the German name given to a quick strike against another country?
28. Why and when did the U.S. enter World War II?
29. What was Auschwitz?
30. What is a Kamikaze?
31. Who were the Big 3 and What Country did each represent?
32. In which theater of War did the Battles of Midway and the Coral Sea occur?
33. What was the name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb?
34. What city was the first atomic bomb dropped on?
35. What city was the second atomic bomb dropped on?
36. What city was the target of the third atomic bomb if it had been used?
37. What was the purpose of the United Nations?
38. How is it presumed that Hitler died?
39. Who decided to drop the first atomic bomb and why was the decision made to use
it?
40. What helped the Soviets withstand the German attack?
41. What is the significance of the Battle of the Buldge?