Deck 4: War and Revolution World War I and Its Aftermath

Question 1

Identify the following terms:
battle of Verdun

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

Identify the following terms:
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

Identify the following terms:
First Battle of the Marne

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Identify the following terms:
the February and October Revolutions of 1917

Question 5

Identify the following terms:
Tsar Nicholas II

Question 6

Identify the following terms:
DORA

Question 7

Identify the following terms:
Lusitania

Question 8

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Serbia and the Balkan Wars

Question 9

Identify the following terms:
Georges Clemenceau

Question 10

Identify the following terms:
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

Question 11

Identify the following terms:
Erich von Ludendorff

Question 12

Identify the following terms:
Triple Alliance and Triple Entente

Question 13

Identify the following terms:
Lawrence of Arabia

Question 14

Identify the following terms:
battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes

Question 15

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Ottoman Empire

Question 16

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Alfred von Zimmerman and Mexico

Question 17

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Sarajevo and the Black Hand

Question 18

Identify the following terms:
"no man's land"

Question 19

Identify the following terms:
the Schlieffen plan and neutral Belgium

Question 20

Identify the following terms:
Trench Warfare

Question 21

Identify the following terms:
"normalcy"

Question 22

Identify the following terms:
the Treaty of Locarno

Question 23

Identify the following terms:
Treaty of Versailles

Question 24

Identify the following terms:
War Guilt Clause and Reparations

Question 25

Identify the following terms:
the Weimar Republic

Question 26

Identify the following terms:
the Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 27

Identify the following terms:
Second Battle of the Marne

Question 28

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World Disarmament Conference

Question 29

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Red Menace

Question 30

Identify the following terms:
November 11, 1918

Question 31

Identify the following terms:
Alexander Kerensky

Question 32

Identify the following terms:
Rhineland and the Ruhr Valley

Question 33

Identify the following terms:
the Cheka

Question 34

Identify the following terms:
"dictated peace"

Question 35

Identify the following terms:
"Peace, Land, and Bread"

Question 36

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David Lloyd George

Question 37

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Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points"

Question 38

Identify the following terms:
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Question 39

Identify the following terms:
Yugoslavia

Question 40

Identify the following terms:
Leon Trotsky

Question 41

Bismarck's policy could best be described as

A) cautious with special attention to prevent rival powers from conspiring against Berlin.
B) aggressive and dismissive of rival European powers.
C) dedicated to providing Germany with its rightful "place in the sun".
D) expansionistic in his efforts to defeat the crumbling Ottoman Empire.
E) rascist and anti-semitic in his treatment of Jewish populations in Eastern Europe.

Question 42

The architect of the Triple Alliance was

A) William II.
B) Cavour.
C) Bismarck.
D) Nicholas II.
E) Francis Ferdinand.

Question 43

Identify the following terms:
"socialist industrialization" and the five-year plans

Question 44

The nation whose nineteenth century unification upset the balance of power in Europe was

A) Italy.
B) France.
C) the United Kingdom.
D) Austria-Hungary.
E) Germany.

Question 45

The nations of Russia, Great Britain, and France made up

A) the Triple Entente.
B) NATO.
C) the Triple Alliance.
D) the Big Three.
E) the Have Not Powers.

Question 46

Identify the following terms:
Salvadore Dali and surrealism

Question 47

Identify the following terms:
"war communism"

Question 48

The nations of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy made up

A) the Triple Entente.
B) NATO.
C) the Triple Alliance.
D) the Big Three.
E) the Have Powers.

Question 49

Identify the following terms:
Joseph Djugashvili/Stalin

Question 50

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John Maynard Keynes

Question 51

Identify the following terms:
the Great Depression and the Credit-Anstalt bank

Question 52

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Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal

Question 53

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Bauhaus school, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier

Question 54

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James Joyce's Ulysses and the "stream of consciousness"

Question 55

Identify the following terms:
avant-garde art

Question 56

Identify the following terms:
Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis

Question 57

Identify the following terms:
Dada and Marcel Duchamp

Question 58

Identify the following terms:
the New Economic Policy

Question 59

Identify the following terms:
Arnold Schoenberg, atonal music and the twelve-tone system

Question 60

Identify the following terms:
Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian

Question 61

700,000 men lost their lives in a few months at

A) Gallipoli.
B) the Somme.
C) the Marne.
D) Verdun.
E) Tannenberg.

Question 62

During the war, the percentage of French men between the ages of 18-30 that died was approximately

A) 10 percent.
B) 50 percent.
C) 25 percent.
D) 15 percent.
E) 4 percent.

Question 63

In 1908 and again in 1913, wars broke out in

A) the British Isles.
B) the Middle East.
C) along the Rhine River.
D) the Balkans.
E) in western Russia.

Question 64

Which of the following statements about the role of women in World War I is incorrect ?

A) Women were employed in jobs previously been held by men.
B) Women formed 38 percent of the workers in the Krupp armaments factory.
C) Women demanded equal pay for equal work.
D) Many women gained the right to vote as a consequence of their war-time labors.
E) Almost all women retained their jobs when the war was over because so many men had died in combat.

Question 65

The nation that promised "full support" to Austria-Hungary was

A) Germany.
B) Russia.
C) Serbia.
D) Italy.
E) the Ottoman Empire.

Question 66

At the beginning, most observers and participants assumed that World War I would

A) be over in a few weeks.
B) last for several years.
C) end in a draw.
D) lead to the Russian Revolution.
E) destroy Western Civilization.

Question 67

The military symbol of World War I was the

A) concentration camp.
B) trench.
C) atomic bomb.
D) Black Death.
E) rapid cavalry advance.

Question 68

In the west, the Germans were defeated in September, 1914, at

A) the Tannenberg.
B) the Masurian Lakes.
C) Gallipoli.
D) the First Battle of the Marne.
E) Verdun.

Question 69

World War I resulted in

A) increased decentralization of society.
B) increased centralization of society.
C) the abandonment of military conscription.
D) an increase in laissez-faire.
E) the restriction of women to the home and hearth.

Question 70

In 1915, the British landed forces at

A) Gallipoli.
B) Athens.
C) Alexandria.
D) Sarajevo.
E) Constantinople.

Question 71

Woodrow Wilson's peace goals included all of the following except

A) punishment of Germany for starting the war.
B) open covenants of peace instead of secret diplomacy.
C) reduction of national armaments to create domestic safety.
D) self-determination.
E) a general association of nation to guarantee territorial integrity.

Question 72

Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated on June 28, 1914, in the city of

A) Budapest.
B) Sarajevo.
C) Trieste.
D) Vienna.
E) Prague.

Question 73

The nation that joined Germany and Austria-Hungary after World War I began was

A) Italy.
B) Serbia.
C) the Ottoman Empire.
D) the Arab Emirates.
E) Japan.

Question 74

The United States entered World War I because of

A) the fact that almost all Americans were of British descent.
B) unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany.
C) the sinking of the Titanic .
D) the British naval blockade.
E) loyalty to France in gratitude for her aid during the American Revolution.

Question 75

Germany's Schlieffen Plan envisioned

A) an overwhelming and immediate assault upon Russia.
B) a rapid invasion of France.
C) a holding action on the River Rhine.
D) an invasion of Great Britain through Ireland.
E) an attack on Serbia in the Balkans.

Question 76

General Ludendorff's military gamble was

A) an attack on the British forces at Gallipoli.
B) an offensive in the west to break the military stalemate.
C) to support Lenin in hopes of knocking Russia out of the war.
D) to back Austria-Hungary in the war against Serbia.
E) replace William II with General Hindenburg.

Question 77

In 1914, the nation that Germany invaded France through was

A) the Netherlands.
B) Belgium.
C) Austria.
D) Poland.
E) Denmark.

Question 78

All of the following might be found in "no man's land" except

A) barbed wire.
B) rats.
C) machine guns.
D) poison gas.
E) airplanes.

Question 79

Alfred von Zimmerman

A) urged an American attack upon Canada, promising Canada would become a part of the United States.
B) promised Mexico a return of her lost lands in the American Southwest if it attacked the United States.
C) urged Vladimir Lenin to lead a revolt against Tsarist Russia.
D) was a last minute attempt in July 1914 to avert war.
E) was sent to Lawrence of Arabia, warning him of the consequences if he and the Arabs attacked the Ottoman Empire.

Question 80

DORA was

A) the nickname for the Gallipoli campaign.
B) a British law which allowed newspapers to be censored and dissenters arrested.
C) the codeword which set off the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
D) the name of a passenger ship sunk by German submarines.
E) the wife of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and who was assassinated at Sarajevo in 1914.