9.1.3: WW1 Practise Questions

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9.1C: World War 1: Fighting the War

9. The Time of World Wars

most feared by soldiers 

bombing and dogfights

break through the enemy trenches

blokkade enemy supplies

bombing, reconnaissance, create panic

drive the enemy out of their trenches

Which option best suits the Battle of Verdun?

1. many casualties, no breakthrough
2. many casualties, but stalemate is broken
3. few casualties, no breakthrough
4. few casualties, and stalemate is broken.

Which option best suits the Battle at the Somme?

1. many casualties, no breakthrough
2. many casualties, but stalemate is broken
3. few casualties, no breakthrough
4. few casualties, and stalemate is broken.

The tank was a new weapon that tipped the scale of the war in favour of the Allies.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

CAUSES

DIRECT CAUSE

Why did the USA join WW1?

Zimmermann Telegram

US loans to the Allies

unrestricted submarine warfare

make the world safe for democracy

When Lenin became the leader of Russia,

1. Russia switched sides and joined the Central Powers
2. Russia kept fighting but lost the war after the battle of Brest-Litovsk
3. Russia surrendered to Germany
4. Germany surrendered to Russia to end the two-front war

signing an armistice means

1. both sides sign a peace treaty that officially ends the war.
2. both sides agree to pause the war for one month.
3. both sides agree to talk about ending the war soon.
4. both sides agree to stop the fighting, but officially the war has not ended yet

9.1.4: Picking up the pieces after the war

9. The Time of World Wars

1a. Wilson's "Fourteen Points" were his plan to punish Germany after the war.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

1b. Look at Wilson's "Fourteen Points". Which 2 points were likely to meet with disapproval from Britain?

1. 1 & 14
2. 2 & 5
3. 4 & 7
4. 5 & 13

= attitude towards Germany

= reasons for this attitude

= main aim

Make a schematic overview in your notebook of the information in this task

Treat Germany harshly. Make the bastards pay for what they did. No mercy.

Treat Germany harshly, but don’t cripple it

Don't treat Germany too harshly. 

we suffered the least. A crippled Germany might be vengeful and start another war in the future. A crippled Germany is less likely to become democratic.

we want to trade again with Germany, so Germany’s economy must be rebuilt quickly.  

We suffered the most . We are closest to Germany, so we fear the most of a possible future aggressive Germany.

keep our colonies safe by taking away Germany’s fleet and colonies.

Turn Germany into a peaceful, democratic country. That’s the best way to preserve peace in the future.

Cripple Germany, make Germany pay reparations, get Alsace Lorraine back

2a. Which Allied country sustained the most damage during the war?

1. France
2. Britain
3. Italy
4. USA

2b. Which country needed to fear a future powerful Germany the most?

1. France
2. Britain
3. Italy
4. USA

2c. Which country wanted the harshest treatment for Germany?

1. France
2. Britain
3. Italy
4. USA

4. Tom and Maggie are discussing this cartoon.
According to Tom, the artist agrees that Germany
should pay a lot of war reparations.
Maggie disagrees; she says that the artist
shows that Germany should pay an unreasonable
amount of money. Who is right?

 On the bag ‘Reparations $ 55,000,000,000’. Underneath ‘Germany’. American political cartoon about the German war reparations, c. 1921.

1. Tom
2. Maggie

7a. Which of the following countries was a member of the League of Nations when it started in 1920?

1. Great Britain
2. Russia
3. USA
4. Germany

Why did Germany, the USA and Russia (Soviet Union) not become members of the League of Nations?

Doesn't join because Congress voted against it

not allowed to join because they are still seen as "the enemy".

Not welcome as a member because they betrayed the Allies. 

7c. From what year till what year was Germany a member of the League of Nations?

1. Germany never joined
2. 1920 - 1945
3. 1933 - 1945
4. 1926 - 1933

9. Why did the rise of new nations in Eastern Europe cause tensions?

1. Because the people feared war between the new nations.
2. Because Austro-Hungary was intending to get its former territory back.
3. Because the new countries did not want to govern themselves democratically.
4. Because millions of Germans were now minorities in some new countries.