Modern World History World War I and 1920's Test Review

Test Date:  Monday, April 7th

Format:

• 15 multiple choice questions, each worth 3 points (45 points total)
• 2 response questions, you choose 1, each worth 55 points

Material:  chapter 23 and all related class material:

• The major causes leading up to WWI, including

• Nationalism
• Militarism
• The alliance system
• the triple entente--Britain, France, and Russia
• the triple alliance--Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
• The war plans and their details
• The Schlieffen plan; Plan XVII (17)
• The European’s perception of what war would be like
• The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• 1914:
• The launching of the Schlieffen Plan, the Battle of the Marne, the Race to the Sea 
• 1915:
• The 2nd battle of Ypres (first poison gas)
• The Gallipoli campaign--it's goal
• The sinking of the Lusitania (submarine warfare and it's significance)
• 1916:
• The Battles of Verdun and the Somme
• WW I as a war of attrition
• First use of tanks
• purpose of the tank, effectiveness of the tank
• 1917:
• United States entry into the War
• causes--loans, unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmerman note
• U.S. military build-up
• The Russian collapse and Russian revolution
• toll of the war on Russia, abdication of the Tsar; ermergence of Lenin; the communist revolution, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• 1918
• The conclusion of the war--the German Spring offensives and the failure of the German army in August 1918
• The Armistice, November 11, 1918

• The Peace Process
• The Big Four
• Goals of Clemenceau and Lloyd George
• Punishments for Germany
• Reparations
• Force depletion
• War guilt
• Goals of Woodrow Wilson
• Main themes of Wilson's 14 Points
• No alliances
• Freedom of the seas
• Self-Determination
• League of Nations
• The Treaty of Versailles and reaction to it

• The 1920's
• Conditions in Europe vs. the United States
• The "Roaring" 20's
• U.S. economic prosperity and Prohibition
• The Stock Market Crash and Great Depression
• Causes
• Reactions
• Global effects
• Art and culture of the Post WW I years
• Pessimism