Name: _______________________________________________
Date: __________
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some letters may not
be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
K.
L.
M.
N.
O.
P.
Q.
R.
soviet
Duma
pogrom
Rasputin
Karl Marx
Lenin
Nicholas II
Bolsheviks
Mensheviks
Sergey Witte
World War I
Alexander III
Bloody Sunday
Russo-Japanese War
Trans-Siberian Railway
provisional government
March Revolution (1917)
New Economic Policy (NEP)
____ 1. This was Russia's first parliament.
____ 2. He was the last Romanov czar of Russia.
____ 3. He was the major leader of the Bolsheviks.
____ 4. This was overthrown by the Bolshevik Revolution.
____ 5. This group masterminded the revolution in November 1917.
____ 6. This type of organized violence against Jews was encouraged by Alexander III.
____ 7. This man's influence on Czarina Alexandra led a group of Russian nobles to murder him.
Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 8. Which of the following is a weapon of totalitarianism?
A. uncensored mass media
B. tolerant treatment of all ethnic groups
C. police terror
D. free elections
____ 9. What did the pogroms do that occurred in the late 19th-century Russia do?
A. kill all the kulaks
B. enlist the aid of foreigners
C. violently persecute Jews
D. establish a Communist council
____ 10. Who were the Bolsheviks?
A. followers of Rasputin
B. members of the Duma, Russia's parliament
C. soldiers in the White Army
D. radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries
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Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 11. In or near which city did the westernmost civil war battle take place?
A. Murmansk
B. Brest-Litovsk
C. Archangel
D. Petrograd
____ 12. According to this map, how many Bolshevik uprisings took place between 1905 and 1917?
A. 15
B. 20
C. 5
D. 10
____ 13. Which territories were lost under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
A. all of the above
B. Romania, Turkey, China, Mongolia
C. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland
D. Brest-Litovsk, Ukraine, Russia
____ 14. Approximately how many miles apart are Petrograd and Moscow?
A. 350
B. 500
C. 200
D. 650
____ 15. Which bodies of water were used by the White Army and their allies?
A. Black Sea and the Aral Sea
B. Barents Sea and the Caspian Sea
C. all of the above
D. Barents Sea and the Black Sea
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Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 16. How did the reigns of Alexander III and Nicholas II help pave the way for revolution?
A. They saw to it that the poor were imprisoned for debts.
B. They instituted pogroms to weed out revolutionary thinkers.
C. They both upheld an autocratic government without reform.
D. They supported rapid industrialization at the expense of the treasury.
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some letters may not
be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
Where noted, there is more than one answer.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
Italy
Serbia
Russia
France
Greece
Germany
Great Britain
Austria-Hungary
____ 17. Which nation was unified by Otto von Bismarck and later ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm II?
____ 18. Which nation's heir to the throne was assassinated in 1914 by a Serbian nationalist?
A= True
B= False
__________ 19.
Under the Schlieffen Plan, Germany was to focus first on defeating Great Britain.
__________ 20.
The territory between the trenches was known as "no man's land."
__________ 21.
After Russia began mobilizing troops on its western border, Serbia declared war on
Russia. Two days later, it also declared war on France.
Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 22. World War I was a "total war" in the sense that
A. it brought great suffering to civilians.
B. the nations involved devoted all their resources to it.
C. new technologies played a large part in the war.
D. nations from all over the world were involved.
____ 23. The system of rationing was designed to limit
A. civilian antiwar activities.
B. production of luxury items.
C. the number of men needed in the civilian work force.
D. purchases of consumer goods.
____ 24. The purpose of propaganda during World War I was to
A. censor the press.
B. inform the public.
C. influence public opinion.
D. expose antiwar activity.
____ 25. The Zimmermann note, which pushed the United States to enter the war, exposed the German plan
to
A. help Mexico regain U.S. territory.
B. plant German spies in the United States.
C. sink passenger ships without warning.
D. make a truce with Russia.
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____ 26. The armistice signed near Paris in November 1918 brought an end to
A. World War I.
B. Kaiser Wilhelm's rule.
C. the Second Battle of the Marne.
D. Russia's involvement in the war.
A = True
B= False
__________ 27.
Article 231, also known as the "war guilt" clause, ordered Germany to pay huge war
reparations to Allied nations.
Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 28. What is the policy of glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war?
A. nationalism
B. militarism
C. imperialism
D. patriotism
____ 29. Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of World War I?
A. Otto von Bismark
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Kaiser Wilhelm II
D. George Clemenceau
____ 30. Which statement summarizes the Schlieffen Plan that Germany created to prepare for a two-front
war?
A. Attack Russia first, then France.
B. Ally with Russia to fight France.
C. Attack France first, then Russia.
D. Send half of the army to France and half to Russia.
____ 31. Why were Germany and Austria-Hungary known as Central Powers?
A. because of their location in the heart of Europe
B. because of their combined armies
C. because the war was fought on two fronts
D. because of their alliance in the war
____ 32. Who was forced to assume sole responsibility for the war under the Treaty of Versailles?
A. Italy
B. Russia
C. Germany
D. Austria-Hungary
____ 33. How did the Treaty of Versailles affect postwar Germany?
A. It gave Germans the drive to rebuild their nation on a stronger foundation.
B. It left Germany in much the same state as it was before the war.
C. It stabilized the German economy and gave monetary aid to the nation.
D. It left a legacy of bitterness and hatred in the hearts of the German people.
____ 34. What was the American public's opinion about joining the League of Nations?
A. It supported the president and actively took part in the League of Nations.
B. The public generally supported the idea but wanted to play a smaller role.
C. It believed that the United States should stay out of European affairs.
D. The public thought that America should lead the League of Nations.
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____ 35. What impact did the war have on the economy of Europe?
A. It gave women an opportunity to become heads of companies.
B. It enriched the treasuries of the Allied Powers.
C. It drained the treasuries of Europe.
D. It speeded the industrialization of Europe.
Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 36. What newly independent country emerged on the former Eastern Front?
A. Hungary
B. Poland
C. Czechoslovakia
D. Finland
____ 37. Which of the following Allies gained territory?
A. Italy
B. France
C. Russia
D. Belgium
____ 38. What happened to the countries Montenegro and Serbia?
A. Their people migrated to Germany.
B. All their people died in the war.
C. They became part of Yugoslavia.
D. The became part of Greece.
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Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 39. What event in Sarajevo ignited the Great War?
A. the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie
B. Austria's rejection of Serbia's offer and declaration of war on Serbia
C. Russia's mobilization of troops along the Austrian border
D. an ultimatum presented to Serbia in response to royal assassinations
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Answer Key
1. B. Duma
2. G. Nicholas II
3. F. Lenin
4. P. provisional government
5. H. Bolsheviks
6. C. pogrom
7. D. Rasputin
8. C. police terror
9. C. violently persecute Jews
10.
D. radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries
11.
B. Brest-Litovsk
12.
D. 10
13.
C. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland
14.
D. 650
15.
D. Barents Sea and the Black Sea
16.
C. They both upheld an autocratic government without reform.
17.
F. Germany
18.
H. Austria-Hungary
19.
False / France
20.
True
21.
False / Germany
22.
B. the nations involved devoted all their resources to it.
23.
D. purchases of consumer goods.
24.
C. influence public opinion.
25.
A. help Mexico regain U.S. territory.
26.
A. World War I.
27.
True
28.
B. militarism
29.
C. Kaiser Wilhelm II
30.
C. Attack France first, then Russia.
31.
A. because of their location in the heart of Europe
32.
C. Germany
33.
D. It left a legacy of bitterness and hatred in the hearts of the German people.
34.
C. It believed that the United States should stay out of European affairs.
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35.
C. It drained the treasuries of Europe.
36.
B. Poland
37.
A. Italy
38.
C. They became part of Yugoslavia.
39.
A. the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie
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Standards Summary
GA SSWH17.b
determine the causes and results of the Russian Revolution from the
rise of the Bolsheviks under Lenin to Stalin's first Five Year Plan
GA 20
Impact of Ideas (Communism, Revolution) Conflict Change Social
Institutions (Political System: Totalitarianism) (Economic System:
Socialism, Communism), and Individuals
and History (Lenin)
Discusses the causes and effects of the Bolshevik Revolution and the
rise of world communism.
NCSS Vc
describe the various forms institutions take, and explain how they
develop and change over time;
NCSS VIb
explain the purpose of government and analyze how its powers are
acquired, used, and justified;
NCSS VIc
analyze and explain ideas and mechanisms to meet needs and wants
of citizens, regulate territory, manage conflict, establish order and
security, and balance competing conceptions of a just society;
GA SSWH16.d
analyze the destabilization of Europe in the collapse of the great
empires including the Romanov and Hapsburg dynasties
GA 19
Conflict Technology
Traces and analyzes the causes and effects of World War I and
identifies the major events.
NCSS VId
compare and analyze the ways nations and organizations respond to
conflicts between forces of unity and forces of diversity;
NCSS VIf
analyze and evaluate conditions, actions, and motivations that
contribute to conflict and cooperation within and among nations;
NCSS IXb
explain conditions and motivations that contribute to conflict,
cooperation, and interdependence among groups, societies, and
nations;
GA SSWH17.e
describe the nature of totalitarianism and the police state that existed
in Russia, Germany, and Italy and how they differ from authoritarian
governments
GA 21
Impact of Ideas (Fascism/Nazism) Individuals and History (Hitler)
Discusses the totalitarian regimes by comparing and contrasting
fascism and communism.
NCSS IIId
calculate distance, scale, area, and density, and distinguish spatial
distribution patterns;
describe, differentiate, and explain the relationships among various
regional and global patterns of geographic phenomena such as
landforms, soils, climate, vegetation, natural resources, and
population;
NCSS IIIb
create, interpret, use, and synthesize information from various
representations of the earth, such as maps, globes, and
photographs;
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NCSS IIIc
use appropriate resources, data sources, and geographic tools such
as aerial photographs, satellite images, geographic information
systems (GIS), map projections, and cartography to generate,
manipulate, and interpret information such as atlases, data bases,
grid systems, charts, graphs, and maps;
GA SSWH16.a
identify the causes of the war including Balkan nationalism,
entangling alliances, and militarism
NCSS Ia
analyze and explain the ways groups, societies, and cultures address
human needs and concerns;
NCSS Ic
apply an understanding of culture as an integrated whole that
explains the functions and interactions of language, literature, the
arts, traditions, beliefs and values, and behavior patterns
GA SSWH16
The student will demonstrate an understanding of long term causes
of World War I and its global impact
GA SSWH16.b
describe the conditions on the war front for soldiers including the
Battle of Verdun,
GA SSWH16.c
explain the major decisions made in the Versailles Treaty including
German reparations and the mandate system that replaced Ottoman
control
NCSS IVe
examine the interactions of ethnic, national, or cultural influences in
specific situations or events;
NCSS IXa
explain how language, art, music, belief systems, and other cultural
elements can facilitate global understanding or cause
misunderstanding;
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