WWI Study Guide
WHII SOL 10
1. What 3 countries made up the Triple Entente? 2. What were these European powers
called?
3. What 3 countries made up the Triple Alliance? 4. What were these European powers
called?
5. What year did WWI begin? What year did it end?
6. When did the U.S. Enter? When did Russia drop out?
7. What were the 3 isms that were causes of the war?
8. What region in southern Europe was known as the “powder keg” of Europe?
9. What assassination triggered the war?
10. Who carried out this assassination? What nation was he from?
11. What advantage did the Triple Entente have in this war?
12. What was Germany's strategy in this war?
13. T or F The European colonies also fought in WWI.
14. What were the 2 big reasons why the U.S. got involved?
15. What nation sank the Lusitania?
16. What country was the Zimmerman Telegram heading to?
17. What did it tell that country to do?
18. Who was the German Kaiser during WWI?
19. Who was the German leader he replaced?
20. How did the Kaiser reverse Germany's policy towards Britain?
21. Who was the U.S. President that got America involved?
22. What country switched from the Central Powers to the Allied Powers during the war?
23. What did Germany sign to officially end the war?
24. What did the European colonies demand after the war?
25. What 3 nations saw their empires come to an end?
26. What were the 3 enormous costs of the war?
27. What was the name of the peace conference called after the war?
28. Which 4 nations attended?
29. Which nation was ignored? What did this nation want?
30. What nation was punished at this peace conference?
31. What were 3 ways this nation was punished?
32. Who proposed the creation of a League of Nations as part of his 14 Points?
33. What was this League of Nations missing?
34. Which former empire was divided into mandates?
35. What 2 nations got these mandates? Which mandates did each one get?
36. What were 2 new countries that were created after WWI?
37. What happened in Russia during 1917?
38. What war in 1905 humiliated the Russian government?
39. Who was the ruler of Russia during WWI?
40. How did Russia perform in WWI?
41. How did this performance make the Tsar look?
42. Why was the working class in Russia upset at the Tsar?
43. Why were the peasant farmers upset at the Tsar?
44. Who led the Revolution in Russia? What was his party called?
45. Whose ideas were this party's philosophy based on?
46. What type of government did this party overthrow?
47. What other event did this group have to win before taking complete power of Russia?
48. What country did Russia surrender to during WWI? When did this happen?
49. What did Russia change its name to?
50. What policy did the new Russian administration create?
51. What did this policy allow?
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52. What was the purpose of the League of Nations?
53. Why did the League of Nations failed?
54. What did the Mandate system do?
55. When was this system created?
56. What 2 mandates did the French receive?
57. What 2 mandates did the British receive?
58. What did Germany owe to the winners of WWI that made their economy even
worse?
59. What nation dominated the global economy during the 1920s?
60. What did people use in excess to buy goods they couldn't afford during the 1920s?
61. What happened in 1929 that triggered the worldwide depression?
62. What action did industrialized countries take up in response to this crisis(think of
taxes on traded goods)?
63-66 Identify if each of the following issues got better or worse in the 1930s:
63. prices on world trade
64. banking system
65. unemployment
66. use of credit