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

Question 1

New nations that emerged in eastern Europe as a consequence of World War I included all except which of the following?

A)Czechoslovakia
B)Bulgaria
C)Yugoslavia

Answer 1

Bulgaria

Question 2

Why did the United States enter World War I on the British and French side?

A)Almost all Americans were of British descent.
B)Unrestricted submarine warfare attacks had turned U.S. opinion against Germany.
C)The United States wanted to take Germany's colonial territories in the Pacific.

Answer 2

Unrestricted submarine warfare attacks had turned U.S. opinion against Germany.

Question 3

The March 1917 revolution in Russia had what result?

A)It brought the Bolsheviks to power and the beginning of the Soviet Union.
B)It led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a new provisional government.
C)It brought immediate peace to Russia, which was no longer bound to participate in World War I.

Answer 3

It led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a new provisional government.

Question 4

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)Almost all women retained their jobs when the war was over because so many men had died in combat.
C)Women demanded equal pay for equal work.

Question 5

World War I resulted in which of the following?

A)Decreased government control of society
B)Increased government control of society
C)The abandonment of military conscription

Question 6

Which country joined Germany and Austria-Hungary after World War I began?

A)Italy
B)Serbia
C)The Ottoman Empire

Question 7

All of the following are correct about the Treaty of Versailles except which one?

A)It demanded that Germany accept guilt for causing World War I.
B)It dismembered the German Empire in Europe into numerous independent states.
C)The German army was limited to 100,000 men.

Question 8

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points contain which of the following principles?

A)National self-determination
B)Universal suffrage
C)An end to bonding campaigns against civilians

Question 9

In 1915, the British landed forces in Gallipoli to attempt to achieve which objective?

A)To open a sea route to Russia and eventually defeat the Ottomans
B)To retake Greece and open a new southern front against Austria
C)To force the Ottomans to switch sides in the war

Question 10

Before 1917, what was the status of the Bolshevik Party?

A)It was an influential socialist revolutionary party, one among many.
B)It was the leading party of the Russian reform movement.
C)It did not exist.

Question 11

During the war, what percentage of French men between the ages of 18-30 died?

A)About 10 percent
B)About 50 percent
C)About 25 percent

Question 12

General Ludendorff's military gamble was which of the following?

A)An attack on the well-entrenched 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

Question 13

Who are associated with the appeal of "Peace, Land, and Bread"?

A)Lenin and the Bolsheviks
B)Kerensky and the Mensheviks
C)Stalin and the Whites

Question 14

The November 1917 revolution in Russia had what result?

A)Established Kerensky as head of the provisional government
B)Forced Lenin to flee to Switzerland
C)Brought Lenin to power

Question 15

Unlike many others, how did Karl Marx believe that revolution in Russia might come about?

A)An uprising by the urban proletariat
B)Through the communal traditions of the peasant villages
C)Peacefully through the ballot box

Question 16

The nations of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy made up which bloc during World War I?

A)The Triple Entente
B)NATO
C)The Triple Alliance

Question 17

The nations of Russia, Great Britain, and France made up which bloc during World War I?

A)The Triple Entente
B)NATO
C)The Triple Alliance

Question 18

Which major power refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and thus did not join the League of Nations?

A)Britain
B)The United States
C)Japan

Question 19

Lenin believed that revolution would come to Russia by which of the following means?

A)If led by disciplined professional revolutionaries
B)Spontaneously through a proletariat rebellion
C)By a middle-class conversion to socialism

Question 20

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

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

Question 21

Each of these programs was part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal except which of the following?

A)The National Recovery Administration
B)The Peace Corps
C)Social Security

Question 22

Which German architects created modern architecture?

A)The Bauhaus School
B)The Van der Rohes
C)The Dadaists

Question 23

Who was the architect of the Triple Alliance?

A)William II
B)Cavour
C)Bismarck

Question 24

Which treaty outlawed war as an instrument of national policy?

A)Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
B)Kellogg-Briand Pact
C)Treaty of Locarno

Question 25

How is Alfred von Zimmerman's contribution to the United States' entry into the war best described?

A)He urged an American attack upon Canada, promising Canada would become a part of the United States.
B)He promised Mexico a return of her lost lands in the American Southwest if it attacked the United States.
C)He urged Vladimir Lenin to lead a revolt against Tsarist Russia and take back Alaska.

Question 26

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk had what result?

A)It required Germany to accept full responsibility for World War I.
B)It established the League of Nations.
C)It allowed Russia to exit the war at significant expense in territory and population.

Question 27

John Maynard Keynes held which position?

A)He advocated a laissez-faire economic policy.
B)He argued that governments should resort to deficit spending in times of depression.
C)He claimed that the government which governed least, governed best.

Question 28

The German mark became largely worthless as the result of which of the following?

A)The communist revolts in Germany in 1919
B)Runaway inflation in 1922-1923
C)The assassination of William II

Question 29

How was the German economy stabilized in the mid-1920s?

A)Massive German rearmament programs
B)Military victory against France in the Ruhr
C)The Dawes Plan, which reduced reparation payments

Question 30

Which painter best represented the Surrealist movement?

A)Paul Klee
B)Salvador Dali
C)Pablo Picasso

Question 31

Along with Germany, which Western nation was hit hardest by the Great Depression?

A)The United States
B)France
C)Great Britain

Question 32

Why was the postwar future of the states of eastern Europe complicated?

A)Increasing and contradictory claims by rival ethnic minorities
B)Social instability caused by a flood of former soldiers returning to work
C)A flight from the cities after the war and the flu epidemic

Question 33

Bismarck's policy could best be described as which of the following?

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"

Question 34

What was Bismarck's role in European diplomacy?

Question 35

The Great Depression resulted in part from which of the following?

A)A shortage of credit in the purchase of stocks
B)An international financial crisis caused by the New York stock market crash
C)A decrease in the use of oil and hydroelectricity

Question 36

Lenin's New Economic Policy had what result?

A)It established pure communism in Soviet Union.
B)It allowed private industry and commerce to operate at the lower levels of society.
C)It abandoned state ownership of banks and heavy industry.

Question 37

Why did Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination lead to war between Austria and Serbia?

Question 38

Full employment returned to the United States as the result of which of the following?

A)The First New Deal
B)The Second New Deal
C)Rearmament and World War II

Question 39

What was the Schlieffen Plan?

Question 40

Why did the Triple Entente form in 1907?

Question 41

Who participated in the Russian Civil War and on what sides?

Question 42

What was the important of the Dawes plan?

Question 43

What were the key points of the Treaty of Versailles?

Question 44

Why did the French insist on strict enforcement of German reparations?

Question 45

Why were so many new states created after World War I?

Question 46

What is a total war?

Question 47

How did blockades influence the course of World War I?

Question 48

Why did the Italians switch sides during the war?

Question 49

In 1908 and again in 1913, wars broke out in which of the following regions?

A)The British Isles
B)The Balkans
C)Along the Rhine River

Question 50

What new powers joined the war after its outbreak in 1914? Why?

Question 51

What were the key principles of the Fourteen Points?

Question 52

Why was Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo?

A)As part of a calculated move to go to way by Austria
B)As part of a terrorist plot hatched by radical Serbian nationalists
C)As part of a Russian effort to curb Austrian influence in Serbia

Question 53

Describe the March 1917 revolution.

Question 54

What was the importance of the Battle of the Marne?

Question 55

Why did the United States join the war in 1917?

Question 56

What role did the United States play in winning World War I?

Question 57

Why did the United States not join the League of Nations?

Question 58

Describe the October 1917 revolution.

Question 59

What was the significance of the Battle of the Somme?

Question 60

How did internal unrest influence Germany's negotiations for peace?

Question 61

What effect did the Second New Deal have on the depression?

Question 62

Why is it correct to say that Germany was defeated militarily?

Question 63

Why did Germany promise "full support" to Austria-Hungary?

A)The German government thought the Austrians would not actually need it.
B)The German government did not think Russia would intervene in Serbia.
C)The German government thought it owed Austria a major debt.

Question 64

How had the war affected the structure of many European economies?

Question 65

Why did World War I break out? What role did inflexible war plans play in the outbreak of war?

Question 66

Had Germany achieved its objectives by the end of 1915? Why or not?

Question 67

How did Ottoman and Austrian instability lead to conflict in the Balkans?

Question 68

To what extent is World War I a world war and to what extent was it simply a war between Europeans across the globe?

Question 69

What effect did the First New Deal have on the depression?

Question 70

How did the Great Depression begin?

Question 71

How are Dadaism and Surrealism similar?

Question 72

How did the Bolsheviks eventually seize complete power in Russia?

Question 73

Was World War I a total war? Why or why not?

Question 74

What was war communism?

Question 75

To what extent did the Russian civil war help the Bolsheviks consolidate power in Russia?

Question 76

What is the significance of the Bauhaus movement?

Question 77

Germany's Schlieffen Plan entailed which of the following maneuvers?

A)An overwhelming and immediate assault upon Russia
B)A rapid, overwhelming invasion of France then an attack on Russia
C)A war of attrition against Britain and France

Question 78

Why do many scholars believe that the war by 1916 had transformed into a war of attrition? Support your argument with examples.

Question 79

Describe the state of the U.S. economy after World War I.

Question 80

To what extent did the Treaty of Versailles adhere to the Fourteen Points? To what extent did it flatly contradict them?