Chapter 29 Sections 1

Name ______Date ______Period ______

The Great War

Chapter 29 Sections 1

Introduction

n  A. Also called “______”

n  The “______”

n  First major war since 1815

n  Unlike World War II, no clear-cut lines of ______and ______

n  Until World War II, the world’s most ______

n  The ______meets warfare

n  “______”

n  Set the pattern for the 20th century

1.  Define the following:

a.  Nationalism

b.  Imperialism

c.  Militarism

2.  What nations comprised the Triple Alliance?

3.  What nations made the Triple Entente?

Balkans

4.  Controlled by ______until 19th century

______claimed area as protector

Ethnicity, religion

______desired political domination

Serbian Nationalism

Hoped to absorb all Slavs in Balkan Peninsula

______

Austria opposed

______-______

What was the name of the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

5.  What was the goal of the “Black Hand”?

6.  What was the name of the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

Balkans

7.  A Chain Reaction:

a.  Archduke Franz Ferdinand is ______.

b.  Austria attacks ______.

c.  ______has an alliance with Russia.

d.  Russia attacks ______and ______.

e.  Germany attacks Russia’s ally ______.

f.  Germans go through ______to attack France.

g.  Belgium has an alliance with ______.

h.  England defends Belgium, attacks ______.

8.  8. Allied Powers Central Powers

Great Britian Germany

France Austria-Hungary

Russia Turkey (1914)

Japan (1914) Bulgaria (1915)

Italy (1915)

USA (1917)

9.  What was the Schlieffen Plan?

10. The first battle of the ______was perhaps the most important event of the war. A quick victory no

longer seemed possible. The war settled into a ______.

11. What was the first battle on the Western front?

12. List at least four new weapons used for the first time in WWI.

13. The stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border was called the ______.

Germans crushed the Russian army at the battle of ______. More than 30,000 Russian soldiers were killed.

14. Why was Russia’s army continually short on supplies?

15. How many Russian soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured in 1915 alone?

Section 1 quiz

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. Italy

B. Serbia

C. Russia

D. France

E. Greece

F. Germany

G. Great Britain

H. Austria-Hungary

____ 1. Which THREE nations belonged to the Triple Entente?

____ 2. Which THREE nations belonged to the Triple Alliance?

____ 3. Which nation annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1908?

____ 4. Which TWO non-Balkan nations competed for dominance of the Balkans?

____ 5. Which nation greatly regretted its loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in 1870?

____ 6. Which nation's heir to the throne was assassinated in 1914 by a Serbian nationalist?

____ 7. Which nation was unified by Otto von Bismarck and later ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm II?

____ 8. Which nation was the first to declare war in what would come to be called the Great War?

____ 9. Which TWO nations competed for industrial dominance of Europe during the early 1900s?

____ 10. Which nation did Otto von Bismarck believe was the greatest threat to peace in Europe?

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