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Lesson 1
Learning Event 2

Practice Exercise

Instructions The following items will test your understanding of the material covered in this lesson. There is only one correct answer for each item. When you have completed the exercise, check your answers with the answer key that follows. If you answer any item incorrectly, review that part of the lesson which contains the portion involved.
1. In 1914, infantry attacks failed and trench warfare became the reality of combat. The most obvious means of creating a penetration was with massed artillery fire. Various problems existed. Which of the following was a problem that existed in 1914?

 A. Everyone had expected a short war. Thus, few armies had sufficient supplies of ammunition and heavy artillery.
B. Most gunners had little experience in precision indirect fire.
C. Coordinating infantry and artillery in an attack.
D. All of the above.
2. Technological innovations developed during World War I. Which of the following did not develop during this time?

A. Nuclear warfare.
B. Firepower mobility - light automatic rifles, grenades, rifle grenade launchers, and tanks.
C. Gas warfare.
D. Military aviation.
3. During World War I, the evolution of German defensive doctrine was a system of flexible defense-in-depth. The tactics of the German defensive system emphasized three principles. What were they?

A. Flexibility, centralized control, and counterattack.
B. Rigidity, centralized control, and counterattack.
C. Flexibility, decentralized control, and counterattack.
D. Rigidity, decentralized control, and counterattack.
4. Which army division, in 1918, was organized into a "square" division structure?

A. United States.
B. German.
C. French.
D. British.