Thursday, April 05, 2007

What do YOU know about WWI?

Here's the WWI test my kids have to take tomorrow. Can you pass?

  1. ____ U-boats were created by the:
    1. French
    2. Italians
    3. Britons
    4. Germans
    5. Belgiums
    6. Americans
  1. ____ Dangerous area between trenches:
    1. Trenches
    2. Frontal assault
    3. Reconnaissance
    4. No Man’s Land
    5. Total War
    6. Grenade
  1. ____ Large, metal air balloon also called a dirigible.
    1. dynamite
    2. zeppelin
    3. submarine
    4. tank
    5. chemical warfare
    6. machine gun

  1. ____ Country that succeeded at using chemical warfare.
    1. America
    2. Britain
    3. Germany
    4. France
    5. Armenia
    6. Belgium
  1. ____ Country that failed at using chemical warfare, killing 60,000 of their own men.
    1. America
    2. Britain
    3. Germany
    4. France
    5. Armenia
    6. Belgium
  1. ____ Another word for spying….
    1. Reconnaissance
    2. Conscription
    3. Assassination
    4. Genocide
    5. Dirigible
    6. Shrapnel
  1. ____ Another term for “the draft”…..
    1. Reconnaissance
    2. Conscription
    3. Assassination
    4. Genocide
    5. Dirigible
    6. Shrapnel
  1. ____ The killing of an entire group of people
    1. Reconnaissance
    2. Conscription
    3. Assassination
    4. Genocide
    5. Dirigible
    6. Shrapnel
  1. ____ The entire country of people that was killed
    1. American
    2. Britain
    3. Germany
    4. France
    5. Armenia
    6. Belgium
  1. ____ The document that officially ended the war
    1. 14 points
    2. Treaty of Versailles
    3. The Big Three
    4. Consignment
    5. First Amendment
    6. Espionage Act

B. Name the country each person is from!

  1. Eugene Debs ___________________________________________________________
  2. Kaiser William II ___________________________________________________________
  3. Tsar Nicholas II ___________________________________________________________
  4. Woodrow Wilson ___________________________________________________________
  5. Georges Clemenceau ___________________________________________________________
  6. Archduke Franz Ferdinand ___________________________________________________________
  7. Rasputin ___________________________________________________________
  8. Sophia ___________________________________________________________
  9. Alexandra (2) ___________________________________________________________
  10. Vladimir Lenin ___________________________________________________________
  11. Gavrilo Princip ___________________________________________________________
  12. Red Baron __________________________________________________________

D. Match the name to the action of the person. People can be used more than once!

  1. Leader of Russia & head of the Bolshevik party. _____________________________________
  2. Nicknames: Holy devil, mad monk _____________________________________
  3. Had a messed up hand, German. _____________________________________
  4. Member of the Black Hand Society. _____________________________________
  5. Ruler of Germany during WWI. _____________________________________
  6. Secret club that was behind the assassination of the heir of the Austro-Hungarian throne. _____________________________________
  1. Ruler of Russia who was killed in his basement.
  2. Was thrown into prison for speaking against the war. _____________________________________
  3. Was assassinated with his wife after the driver had taken a wrong turn. _____________________________________
  1. Had 80 kills, was killed in a dogfight. _____________________________________
  2. Was said to have supernatural, healing powers. _____________________________________
  3. Leader of France who signed Treaty of Versailles _____________________________________
  4. President of the United States _____________________________________
  5. Wife of Tzar Nicholas _____________________________________
  6. Got himself a sandwich, and then shot and killed a very important person. _____________________________________

E. Short Answer. Give a sentence or two to explain

1. Give me two facts about the Battle of Somme.

2. Give me two facts about the Battle of Verdun.

3. What is a POW?

4. Why did America finally enter WWI?

5. What was the Espionage Act?

F. Essay. Explain in several sentences.

1.E xplain Belgium’s role in WWI. (In your sentence, make sure you include Britain, France and Germany)

2. Explain the arms race and how it contributed to WWI. (Words to include: HMS Dreadnaught, Germany, Britain, allies)

3. Explain Rasputin’s relationship with Alexandra and how it contributed to the death of the Romanov family.

4. Explain why the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was shot and what it caused. (Words to include: annex, Black Hand Society)

G. Map: Label the following countries.
Germany

Austria

Hungary

Turkey

Armenia

Italy

United Kingdom

Russia

Spain

France

Bosnia

Belgium

Extra Credit (1 pt each)

Norway

Sweden

Finland

Croatia

Ireland

Iceland

Denmark

Greece

Moldova

ETC.

NOTE: They also have the match the faces with the names of all of the people from part B!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm pretty sure I was just tired reading it-- I'm not smarter than a 6th grader. ~WYNN