NS-2 Naval History Chapter 6: World War One

What happened that finally caused President Wilson to declare war on Germany on April 6, 1917?

At the beginning of World War I, which was not a mission of the British Grand Fleet, based at Scapa Flow.

What great disadvantage did Britain have at the start of World War I?

What major geographical disadvantage did Germany have in WWI, affecting the navy?

How many battleships made up the English Channel Fleet in 1914?

Cite two geographic advantages the Central Powers possessed in WWI

What new type of 110’ wooden patrol vessel began to be used vs submarines in World War I, primarily using depth charges?

What weapon was used in tremendously large numbers to prevent egress of German u-boats into the North Atlantic?        

Where did the British suffer great defeat in a failed amphibious assault in 1915?

Whose mission was to keep the English channel safe for transport of British troops and supplies to France

What British ally did the German fleet fear, abandoning her Pacific bases in 1914?

What German political leader followed Mahanian principles in rebuilding the German Navy prior to WWI?

When Germany surrender to the allies during WWI?

German U-boats sank all but which of these 3 vessels, nearly causing the US to go to war with Germany in 1915-1916?

Which of the following was NOT one of the four countries that initially made up the Triple Entente during World War I?

Where was the German East Asia Squadron annihilated by the British Navy in December 1914?

What were the two missions of the German High Seas Fleet in WWI? (Select one)  

Who was the First Lord of the Admiralty (SecNav) that endorsed the failed Gallipoli landings?

What intelligence coup in March 1917 caused all remaining US congressional support for Germany to cease?  

 What brought the Germans to their knees because of famine and shortages of war materiel in WWI?

Name the only capital ship lost by the US Navy during World War 1

What ASW tactic uses three sonars in contact from different target aspects to locate a submarine?

What tactic caused allied shipping losses from U-boat attacks to decline after May 1917?

What sea became the major area for naval hostilities in Europe during the Great War?

Which of the following was NOT one of the three countries that initially made up the Central Powers during World War I?

What were the designations of the two British home fleets in 1914?

What was the US Congress’s response to the Battle of Jutland (What did we do)?

Roughly how many total mines made up the North Sea mine barrage?

What were the U.S. Navy's major missions during World War I?                        

Which was NOT one of the three conditions of the Sussex Pledge, made by Germany in 1916.

Triangulation is a tactic that was first employed in World War One using what sensor?   

Which two nations were the principle combatants at sea when WWI commenced?

Europe went to war on 28 July 1914 when who declared war on who? 

Though they lost more men (6,000+) & more ships (14), who "won" the Battle of Jutland by driving the enemy from the sea?

What did the German general staff decide to do in January 1917 when they concluded they were losing the war?

What was the objective of the German submarine fleets attacks on merchant shipping?

The Naval Expansion Act of 1916 authorized how many total US Navy vessels to be built in three years? 

What was the primary ASW and convoy-protection ship? (AKA the Tincan).  

Name the SecNav from North Carolina who banned alcohol on Navy ships, leaving coffee as the strongest drink aboard.

What strategic chokepoint was the objective of the Gallipoli campaign?

When war broke out in 1914, where was the German East Asiatic squadron based?

Which of the following was NOT a possible cause of World War One?

Where did the last classic naval battle between two large fleets (250+ ships) occur, on 31 May 1916?

The Zimmermann telegram was an effort by Germany to bring what country against the United States?

Indiv. rights, Antitrust, Banking reform, Resource conservation, nonintervention are hallmarks of what in the Taft admin

How many US Navy ships were lost in WWI?

How many combined battleships and cruisers made up the British Grand Fleet in 1914?

What did Kaiser Wilhelm II do in the face of naval mutiny and near revolution?

What was the name of the US Naval officer who orchestrated the convoy system that saved the British from surrender?     

In what month and year did the US enter World War One?

Who was in command of the German Pacific fleet when World War 1 broke out?