WORLD WAR I
EXAM REVIEW
 


Your second examination will cover chapters 8-14 in your text.  It covers the years 1915-1916 and the Home Fronts.  Make sure you have read these chapters and your class notes as well before the exam.  Your exam will have three sections.  Section one will be short answer term identification.  You will need to identify the term and explain the significance.  These should be about five to six sentences in length.  Sections two and three will be essays.  In each section I will give you a couple of essays to choose from.   You will choose one of the questions in each section and answer it.  Section one will be worth twenty points and sections two and three will be worth forty points each. 
Good luck!


Things you should know:
  • Both German and British/French strategies on the Western Front in 1915
  • Second Battle of Ypres—Falkenhayn’s reasons, use of gas
  • The Artois/Champagne offensive
  • Gallipoli offensive—Reasons for the Allies attacking at Gallipoli, course of the battle and the outcome.  Churchill’s fall from politics.
  • Italy’s entrance into the war—Treaty of London and Italian campaigns against Austria-Hungary
  • The Galician Front—German drive to aid Austria and push the Russians back
  • Tsar Nicholas II’s assumption of command of the Russian armies
  • 1916 German and British/French strategies
  • Battle of Verdun
  • Battle of the Somme
  • Isonzo offensive on Southern Front
  • Russian offensives on the Eastern Front—Brusilov
  • Entrance of smaller players—i.e. Rumania, Bulgaria and Greece
  • German and British naval strategies to the Battle of Jutland
  • Air war—Zeppelins and air planes—use of bombing.
  • War aims of the different belligerents
  • The various Home Fronts—political, economic, women, propaganda
 


Terms:
  1. Second Battle of Ypres
  2. Artois/Champagne Offensive
  3. Gallipoli
  4. Treaty of London
  5. Battle of Verdun
  6. Marshall Petain
  7. Battle of the Somme
  8. Isonzo Offensive
  9. General Alexei Brusilov
  10. Baron Manfred von Richthofen
  11. John Jellicoe
  12. Sacred Union (Union Sacrée)
  13. Total War