Crash Course #36 WW I - World History

What was "no mans land"?

• a stateless nation in the Middle East

• area between the trenches of the combatants

• land with no borders in Poland during WW I

What was the Schillefen Plan?

• France's war plan for WW I

• Russia's attempt to mobilize its military

• Germany's war plan for WW I

T or F: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 killed 3 times more people than the war itself

• True

• False

Which of the following was the first "big" nation to mobilize its forces for war?

• United States

• Germany

• Great Britain

• Russia

Which of the following countries saw over 13% of its male population ages 15-49 die in WW I?

• Germany

• France

• Russia

Which of the following countries lost over 60,000 soldiers in the first day of the Battle of the Somme?

• United States

• Great Britain

• Germany

• Ottoman Empire

The Treaty of Versailles fixed the blame of the war on which country?

• Russia

• Germany

• Austria-Hungary

T or F: World War I led to the rise of Lenin and the Mensheviks in Russia.

• True

• False