APWH Chapter 23 – Flashcards
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The radical Serbian group that assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand was the
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Black Hand
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On June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated in the Bosnian city
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Sarajevo
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Which of the following nations were created by the 1919 Paris Peace Conference?
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Czechoslovakia and Poland
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The largest European army using conscription just prior to the outbreak of war was:
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Russia
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As a result of the Great Depression,
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Marxism and fascism gained in popularity.
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The Treaty of Locarno
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guaranteed the new German borders with Belgium and France in the west.
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Changes in middle-class attitudes during the 1920s included
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the popularity of short skirts, short hair, and the use of previously risqué cosmetics.
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The MAIN reason for the United States' entry into World War I was:
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German refusal to refrain from unrestricted submarine warfare.
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Leon Trotsky
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led the Left group in the Politburo after Lenin's death.
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The first serious threat to the Red Army during the Russian Civil War came from
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White army factions in Siberia.
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The treaty negotiated by the US, Britain, and France to conclude World War I with Germany was the Treaty of
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Versailles
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The crisis stemming from German non-payment of its 1922 reparations installment
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led to severe hyperinflation, as Germany's "passive resistance" made the mark worthless.
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War on the Western front was marked by
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little movement by troops bogged down in trenches.
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The Battle of the Somme
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killed more than 21,000 British soldiers in a single day.
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In what way was Japan involved in World War I?
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On the side of the Triple Entente to take control of German territories in Asia.
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The New Deal was the attempt by the Roosevelt administration to
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have the federal government participate more actively in the economy.
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In early November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks
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successfully took power from the Provisional Government in a coup.
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The Popular Front in France
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initiated a program of workers' rights, but its policies failed to end the Depression.
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The British officer T. E. Lawrence focused his campaigns on inciting colonial rebellion by
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Arabs against Ottomans.
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By 1917, the progress of World War I had
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forced the Germans into waging unrestricted submarine warfare against Great Britain.
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In a failed effort to open a Balkan front, in 1915 the British launched an attack on
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Gallipoli
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The Weimar Republic
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faced great economic challenges such as runaway inflation and later the Great Depression.
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Using the Schlieffen Plan,
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Germany invaded France by way of Belgium.
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The final German offensive was stopped on July 18, 1918 at the
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Second Battle of the Marne
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The British prime minister who had won a decisive electoral victory on a platform committed to making the Germans pay for the war was
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David Lloyd George
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Which of the following is an accurate description of Middle Eastern mandates instituted after World War I?
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Britain took control of Iraq and Palestine
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The Dawes Plan was all of the following except it
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permanently solved all of Germany's economic problems.
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Among the major factors leading to the outbreak of war in mid-1914 was
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Nationalism and internal dissent
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Among the major illusions held by civilians and military leaders early in World War I was
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the belief of most military leaders that the use of still larger numbers of troops would allow them to get their troops beyond the enemy trenches and gain a quick victory.
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The most visible social impact of total war was
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incorporation of women into professional positions.
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The soviets were
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councils of workers' and soldiers' deputies
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Which of the following was NOT a significant reason for Russia's lack of preparedness for war in 1914?
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Lack of consensus in the voting parties of the Parliament.
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In 1918, Lenin signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in which Russia gave up all of the following except
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Muscovy
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The Provisional Government that took power after the tsar abdicated was headed by
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Alexander Kerensky.
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As a young revolutionary in Imperial Russia, Lenin affiliated with which political party?
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Social Democrats
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Lenin's new secret police were known as the
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Cheka
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As part of the Triple Alliance, what role did Italy play in the outset of World War I?
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They attacked Austria in 1915
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Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne as a result of strikes that broke out
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after working-class women staged a massive food march in Petrograd.
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After Lenin's death,
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the Politburo split into a Left group, wishing to pursue of rapid industrialization and World revolution, and a Right group, desiring to construct a socialist state in Russia.
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England's engagement in Africa started with
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seizing the German colony of Togoland.
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All of the following statements are correct about the Great Depression except
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economic depressions were a new phenomena in the European experience.
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Which of the following reflected new artistic trends of the 1920s?
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James Joyce's Ulysses.
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The new economic views of John Maynard Keynes held that
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government public works spending would cut unemployment and revive an economy.
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Under Lenin's New Economic Policy,
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individuals were permitted to own small retail stores and peasants to sell their produce.
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The general attitude toward the prospect of a Europe-wide war among the people of Europe in the summer of 1914 was one of
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naively romantic enthusiasm for the adventure of war.
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The British government
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sharply limited free speech when it implemented the Defense of the Realm Act.
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