World Wars NDA Questions

World Wars MCQ Questions

13.
The First World War saw the introduction of several new and devastating weapons and technologies, including poison gas, tanks, machine guns and:
A.
Guided missiles
B.
Nuclear weapons
C.
Military submarines (U-boats)
D.
Satellite reconnaissance
ANSWER :
C. Military submarines (U-boats)
14.
The prolonged and extremely costly Battle of Verdun (1916), fought primarily between French and German forces, became infamous as a symbol of the immense human cost of:
A.
Naval warfare
B.
Guerrilla resistance
C.
Colonial expansion
D.
Attritional trench warfare on the Western Front
ANSWER :
D. Attritional trench warfare on the Western Front
15.
The German strategy of 'unrestricted submarine warfare', involving attacks on merchant and passenger ships without warning, was a significant factor contributing to the entry into the war of:
A.
The United States
B.
Russia
C.
Italy
D.
Japan
ANSWER :
A. The United States
16.
The sinking of a British passenger liner by a German U-boat in 1915, which killed many civilians including American citizens and heightened tensions with the United States, was the:
A.
Bismarck
B.
RMS Lusitania
C.
USS Arizona
D.
RMS Titanic
ANSWER :
B. RMS Lusitania
17.
The United States formally entered the First World War in 1917, influenced partly by unrestricted submarine warfare and partly by the interception of a secret German diplomatic communication proposing a military alliance with Mexico, known as the:
A.
Brunswick Manifesto
B.
Balfour Declaration
C.
Zimmermann Telegram
D.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
ANSWER :
C. Zimmermann Telegram
18.
Following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Russia withdrew from the First World War and signed a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1918, known as the Treaty of:
A.
Versailles
B.
Trianon
C.
Sevres
D.
Brest-Litovsk
ANSWER :
D. Brest-Litovsk