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Quiz about World War I How and Why It Happened
Quiz about World War I How and Why It Happened

World War I: How and Why It Happened Quiz


This is a quiz about how and why World War I started. It also includes questions about the different kinds of warfare and battles.

A multiple-choice quiz by Disney101. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
Disney101
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
221,983
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
7525
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 74 (8/10), Guest 165 (5/10), Guest 119 (0/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which of these is NOT said to be one of reasons for World War I? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. What ignited the "powder keg in Europe" and triggered World War I? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What plan did the Germans use when invading Belgium in August, 1914? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. The French, as well as other Allies, held off the Germans from getting to Paris. What kind of warfare was the result of neither side being able to defeat the opposing side? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What is widely regarded as the key incident that swung public opinion in America against Germany relatively early in WWI? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. For a few hours during the trench warfare there was peace between the Allies and the Germans at Christmas, 1914.


Question 7 of 10
7. Which country committed genocide during WWI? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. There was a German artist who went to war to just live the war himself. He just wanted to experience it first hand.


Question 9 of 10
9. What was the longest battle of World War I? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What was the term used at the time to describe the psychological effects of the war on some soldiers?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which of these is NOT said to be one of reasons for World War I?

Answer: Socialism

The Alliance System was another reason for World War I. Nationalism often led to competitive and antagonistic rivalries among nations. Colonies supplied the European imperial powers with raw materials and provided markets for manufactured goods, which had to do with Imperialism. By 1880 the strongest nation on the European continent from a military and economic point of view was Germany.
2. What ignited the "powder keg in Europe" and triggered World War I?

Answer: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, visited the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. As the royal entourage drove through the city, a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, stepped from the crowd and shot the Archduke and his wife.
3. What plan did the Germans use when invading Belgium in August, 1914?

Answer: Schlieffen Plan

They used this plan in the hope they would defeat France quickly before Russia had mobilised her forces, by going through Belgium to get to Paris, France. This "short-cut" involved invading a neutral country and brought Britain into the war at once. Germany failed to defeat France, and Russia mobilised faster than the Germans had thought was possible.
4. The French, as well as other Allies, held off the Germans from getting to Paris. What kind of warfare was the result of neither side being able to defeat the opposing side?

Answer: Trench warfare

By the spring of 1915, two parallel systems of deep, rat-infested trenches crossed France from the Belgium coast to the Swiss Alps. The Germans occupied one side and the Allied soldiers the other.
5. What is widely regarded as the key incident that swung public opinion in America against Germany relatively early in WWI?

Answer: Sinking of the Lusitania

The Zimmermann Telegram was so incredible that it was regarded with considerable skepticism.
6. For a few hours during the trench warfare there was peace between the Allies and the Germans at Christmas, 1914.

Answer: True

The Germans began singing and lighting candles and then the French and British began to sing along because it was a special moment in time when there was peace during war but it didn't last long.
7. Which country committed genocide during WWI?

Answer: The Ottoman (Turkish) Empire

Starting in 1915 the Young Turk junta started the systematic mass slaughter of the Armenian minority. They were rounded up; some were killed at once, but most were forced to go on a long march into the Syrian desert without adequate food or drink. They died of thirst, hunger and disease.

In the period from about 1915-17 about one million Armenians were murdered. The Turkish government still vehemently denies the genocide.
8. There was a German artist who went to war to just live the war himself. He just wanted to experience it first hand.

Answer: True

Otto Dix (1891-1969), a German painter, went to war and after he came home he painted gruesome corpses and the like to show people what the war was actually like. During the Third Reich he was classed as a 'degenerate artist' and some of this works were burned.
9. What was the longest battle of World War I?

Answer: Verdun

The Battle of Verdun took place during the year of 1916. 1,000,000 French and Germans were killed, wounded, or missing at the Battle of Verdun. The loss of Verdun would have been devastating for the French. They held it, but at an enormous cost in lives.
10. What was the term used at the time to describe the psychological effects of the war on some soldiers?

Answer: shell shock

Many men went insane mostly because of the dead bodies that they had to live with throughout the war and other images of the war. Shell shock was, it seems, a general term for a range of conditions most of which would now be called post traumatic stress syndrome. Doctors used many methods to treat shell shock. Some patients improved, but others didn't.
Source: Author Disney101

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