• 1. 
    Canada fought on the side of Britain in World War I.

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  • FALSE
  • 2. 
    The Flying Tigers flew in France during World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 3. 
    "The Red Baron" was the nickname of a Communist leader.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 4. 
    World War I began immediately after an Austrian nobleman was slapped in public.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 5. 
    There were many veterans of World War I alive in 2000.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 6. 
    Italy was an ally of Germany in World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 7. 
    World War I ended on November 11, 1918.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 8. 
    The Triple Entente was an association between Great Britain, the United States, and France.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 9. 
    The treaties of Brest-Litovsk were signed by the Central Powers with the Ukrainian Republic and with Soviet Russia.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 10. 
    Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre was known as “the Victor of the Marne.”

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 11. 
    The Germans first used poison gas as a weapon during the Battle of Passchendaele.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 12. 
    The Fourteen Points outlined Woodrow Wilson's proposals for a postwar peace settlement.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 13. 
    The sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-boat in May 1915 prompted the United States' immediate entry into World War I before the end of the year.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 14. 
    William Barker became the most-decorated war hero in Canadian history as a fighter pilot in World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 15. 
    The Hindenburg Line was a defensive barrier improvised by the French Army on the Western Front in World War I.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 16. 
    "Big Bertha" was a term for a type of howitzer that was first used by the German army during World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 17. 
    The Balfour Declaration was a statement of British support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 18. 
    Sir Ian Hamilton led the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the unsuccessful campaign against Turkey in the Gallipoli Peninsula.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 19. 
    Aleksey Alekseyevich Brusilov led the largest Russian assault during World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 20. 
    The Triple Alliance was a secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 21. 
    The Treaty of London was a secret treaty to bring Italy into World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 22. 
    Blimps were used by navies during World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 23. 
    The Battle of Verdun was the shortest battle of World War I.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 24. 
    Raymond Poincaré was president of the French Third Republic during World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 25. 
    The Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret convention made during World War I between Great Britain and the United States.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 26. 
    The Paris Peace Conference set the peace terms after World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 27. 
    The Battles of the Isonzo comprised five battles fought during World War I.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 28. 
    The Constantinople Agreement was a secret agreement between the members of the Triple Entente.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 29. 
    The French general Philippe Pétain became a national hero for his victory at the Battle of Jutland.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 30. 
    The Treaty of Versailles was a peace document signed by the Allied powers and by Germany at the end of World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 31. 
    The Battle of the Frontiers is the collective name for the first great clashes on the Western Front of World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 32. 
    The Treaty of Sèvres abolished the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 33. 
    The Battle of Tannenberg ended in a German victory over the Russians.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 34. 
    Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, directed the Palestine campaign in World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 35. 
    The Treaty of Lausanne was the final treaty concluding World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 36. 
    Paris Guns were a type of long-range cannon used by the French during World War I.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 37. 
    The first depth charges, or depth bombs, were developed by the United States during World War I.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 38. 
    The Dawes Plan was the arrangement for payments of reparations by Germany after World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 39. 
    The Second Battle of the Marne was the first large German offensive of World War I.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 40. 
    The Battle of Caporetto is also known as the 12th Battle of the Isonzo.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 41. 
    The United States declared war on Germany in 1916.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 42. 
    The Black Hand was a secret Serbian society that helped plan the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, precipitating the outbreak of World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 43. 
    The British Expeditionary Force went to France at the start of both World War I and World War II to support French armies.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 44. 
    The Battle of Amiens marked the beginning of the "hundred days," a string of Allied offensive successes that led to the end of the war.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 45. 
    The Maxim machine gun was largely responsible for the epithet “the machine gun war” for World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 46. 
    The Battle of Arras was a German offensive on French defenses.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 47. 
    Alvin York was an American World War I hero.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 48. 
    The battles of the Meuse-Argonne were a series of final confrontations on the Western Front in World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 49. 
    Isaac Newton Lewis is best known for his invention of the Hotchkiss machine gun, widely used in World War I.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
  • 50. 
    The observance of Veterans Day in the United States originated on the first anniversary of the 1918 armistice that ended World War I.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 51. 
    Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando headed Italy’s delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference.

  • TRUE
  • FALSE
  • 52. 
    The Christmas Truce of 1914 had been officially agreed upon in early December after an appeal by Pope Benedict XV.

  • FALSE
  • TRUE
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