The First World War

Question 1

Treaty between Germany and Bolshevik-controlled Russia, signed in March 1918, that ceded to Germany all of Russia’s western territories.

Answer 1

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Question 2

Minority group of Russian socialists, headed by Vladimir Lenin, who espoused an immediate transition to a socialist state. It became the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.

Answer 2

Bolsheviks

Question 3

A conflict that demands extensive state regulation of economic production, distribution, and consumption; and that blurs the distinction between civilian and soldier.

Answer 3

total war

Question 4

The area between the combatants’ trenches on the Western Front during World War I.

Answer 4

no-man’s-land

Question 5

Informal defensive agreement linking France, Great Britain, and Russia before World War I.

Answer 5

Triple Entente

Question 6

Payments imposed upon Germany after World War I by the Versailles Treaty to cover the costs of the war.

Answer 6

reparations

Question 7

German military plan devised in 1905 that called for a sweeping attack on France through Belgium and the Netherlands in preparation for a two-front war

Answer 7

Schlieffen Plan

Question 8

Association of states set up after World War I to resolve international conflicts through open and peaceful negotiation.

Answer 8

League of Nations

Question 9

Treaty between Germany and the victorious Allies after World War I.

Answer 9

Treaty of Versailles

Question 10

The principles outlined by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson as the basis for a new world order after World War I.

Answer 10

Fourteen Points

Question 11

During World War I, the members of the Triple Entente became known as the __________.

Answer 11

Allied Powers

Question 12

World War I initially started as a conflict between which two countries?

Answer 12

Austria & Serbia

Question 13

Which event forced the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II?

Answer 13

February Revolution