AP World History: Modern › France and Britain in World War I
Who represented Great Britain at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919?
David Lloyd George
Winston Churchill
Clement Attlee
Robert Peel
Neville Chamberlain
David Lloyd George assumed leadership of the British government in 1915 and ruled as Prime Minister until 1922. As such, he was the British representative at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 where the victorious Allied powers discussed how to reorder Europe and the world in the wake of the First World War.
David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau were ________.
political leaders in Britain and France at the end of the First World War
convicted communists in the United States and France during the early years of the Cold War
two leaders of the Easter Rebellion in 1917
executed for treason and cowardice, respectively, during the First World War
NONE of these answers
David Lloyd George was the Prime Minister of England from 1916-1922. Georges Clemenceau was Prime Minister of France from 1917 to 1920. Both men were influential in reordering Europe after World War One at the Paris Peace Conference.
Britain entered World War One in response to German violation of which country's neutrality?
Belgium
Switzerland
France
Spain
Holland
World War One began on the Western Front with a massive German troop movement through Belgium and into North-Eastern France. In response to German troops moving through Belgium and occupying the nation, Britain declared war (it had promised to protect Belgian neutrality and was allied with the French). The French and the British stalled the German offensive at the Battle of the Marne, and the mobile period of the First World War ended, to be was replaced with years of brutal trench warfare.
The Schlieffen Plan was Germany's __________.
plan to fight the First World War on two fronts
plan to invade Belgium and Denmark
attempt to get Mexico to declare war on the United States
attempt to get China to declare war on Russia
plan to blockade the British isles
The Schlieffen Plan began life as an experiment within the German military command at how the Germany army might effectively fight a simultaneous war against Russia in the East and France in the West. Following the outbreak of the First World War, the plan was implemented in part.
Which action directly caused Britain to enter World War One?
German invasion of Belgium
German annexation of Czechoslovakia
German invasion of Poland
French invasion of Germany
Russian invasion of Austria-Hungary
Although signed into an alliance with France and Russia, Britain originally wanted to remain primarily neutral in the First World War. Certainly, Britain did not want to fully commit its forces to the conflict. However, Britain was sworn to defend Belgian sovereignty. Once Germany invaded Belgium, Britain was forced into the war on the side of France and Russia against the Germans.