EXAMINATION  1  REVIEW: 

WORLD WAR I

You examination will cover chapters 1-7 in your text.  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:

• Changes in Europe during the 19th century—i.e. Congress of Vienna, Unification of Germany/Italy, Industrial Revolution, Colonization, etc.
• Formation of the Alliance Systems of the respective camps
• Rise of militarism
• Rise of Nationalism—be able to identify and describe nationalism
• The political nature of the various European countries: France, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Italy, etc.
• The Bosnian Crisis
• The Moroccan Crises
• German diplomacy
• The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
• July Crisis
• The German and French strategies
• Why the Schlieffen plan failed
• Why Plan XVII failed
• The Eastern Front (East Prussia)
• The Balkans Front
• Blockade
• German war aims in 1914

Terms:

1. Otto von Bismarck
2. Triple Alliance
3. Triple Entente
4. Dual Alliance
5. Tsar Nicholas II
6. The Black Hand
7. HMS Dreadnaught
8. Kaiser Wilhelm (William) II
9. Bosnian Crisis
10. Schlieffen Plan
11. Battle of Tannenberg
12. General Paul von Hindenburg
13. General Joseph Joffre
14. Sir Edward Gray