What region was called the "powder keg" of Europe because of increasing nationalism?
A. Germany
B. the Balkans
C. England
D. Austria-Hungary
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What is nationalism?
Love for your country / pride in your country
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True or False: Along the Western Front during World War I, the line between armies barely moved because of the high number of deaths.
True - trench warfare meant many people died and few advances were made
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What countries lost World War I?
Germany and Austria-Hungary (and Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire)
100
What University did Mr. Cloward attend?
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn, UPenn)
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What is militarism?
Building up armies and weapons
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What are trenches?
The long holes dug by soldiers to protect themselves during World War I
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Name two of the new kinds of technology (mostly weapons) used in World War I.
Possible answer:
- machine guns
- poison gas
- airplanes
- tanks
- flamethrowers
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Germans were forced to pay large war ________________ after World War I
reparations
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What continent was most of World War One fought on?
Europe
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What were the names of the two alliances that increased tensions between European countries - a cause of World War I
Triple Entente and Triple Alliance
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What is the French word that means "understanding" used to describe one of the alliances before World War I? (You only get the point if you pronounce it correctly!)
Entente (on-TAUNT)
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Why did the United States join World War I?
Germans began unrestricted submarine warfare (or a similar answer)
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What long-term effect do historians think the treaty ending World War I had on Germany?
It made it possible for Hitler, fascism, and the Nazis to come to power.
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What are the 3 countries Mr. Cloward has been a teacher in?
U.S., Germany, China
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Whose assassination started World War I?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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What is the word we learned that means "deaths in a war"?
casualties
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What was the main effect of new technology on World War I?
Possible answers:
- higher death toll (number of casualties/deaths)
- long stalemate through trench warfare
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What was the name of the treaty that officially ended the war with Germany?
The Treaty of Versailles
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What term describes the problem Germany had after World War I, where money became worthless and prices skyrocketed?