Name _______________________________________________________________ Period ________ Date

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World War I Section 1 Anticipation Guide

Directions

Read the following statements and decide if the statement is true or false
before you read the section titled Neutrality to War from pages 170-179.
After you decide if the statements are true or false use the book to provide
evidence for each false statement to make it true.
Statement
The causes of
WW1 were
Nationalism,
Militarism,
Alliances, and
Imperialism
An alliance is an
agreement among
nations to unite
for a common
cause

Tru
e
X

Fals
e

Page
Number

172

The Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir

to Austria-Hungary and his wife were
assassinated by young Bosnian boys who
were officially from Serbia.

172 map

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria,

and Ottoman Empire. (Italy began siding
with Germany, but switched sides after
war broke out)

Evidence

The final trigger

that caused
World War I was
the assassination
of the British
President Francis
Ferdinand.
x
The largest
group of Allies
consisted of
Great Britain,
France, and
Russia
The major group
of Central
Powers consisted
of Germany,

France, AustriaHungary

Italy had been

allied with
Germany and
Austria but
changed sides
once the war
started

173-174

Beginning of war was deadly due to the

new types of machine guns, poisonous
gases, and tanks, cars, and airplanes.

175

There were 3 groups of Americans when

war broke out, Isolationists,
Interventionists, and Internationalists.

176

The Lusitania was a British ship that had

American passengers on the ship.
Germany sunk the ship but promised
America it would no longer sink any more
passenger ships. But in 1916, the
Germans sank a French ship called the
Sussex. This caused the Americans to
start to prepare to enter into World War I.

When the war

began fighting
was relatively
easy
because of the
new technology
and the trenches

When fighting
began, all
Americans were
categorized into
one group called
isolationists.
The sinking of
the American
ship, the
Lusitania,
immediately
caused America
to enter WW1.
X
Before American
entered the war,
President
Woodrow Wilson
created the

National Defense
Act and the
Naval
Construction Act
X

179

The Zimmerman
note was
between
Germany and the
United States
promising an
alliance.

The Zimmerman note was a telegram

from Germany to Mexico promising an
alliance if Mexico entered the war with
Germany. Germany promised to return
once owned Mexican land back to Mexico
if they fought on the side of Germany

Name _______________________________________________________________ Period ________ Date

__________

World War I Section 1 Anticipation Guide

Directions
Read the following statements and decide if the statement is true or false
before you read the section.
After you decide if the statements are true or false use the book pages 170179 to provide evidence for each false statement to make it true.
Statement
The causes of
WW1 were
Nationalism,
Militarism,
Alliances, and
Imperialism
An alliance is an
agreement among
nations to unite
for a common
cause

The final trigger

that caused
World War I was
the assassination
of the British

Tru
e

Fals
e

Page
Numb
er

Evidence to make the false statement

true

President Francis
Ferdinand.
The largest
group of Allies
consisted of
Great Britain,
France, and
Russia
The major group
of Central
Powers consisted
of Germany,
France, AustriaHungary

Italy had been

allied with
Germany and
Austria but
changed sides
once the war
started

When the war

began fighting
was relatively
easy
because of the
new technology
and the trenches

When fighting
began, all
Americans were
categorized into
one group called
isolationists.

The sinking of
the American
ship, the
Lusitania,
immediately
caused America
to enter WW1.
Before American
entered the war,
President
Woodrow Wilson
created the
National Defense
Act and the
Naval
Construction Act
The Zimmerman
note was
between
Germany and the
United States
promising an
alliance.