WWI Test

Which of the following took place from 1914 to 1918?

• The Great Depression

• World War II

• World War I

• The Spanish-American War

In the early 1900’s before World War I, Europe had two main alliances:

• the Triple Alliance and the Central Powers

• the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance

• the Allied powers and the Triple Entente

• the Central Powers and the Triple Entente

_______________, the aggressive preparation for war, was growing along with nations’ armies.

• Conscription

• Militarism

• Warmongering

• Mobilization

Which one of these choices shows the groups fighting in WWI with the correct countries listed?

• Triple Entente: Italy, Austria Hungary, Ottoman Empire; Triple Alliance: Russia, Great Britain, Germany

• Triple Entente: Russia, Great Britain, Germany; Triple Alliance: Austria-Hungary, Italy, Ottoman Empire

• Triple Entente: Italy, Russia, Great Britain; Triple Alliance: Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Germany

• Triple Entente: Austria Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire; Triple Alliance: Italy, Russia, Great Britain

What event triggered the beginning of World War I?

• The Serbians attacked Austria-Hungary.

• The Germans advanced into Russia.

• The Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated.

• Czar Nicholas II was overthrown by Rasputin

Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire became known as

• the Allied Powers

• the League of Nations

• the Central Powers

• the Eastern Powers.

What caused the United States to join the Allies in fighting World War I? (choose all that apply)

• the sinking of the Lusitania

• the German boycott of American goods

• the United States’ fear of the Austro-Hungarian powers

• the Germans’ use of unrestricted submarine warfare

Which of the following nations would have entered the United States if Zimmerman’s plot would have succeeded?

• Serbia

• Spain

• Switzerland

• Mexico

Most of the fighting in World War I occurred

• in the Mediterranean Sea

• in trenches

• in Great Britain

• because of airplanes

Russia left World War I because

• they no longer supported Serbia’s attempt to take over Bosnia.

• they were suffering too many casualties and feared they would lose the war.

• a revolution began in their country

• the Czar became ill and withdrew from the war