Chapter 14 History Test – Flashcards
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Germany, Austria
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Central Powers
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Russia, France, Britain
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Allied Powers
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
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Triple Alliance
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Russia, France, Britain
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Triple Entante
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The alliances said they had to fight for each other in war
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How did the network of European alliances cause WWI to develop?
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When the Germans violated Belgian neutrality to reach France
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What act caused Britain to declare war?
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Trenches were used
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Why did a stalemate develop on the Western Front?
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Modern weapons caused higher causualities
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How did technology make WWI different from earlier wars?
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Western Front/Eastern Front
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What were the two battlefronts in WWI called?
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Long causality lists and food shortages
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What caused the morale of troops and civilians to plunge?
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Germany's unrestricted U-boat warfare and Wilson's 14 Points
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What are two factors that caused the US to enter the war?
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Because men were drafted and had to leave their jobs
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Why did women take on new jobs during the war?
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The Communist Party and radical revolution
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What brought about the tsar's abdication and the end of monarchy in Russia?
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He thought it could bring change
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Why did Lenin want revolution?
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French eoconomist
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Frederic Passy
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Glorification of the military
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Militarism
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The "powder keg of Europe"
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Balkans
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Assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Sophie in Sarajevo
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Gavrilo Princep
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Final set of demands
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Ultimatum
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Prepare for war
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Mobilize
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Policy of supporting neither side in a war
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Neutrality
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Made the Schlieffen Plan
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General Alfred von Schlieffen
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Designed to avoid the possiblity of a two-front war for Germany; eventually failed
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Schlieffen Plan
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A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other
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Stalemate
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Rapid-fire machine gun, long-range artillery gun, poison gas, gasoline-powered engine, tanks, airplanes, submarines, zeppelins
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New weapons in WWI
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Large gas-filled balloons used by Germany to bomb the English coast
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Zeppelins
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Type of fighter pilot
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Flying aces
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German submarines that did great damage to the Allies
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U-boats
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Groups of merchant ships protected by warships to avoid U-boats
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Convoys
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A vital strait connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranian
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Dardanelles
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Turkish troops trapped the Allies on a peninsula and the Allies eventually withdrew from the Dardanelles
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Battle of Gallipoli
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Sent by the British government to support the Arab revolt
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T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
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The channeling of a nation's entire resources into the war effort
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Total War
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The draft
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Conscription
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Military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies
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Contraband
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British liner that was sunk by German U-boats off the coast of Ireland and 1,200 passengers were killed
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The sinking of the Lusitania
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Spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause
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Propoganda
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Horrible acts committed against innocent people
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Atrocities
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Signed by Lenin with Germany that ended Russian participation in WWI
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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German foreign minister
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Arthur Zimmermann
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Wilson's terms for resolving WWI and future wars that called for freedom of the seas, free trade, reductions of arms, and an end to secret treaties
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Fourteen Points
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The right of people to choose their own form of government
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Self-determination
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Agreement to end fighting
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Armstice
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Spread of a disease over a large area
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Pandemic
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Payments for war damage
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Reparations
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British Prime minister who had promised to build an amazing post-war Britain
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David Lloyd George
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French leader whose goal was to weaken Germany so it could never again threaten France
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Georges Clemenceau
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Italian prime minister who insisted that the Allies honor their secret agreement to give former Austro-Hungarian lands to Italy
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Vittioro Orlando
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A system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all
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Collective security
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Territories administered by Western powers
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Mandates
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A weak and ineffective leader and general who blocked attempts to limit his authority; eventually abdicated
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Nicholas II
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Illiterate peasant and self-proclaimed "holy man" who was basically left to rule in his absence
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Gregory Rasputin
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A provisional government
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After the Tsar Nicholas abdicated, what kind of government did Duma politicians set up?
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Councils of workers and soldiers
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Soviets
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Radical socialists led by Lenin Name means "Member of the majority" (in reality, were the minority)
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Bolseviks
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Leader of the Bolseviks
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V.I. Lenin
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Marxist revolutionary who helped lead the revolution
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Leon Trotsky
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Communists
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Reds
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Tsarist imperial officers
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Whites
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Secret police
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Cheka
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Communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty
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Commissars
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Elected legislature created by the Soviet Union
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Supreme Soviet
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Allowed some capitalist ventures
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New Economic Policy (NEP)
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A shrewd political operator and behind-the-scenes organizer
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Stalin
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To protect Belgium
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Why did the British declare war on Germany in 1914?
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... France
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The Schlieffen Plan was developed as a plan of attack against...
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They were protesting Austrian rule over Bosnia
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Why did Serbian nationalists plot the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary?
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Alsace and Lorraine
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The French hoped to recover the border provinces of __________, lost in the Franco-Prussian War.
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Russia
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Of the great powers, which nation was the least industrialized?
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...the potato crop failed.
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Germans experienced "the turnip winter" of 1916 and 1917 because...
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Siegfried Sassoon
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By 1917, war morale was collapsing, as evident in the writings of which British poet and soldier?
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The Central Powers did not see the armistice as a full surrender.
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Why were the Central Powers stunned by the Allies' demand for reparations?
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They hoped peace would bring an end to imperial rule.
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Why did colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific feel hopeful about the Paris Peace Conference?
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Negotiate with one another to settle disputes
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With the League of Nations in place, what were member nations more likely to do?
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Rasputin helped her son who suffered from hemophilia.
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Why did Tsarina Alexandra have great faith in the advice of Gregory Rasputin?
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Food and fuel shortages as a result of the war
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What conditions helped provoke the March Revolution?
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His brother was arrested and hanged for plotting to kill the tsar.
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What provoked Lenin to hate the tsarist government?
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Lenin's death
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What event set off a power struggle between Communist leaders Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin?
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Russia was not allowed to take part.
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What rule was set down at the Paris Peace Conference?
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...it involved countries and colonies in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and North America.
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World War I is said to be a global conflict because...
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Christian
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The persecuted Armenians were of what religion?
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Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
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Which prominent statesman was very much against the US joining the League of Nations?
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..."Peace, Land, and Bread."
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Lenin and the Bolsheviks promised the people...
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The Communists wanted to prevent them from becoming a rallying symbol for counterrevolutionaries.
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Why did the Communists execute the former czar, czarina, and their five children?
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...they felt ties of culture and language to European countries.
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Many Americans felt personally involved with the war between the Allies and the Central Powers because...
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They hoped the Whites would overthrow the communists and help fight Germany.
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Why did the Allies intervene in the civil war in Russia?
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It ended Germany's hope for a quick victory on the Western Front.
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What was the result of the battle along France's Marne river?
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Italy and Britain
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Which pair of countries remained uncommitted at the beginning of World War I?
