World History Benchmark Exam Study Guide #3
10.5.1
1. What is Nationalism?
2. Which countries made up the Triple Entente in 1907?
3. Why were the Balkans known as the “powder keg” of Europe in the early 1900’s?
4. The assassination of which leader led to the outbreak of WWI?
5. What did Russia, a largely Slavic nation, do after Austria-Hungary declared war on the Slavic nation of
Serbia?
6. What reasons were important for the outbreak of WWI?
7. Which country gave Austria-Hungary a “blank check” and allowed them to give Serbia an ultimatum?
8. Which country did Germany violate the neutrality of that led Great Britain into the war?
9. What is one reason for the tension between France and Germany before World War 1?
10. What is Total War?
10.5.2
1. Why did Germany have a geographic disadvantage at the start of World War I?
2. What was the Germany’s Schlieffen Plan?
3. What did German forces realize after the victory in the Battle of the Marnes in 1914?
4. What characterizes the Trench warfare?
5. What was Russia’s main strength during WW1?
6. Which battle was the major turning point on the Eastern Front during WW1?
7. What and where did gas attacks, machine guns, barbed wire and rat infestations affect? How does
this affect the war?
8. Why did most of the combat on the Western Front in WWI take place in a relatively small area?
9. What was the geographic factor that contributed most significantly to the “great slaughter” in WWI?
10. What factor played the most important role in Germany’s strategy for dealing with Great Britain in
World War I?
11. What was the immediate goal of Lenin and the Bolsheviks?
12. What happened when the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed?
13. Which German action was most important in bringing the United States into World War I?
14. Where was the fighting focus on by the time US entered WWI?
15. Why was the Zimmerman telegram important to the outcome of World War I?
16. What effect did the Russian Revolution have on World War I?
17. What was the effect of the United States entry into World War I in April 1917?
18. What did the United States do at the beginning of World War I?
19. What happened when Russia dropped out of World War I?
10.4.5
1. What is one reason why millions of European and Russian civilians died during World War I?
2. What were the civilian casualties in World War I?
3. Which country recruited colonial troops from India in World War I?
4. Why did some colonies demand for independence after World War I?
5. What were the impacts of World War I on most European nations?
6. What happened to the civilians in Great Britain and France in order to insure soldiers’ sufficient
supplies during WWI?
7. What killed more people than the war?
10.5.5
1. What is propaganda and how was it used in the war?
2. How widespread were atrocities in the war?
3. Why were the Armenians a minority?
4. Who ruled the Ottoman Empire?
5. How did Armenians feel about the war during the beginning?
6. What did other countries do after finding out about Turkey’s actions against the Armenians?
7. Why were German atrocities in Belgium overstated in neutral countries?
8. What was hypocritical about the complaints of the allies in regard to the use of poison gas by the
Germans?
9. What was the result of the Allies 5 year blockade during the war?
10. Why was poison gas so atrocious in WW1?
10.6.1
1. What were Woodrow Wilson’s fourteen pointes?
2. What were the ideas of National Self-Determination in Woodrow Wilson’s fourteen pointes?
3. Who were the Big Four who negotiated the Treaty of Versailles?
4. What did the Treaty of Versailles require Germany to do?
5. What was the main purpose of the League of Nations?
6. What was the main reason that Americans rejected the League of Nations?
7. Why did the Treaty of Versailles require Germany to reduce their army and navy?
8. What is the name for Woodrow Wilson’s main ideas for just and everlasting peace?
9. What are reparations?
10.6.2
1. Why was the Turkish Empire broken up?
2. Who lost the greatest percentage of land in the creation of new nations?
3. Which nations were formed from the former lands of the Ottoman Empire?
4. What new countries were formed from former territory of Russia?
5. After new national boundaries were drawn, which of the Central Powers lost access to the sea?
6. What country did Serbia become part of after WW1?
7. Which countries administered mandates in the Middle East?