Unit One > Chapter 6

Basic Knowledge Guide:

I. LITERAL COMPREHENSION

1. On what did the stamina of armies depend?

2. What was the most spectacular of the wartime technological advances?

3. What was the effect of this technological advance on the home front?

4. What technical invention did the generals fail to take full advantage of?

5. List the 3 methods governments had for paying for the war.

6. From which nation did the European countries borrow heavily?

7. What was the economic result of such borrowing?

8. What conspicuous social change (not yet completed) resulted form the war?

9. What was DORA, and what power did it give the British government?

10. Which French general pulled the demoralized French army together again?

II. INFERENTIAL COMPREHENSION: Read between the lines to determine whether these statements are true or false. Put T or F as appropriate.

11. An industrialized country was more likely to be on the winning side than and agricultural one.

12. War stimulates technological progress.

13. The USA was bound to cll the shots at the peace conference.

14. Democracy is a casualty of war.

III. APPLICATION. Use your own knowledge as well as the information in the chapter to determine whether the following statements are true or false. Put T or F as appropriate.

15. Natioanlism is stronger than imperialism.

16. The British army consisted of "lions led by donkeys".