World War I Trivia

Vydáno dne 03.09.2014

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  1. The First World War ________ .
    1. began in August 1914 and lasted until January 1918
    2. began in July 1914 and lasted until November 1918
    3. began in June 1914 and lasted until December 1917
    4. began in May 1914 and lasted until April 1919
  2. The First World War (WWI) is also known as ________ .
    1. One World War
    2. the European War
    3. the Great War
    4. the Long War
  3. The immediate trigger for the war was ________ .
    1. Austrian invasion of Russian Poland
    2. Germany's anne­xation of the Sudetenland
    3. the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
    4. the Russian revolution
  4. In WWI, the opponents were ________ .
    1. European vs. Non-European states
    2. monarchies vs. republics
    3. the Allied (Entente) Powers vs. the Central Powers
    4. the Allies vs. the Axis
  5. In the battle of Ypres, in 1915, it was the first time that Germany had used ________ on a large scale on the Western Front.
    1. guns
    2. planes
    3. poison gas
    4. tanks
  6. Czechoslovak Legions are famous for their fighting on the ________ .
    1. Eastern Front
    2. Macedonian Front
    3. Ottoman Front
    4. Western Front
  7. Probably the most important formal end of WWI was ________ .
    1. the armistice (ceasefire) with Germany signed on 11/11 1918 at 11:11
    2. the Munich Agreement
    3. the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
    4. the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
  8. The reparations (compensation) which ________ had to pay after WWI led to the collapse of their economy, and, among other things, caused WWII.
    1. the Austrians
    2. the French
    3. the Germans
    4. the Italians
  9. Czechoslovakia came into existence in October 1918 as one of the successor states of ________ .
    1. the Austro-Hungarian Empire
    2. the German Empire
    3. the Russian Empire
    4. the Third Reich
  10. After WWI, ________ created as guarantor of the peace settlement.
    1. the European Communities were
    2. the League of Nations was
    3. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was
    4. The United Nations were
Správné odpovědi: 1) b, 2) c, 3) c, 4) c, 5) c, 6) a, 7) d, 8) c, 9) a, 10) b
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