About This Drill
AP World History Unit 7 Drill 22 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 7: Global Conflict. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This AP World History Unit 7 drill uses a map of WWI alliance systems to explore the causes and early course of World War I. Questions test your ability to analyze geographic and political relationships, evaluate a historian's qualifications about alliance membership, and interpret how the map's information relates to the war's development.
Passage
Figure 1. Europe and the Middle East, 1914: WWI Alliances
The map shows the alliance systems at the outbreak of World War I. Blue = Allied Powers (Triple Entente). Red/Orange = Central Powers. Gray = Neutral Nations. Dashed lines indicate the Western and Eastern Fronts.
Questions in This Drill
- Based on Figure 1, which of the following best describes the geographic situation of the Central Powers?
- Figure 1 shows Italy shaded blue as an Allied Power. A historian should note that this requires which qualification?
- The alliance system shown in Figure 1 is best understood as a consequence of which broader development in European history before 1914?
- The Ottoman Empire's position as a Central Power, shown in Figure 1, most directly affected which theater of the war?
- Which of the following developments after WWI most directly reshaped the alliance map shown in Figure 1?