History for the bagrut: nationalism, the wars and the state · Ages 17–18
World War 1: Causes, Alliances, and Aftermath
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This worksheet is designed for 12th grade history students preparing for exams. Answer each question in 1 to 4 complete sentences using specific dates, names, and concepts.
Identify the event that triggered the July Crisis of 1914, including the date, city, and individuals involved.
Name the three major powers that formed the Triple Entente and the three original members of the Triple Alliance.
Explain how the German invasion of Belgium on August 3, 1914, widened the conflict.
Describe two ways trench warfare altered the home front and civilian society between 1914 and 1918.
List four sovereign empires that collapsed as a direct consequence of World War 1.
Name three new independent states established in Eastern or Central Europe as part of the post-war peace settlement.
Compare how France and Germany viewed the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Passage: 'The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage.' (Article 231). Explain each country's perspective on this clause.
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Identify the event that triggered the July Crisis of 1914, including the date, city, and individuals involved.
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist linked to the Black Hand.
Name the three major powers that formed the Triple Entente and the three original members of the Triple Alliance.
The Triple Entente consisted of Great Britain, France, and Russia. The Triple Alliance originally consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
Explain how the German invasion of Belgium on August 3, 1914, widened the conflict.
Germany invaded neutral Belgium to execute the Schlieffen Plan and attack France quickly. Great Britain had guaranteed Belgian neutrality under the 1839 Treaty of London, prompting Britain to declare war on Germany on August 4, 1914.
Describe two ways trench warfare altered the home front and civilian society between 1914 and 1918.
Governments instituted total war measures, including rationing food and fuel and redirecting civilian industry toward munitions. Millions of women entered industrial factories and public transport jobs to replace enlisted soldiers.
List four sovereign empires that collapsed as a direct consequence of World War 1.
The Russian Empire, the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire.
Name three new independent states established in Eastern or Central Europe as part of the post-war peace settlement.
Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia (originally the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes). Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland are also correct.
Compare how France and Germany viewed the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Passage: 'The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage.' (Article 231). Explain each country's perspective on this clause.
France viewed Article 231 as fair justice and a vital security guarantee to weaken Germany and pay for massive devastation on French soil. Germany saw the clause as an unjust 'diktat' (dictated peace) that placed sole moral blame for a complex European conflict on one nation.