World History Chapter 16: World War I and Revolution Study Guide
Mr. Ron McCants, Teacher
Answers on page 3
Multiple Choice
____ 1. Why did Admiral Holtzendorff promise Emperor William II “not one American will land on the continent”?
a. He wanted to convince the emperor to resume unrestricted submarine warfare.
b. He believed the United States had no interest in the war.
c. He thought the Americans would honor their treaty with Germany.
d. He was misled by British spies working within the German navy.
____ 2. ____ were councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers.
a. Bolsheviks
c. Vanguards
b. Soviets
d. Dumas
____ 3. The Treaty of Versailles was
a. a peace settlement that consisted of five separate treaties with the defeated nations.
b. forced upon Austria, and gave some of its land to the new state of Poland.
c. the treaty signed with Germany that many Germans felt was a harsh peace.
d. a defensive alliance between Great Britain, France, and the United States.
____ 4. World War I was a ____, meaning that it involved a complete mobilization of resources and people.
a. modern conflict
c. total war
b. trench war
d. mobile conflict
____ 5. ____, the aggressive preparation for war, was growing along with nations’ armies.
a. Conscription
c. Warmongering
b. Militarism
d. Mobilization
____ 6. By attacking Austria in May 1915, Italy
a. betrayed Germany and Austria.
b. helped to knock Russia out of the war.
c. won the war.
d. became a world power.
____ 7. Under the leadership of ____, the Bolsheviks became a party dedicated to violent revolution.
a. Alexander Kerensky
c. V. I. Lenin
b. Grigori Rasputin
d. Alexandra Romanov
____ 8. In an attempt to end Russia’s involvement in the war, Lenin
a. seized the Winter Palace and overthrew the Russian government.
b. signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, which gave up much Russian territory.
c. united the soviets under the Bolshevik party.
d. called a general strike that shut down all factories in Petrograd on March 10.
____ 9. Why was Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo?
a. He wanted to seize Bosnia.
c. He was trying to disarm the country.
b. He was on a state visit.
d. None of the above
____ 10.
I felt tired out by the time I reached company headquarters, sweating under a packvalise like the men, and with all the usual furnishings hung at my belt—revolver, fieldglasses, map-case, compass, whiskey-flask, wire-cutters, periscope, and a lot more.
A ‘Christmas-tree,’ that was called. Those were the days in which officers had their
swords sharpened by the armourer before sailing to France. I had been advised to
leave mine back in the quartermaster-sergeants’ billet, and never saw it again, or
bothered about it.
Robert Graves, “Life in the Trenches” from Good-bye to All That
In the passage above, what is Graves suggesting about his sword?
a. that his armourer forgot to sharpen it
b. that he needed it at the front
c. that in World War I officers as a class were no longer distinguished by carrying a sword
d. None of the above
Completion
11. France, Great Britain, and Russia created the ____________________ in 1907.
12. The terrorist organization that wanted Bosnia to be free of Austria-Hungary was the ____________________.
13. Britain declared war against Germany in August, 1914, officially, because Germany violated the neutrality of
____________________.
14. Early in the war, Germany defeated the Russians at the Battle of ____________________ and the Battle of
Masurian Lakes.
15. In 10 months of battle at ____________________, France, 700,000 men lost their lives over a few miles of
land.
16. The March Revolution in Russia began in the city of ____________________.
17. Nicholas II was forced to step down after he unsuccessfully tried to dissolve the ____________________.
18. ____________________ was government control of banks and industry, the seizing of grain, and the
centralization of the state under Communist control.
19. Because the Allies would not negotiate with the imperial government of Germany, ____________________
was forced to step down and leave the country.
20. President Wilson’s basis for a peace settlement was known as the “____________________.”
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. war of attrition
f.
b. mobilization
g.
c. Central Powers
h.
d. David Lloyd George
i.
e. trench warfare
j.
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Grigori Rasputin
self-determination
League of Nations
Leon Trotsky
his assassination started World War I
assembling troops and supplies for war
kept the Western Front from moving very much
wearing the other side down with constant attacks
Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire
Siberian peasant who influenced Alexandra
head of the Petrograd soviet and, later, commissar of war
world organization created at the Paris Peace Conference
prime minister of Great Britain, who wanted to make the Germans pay for the war
the right of each people to have its own nation
World History Chapter 16: World War I and Revolution Study Guide
Mr. Ron McCants, Teacher
Answer Section
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. ANS: A
DIF: A
REF: Pages 507-508
2. ANS: B
DIF: A
REF: Page 516
STO:
3. ANS: C
DIF: C
REF: Page 524
4. ANS: C
DIF: E
REF: Page 526
STO:
5. ANS: B
DIF: A
REF: Pages 500-501
6. ANS: A
DIF: A
REF: Pages 504-505
7. ANS: C
DIF: A
REF: Page 517
STO:
8. ANS: B
DIF: C
REF: Page 518
STO:
9. ANS: B
DIF: A
REF: Page 501
STO:
10. ANS: C
DIF: C
REF: Pages 503-506
COMPLETION
11. ANS: Triple Entente
12. ANS: Black Hand
13. ANS: Belgium
14. ANS: Tannenberg
15. ANS: Verdun
16. ANS: Petrograd
17. ANS: Duma
18. ANS: War communism
19. ANS: William II
20. ANS: Fourteen Points
MATCHING
21. ANS: F
DIF: A
REF: Page 501
STO:
22. ANS: B
DIF: E
REF: Page 502
STO:
23. ANS: E
DIF: A
REF: Page 504
STO:
24. ANS: A
DIF: E
REF: Pages 505-506
STO: WH9.GHPS12, WH9.GHPS12.b
25. ANS: C
DIF: A
REF: Pages 506-507
STO: WH9.GHPS12, WH9.GHPS12.d
26. ANS: G
DIF: A
REF: Page 515
STO:
27. ANS: J
DIF: A
REF: Pages 518-519
STO: WH9.GHPS12, WH9.GHPS12.a
28. ANS: I
DIF: A
REF: Pages 523-524
STO: WH9.GHPS12, WH9.GHPS12.c
29. ANS: D
DIF: A
REF: Page 525
STO:
30. ANS: H
DIF: A
REF: Page 506
STO: WH9.GHPS12, WH9.GHPS12.c, WH9.GHPS12.d
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