Practice Test 2 6 The original Triple Alliance was composed of a Germany Austria Hungary and Italy b Germany Austria Hungary and the Ottoman Empire c France United Kingdom Great Britain and Russia d All of the Above e None of the Above When the First World War broke out the Allies were a France b United Kingdom and its Commonwealth c Imperial Russia d All of the Above e None of the Above Before the end of the First World War the Allies included Italy Japan and the United States a b Argentina Mexico and Brazil c The Shire Rohan and Gondor d All of the Above e None of the Above The Central Powers were a Germany Austria Hungary and the Ottoman Empire b Germany Austria Hungary and Japan c d All of the Above e None of the Above Imperial Russia the United States and Japan The immediate cause of the First World War was the assassination of Otto von Bismarck the assassination of Franz Ferdinand the assassination of Tsar Alexander II a b c d All of the Above e None of the Above On the Western Front trench warfare was the norm a b blitzkrieg was the norm c atomic war was the norm d All of the Above e None of the Above Great slaughters occurred on the Western Front because of the combination of a tanks airplanes and mechanized infantry b barbed wire machineguns and poison gas c barbed wire machineguns and helicopters d All of the Above e None of the Above Active Ottoman fronts included a Gallipoli Palestine and Arabia plus Mesopotamia b Gallipoli Palestine and the Pacific Ocean c Gallipoli Mesopotamia and East Africa d All of the Above e None of the Above Two important figures on the Ottoman fronts were a Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Adolf Hitler b Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and T E Lawrence c T E Lawrence and Wilfred Owen d All of the Above e None of the Above a Hermann Goering b Frank Luke c Manfred von Richthofen d All of the Above e None of the Above The most famous airman of the First World War was the Red Knight or Red Baron The impact of the First World War was enormous a it expanded state powers surveillance of citizens conscription drafting men taxation war is expensive and allowed for the suspension of individual rights b women worked outside the home in factories and on the farms replacing men who were sent to the fronts it was a war of attrition that decimated the old aristocracies and educated elites in all of Europe and made the survivors skeptical of all claims c d All of the Above e None of Above New weapons came to the fore in the First World War they were tanks submarines and chemical weapons poison gas a b horses galleys and siege engines c d All of the Above e None of the Above tanks submarines and atomic weapons the A Bomb Four empires collapsed as a result of the war they were a Ottoman American Qing and Taisho b Austria Hungary Imperial Germany Ottoman American c Austria Hungary Imperial Germany Ottoman Imperial Russia d All of the Above e None of the Above The peace treaties at Versailles created a new problem a Germans became minorities in East European states such as Poland and Czechoslovakia and the new Weimar Republic was saddled with a war guilt clause and costly reparations b Americans moved to Paris in the aftermath of the war and partied until the Great Depression In Africa and Asia c Self determination and racial equality were extended to groups outside of Europe d e All of the Above f None of the Above Another consequence of the war was the outbreak of revolution in two areas of the European theater they were a Mexico and Ireland b Mexico and Russia c Ireland and Russia d All of the Above e None of the Above