World War One Unit Review
Part A: Terms: Give a 1  / or a 2 / or a 3  to each term
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
No Man’s Land
Total War
Black Hand
Trench foot
Propaganda
Serbia
Tanks
Rationing
Balkans
Zeppelin
Conscription
Militarism
Poison gas
D.O.R.A.
Alliance
Gallipoli
War Bonds
Imperialism
Lusitania
14 Points
Nationalism
Zimmerman Note
Big Four (Name + country)
Triple Alliance
Woodrow Wilson
Self-Determination
Triple Entente
Unrestricted Submarine
Reparations
Central Powers
Warfare
War Guilt
Allies
U-boat
League of Nations
Neutral
Blockade
Treaty of Versailles
Schlieffen Plan
Verdun
Armistice
Stalemate
Somme
Mobilize
Tannenberg
Part B: Essential Questions:
1. List the 4 MAIN causes of World War One. Define each one. Explain how each one helped start this war.
2. Whose death triggered WW1? What year did the war begin?
3. How did the assassination trigger the alliance system? Describe the chain of events that it set off. Include
who declares war on whom.
4. Describe the role that Belgium played in the war. What happened to it? Who came to their aid?
5. Describe trench warfare. Was it effective?
6. List three new weapons which helped make this war such a deadly one.
7. Describe each of the following battles: Gallipoli, Somme, Verdun, Tannenberg. What was the significance
of each?
8. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of Russia during World War 1.
9. Describe the 2 primary reasons that the U.S. enters the war. What side does the U.S. join?
10. Describe total war. How did the war affect the people? Include rationing in your answer. How did the
government try to limit dissent (protest)?
11. What is propaganda? How did governments use it during the war?
12. Who wins the war and who loses? When did it end?
13. Who are Big Four? List their name and corresponding country. What was the mood of the British, French,
and the Americans upon the end of this war or what did they want from this treaty?
14. Describe the League of Nations. Which major country does not join it?
15. Describe the provisions (parts) within the Treaty of Versailles that affect Germany.
16. How does the treaty affect the map of Europe? What countries disappear and what new countries are
formed?
17. Be able to label the following (new) countries of Europe: Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and
Hungary. (Use map assignment #16 / 21)
Part C Find Someone: On Back
His death begins the war
Limit food is called
Organization designed to
keep peace
What does stalemate
mean?
What country was neutral
prior to the war?
In the Schliefflen Plan –
which country was
Germany going to attack
first?
Why do the Allies attack
Gallipoli?
What year does the war
begin?
Name 2 things Germany
Name of law that
was forced to do under the restricted personal
Treaty of Versailles
freedoms in England
Name 1 new country
created after WW1
Who first declared war and
on which country?
Name one problem Russia
was facing during the war
Term that means an end to
fighting
Who were the 3 countries
in the Triple Alliance?
Name all 4 “Big 4”
countries