Robison Western Civ

WWI Video Questions From Turning Point/History Book

1.    Where is Sarajevo? What touched off a civil war in that country in the early 1990s?

2.    Who are the various warring factions?

3.    Based on the description of the seventh-grade student shown at the beginning of the video, how would you describe life in Sarajevo during the mid-1990s?

4.    What war was touched off by an event in Sarajevo in 1914? What was the event?

5.    What was the cost of that war in lives?

6.    Why are international troops present in Bosnia?

7.    How did World War I begin?

8.    What were some of the new weapons introduced in World I?

9.    Which nations originally made up the Allied Powers?

10. On what day did World War I come to an end?

11. How did one wartime leader memorably refer to the killing that occurred during World War I?