Chapter 33: Traditions & Encounters AP – Flashcards
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The spark for World War I was provided when Gavrilo Princip Assassinated
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Francis Ferdinand
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The first total war in world history was
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World War I (The Great War)
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Approximately how many combatants died in World War I?
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15 million
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The term for the idea that people with the same ethnic origins, language, and political ideals had the right to form sovereign states was
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self-determination
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the nationalistic aspirations of subject minorities was most threatening to a state such as?
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Austria-Hungary
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Slavic cultural unity was actively promoted by
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Russia
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In 1914, England's share of the world's industrial output stood at
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14% roughly the same as Germany's
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Which of the following was not an important area of competition and conflict between England and Germany in the years leading up to World War I?
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The naval race
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The members of the Triple Alliance were
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
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The French were deeply suspicious of German expansion because of
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The inability of the French to forget their humiliationg defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
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The military plan that called for an invasion of France through Belgium was called
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The Schlieffen plan
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The soldiers who marched off in 1914 to fight in World War I were mostly
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Wildly enthusiastic
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The German offensive of 1914 was halted at
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The Marine River
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The western front in World War I was
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A bloody stalemate
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The massive German assault on the western front in 1916 was
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Caporetto
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Which of the following does NOT characterize the experience of trench warfare?
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Cavalry charges
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The Somme was
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An English assault in 1916 that gained a few thousand yards.
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In World War I, the Eastern front was
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Ultimately a spectacular German success
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Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the new total war of World War I?
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The extension of laissez-faire capitalism to its greatest freedom
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What effect did World War I have on the status of women?
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Women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war
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The World War I poet who considered Horace's line that it is "sweet and fitting to die for one's country," to be an "old Lie" was
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Wilfred Owen
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Which one of the following is NOT an explanation of the expansion of World War I to Asia, Africa, and the Pacific?
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Other nations entered the war for reasons that had nothing to do with the murder of Francis Ferdinand
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The Twenty-One Demands were issued
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By Japan to China
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The Japanese fought in World War I due to their
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Desire to acquire German colonies in Asia
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Which of the following was a German African colony conquered by the Allies in the Great War?
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Togoland
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The March Revolution of 1917
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Swept Lenin into power in Russia an led to the creation of the Soviet Union
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The last tsar of Russia was
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Nicholas II
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The main reason for the failure of the provisional government in Russia in 1917 was
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Its inability to satisfy popular demands for an end to the war
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Ended Russia's involvement in the Great War
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The key factor in the United States' decision to enter World War I was
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Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare
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One of the major problems of the Paris peace negotiations that led to the Treaty of Versailles was
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Russia's absence from the negotiations
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Woodrow Wilson agreed i many harsh stipulations to the Treaty of Versatilles
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In return for the creation of the League of Nations
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In the wake of World War I, Mustafa Kemal became president of
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Turkey
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The mandate system
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Angered the Arab world because it was little more than a glorified form of imperialism
