- 1. What year did World War I start?
A) 1902
B) 1939
C) 1924
D) 1914
- 2. Which of the following is a nickname for World War One?
A) The War to End All Wars
B) WWI
C) All of these are correct
D) The Great War
- 3. Whose assassination served as the spark that started World War I?
A) Emperor Franz Joseph
B) Czar Alexander I
C) President McKinley
D) Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- 4. What were the two main alliance groups fighting against each other during WWI?
A) The Allied Powers and the Central Powers
B) The Central Powers and the Quadruple Alliance
C) The Central Powers and the Axis Powers
D) The Allied Powers and the Axis Powers
- 5. Which of the following countries all fought together as Allied Powers during World War I?
A) Germany, Russia and the United States
B) Great Britain, Ottoman Empire and Russia
C) Bulgaria, Germany and Great Britain
D) Great Britain, France and Russia
- 6. Which of the following were Central Powers during World War I?
A) France, Great Britain and Russia
B) Bulgaria, France and Great Britain
C) Germany, Russia and Serbia
D) Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Germany
- 7. What year did the United States enter WWI?
A) 1939
B) 1917
C) 1914
D) 1920
- 8. Who was the President of the United States during WWI?
A) John F Kennedy
B) David Lloyd George
C) Franklin D Roosevelt
D) Woodrow Wilson
- 10. What is the policy of requiring civilians to serve in the military called?
A) militarism
B) entente
C) conscription
D) mobilization
- 11. What term best describes the fighting along the Western Front during World War I?
A) civil warfare
B) trench warfare
C) nuclear warfare
D) guerilla warfare
- 12. What was the only continent that did not have a nation involved in World War I?
A) Asia
B) Europe
C) Antarctica
D) North America
- 13. Which alliance of countries is considered the victor in WWI?
A) The Central Powers
B) The Allied Powers
- 14. When was the armistice signed that ended the fighting in WWI?
A) November 11, 1918
B) November 3, 1945
C) December 24, 1915
D) December 25, 1939
- 15. What treaty was signed by the Allied Powers and Germany which officially brought an end to WWI?
A) Treaty of Munich
B) Treaty of Versailles
C) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
D) Treaty of Berlin
- 16. Which of the following technological innovations was first used during World War I?
A) Submarine
B) Poison Gas
C) Airplane
D) Rifle
- 17. What was the British passenger ship sunk by a German U-boat during World War I?
A) Titanic
B) Bismarck
C) Britannica
D) Lusitania
- 18. Who was the German foreign secretary who allegedly sent a telegram urging Mexico to declare war on the United States?
A) Otto von Bismarck
B) Zimmerman
C) Schlieffin
D) Wilhelm II
- 19. Which of the Allied Powers was the only nation to surrender to a Central Power during World War I?
A) England
B) Russia
C) France
D) Belgium
- 20. The US President's list of ideas to solve the problems that lead to WWI and create lasting peace were called...
A) The Zimmerman Note
B) The Entente
C) The Schlieffin Plan
D) The Fourteen Points
- 21. What nation did the Allied Powers (with the exception of the United States) blame for World War I?
A) Russia
B) Serbia
C) Bosnia
D) Germany
- 22. Who did Austria-Hungary declare war against to start World War I?
A) France
B) Russia
C) Serbia
D) Britain
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