Question 1

After forcing Bismarck's resignation, what did Wilhelm II refuse to do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Honor any of Bismarck's alliances 
B)  Continue funding the expansion of the German navy 
C)  Continue conflict with France, instead offering to give back some land 
D)  Renew the nonaggression pact with Russia 
A)  Honor any of Bismarck's alliances 
B)  Continue funding the expansion of the German navy 
C)  Continue conflict with France, instead offering to give back some land 
D)  Renew the nonaggression pact with Russia

Question 2

Why did Bulgaria join the Central Powers?

Accepted Answer

A)  It had a pact with the Ottomans. 
B)  It owed Germany money. 
C)  There were old tensions between it and Serbia. 
D)  It was worried about Russian aggression. 
A)  It had a pact with the Ottomans. 
B)  It owed Germany money. 
C)  There were old tensions between it and Serbia. 
D)  It was worried about Russian aggression.

Question 3

Which of the following certainly can be regarded to have weakened Russia's provisional government?

Accepted Answer

A)  The announcement that Russia was quitting the war 
B)  Government confiscation of large landholdings 
C)  The dissolution of the Duma 
D)  The requirement that it share power with the Petrograd Soviet 
A)  The announcement that Russia was quitting the war 
B)  Government confiscation of large landholdings 
C)  The dissolution of the Duma 
D)  The requirement that it share power with the Petrograd Soviet

Question 4

Where is the Ruhr Valley? Why did France and Belgium occupy this region when Germany refused to make its second reparations payment?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
The Ruhr V

Question 5

What was the status of organized Christianity in Europe in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Prior to t

Question 6

What can be regarded as Russia's single greatest problem in World War I?

Accepted Answer

A)  Inefficient, outdated weapons 
B)  Weak overall leadership 
C)  A lack of nationalist support 
D)  A shortage of ordinary soldiers 
A)  Inefficient, outdated weapons 
B)  Weak overall leadership 
C)  A lack of nationalist support 
D)  A shortage of ordinary soldiers

Question 7

Which of the following was a major reason British leaders favored a less harsh peace with Germany after World War I?

Accepted Answer

A)  The royal families of the two nations had several connections by marriage. 
B)  Prior to the war, Germany had been Britain's second-largest export market. 
C)  Britain hoped to invest in Germany's industrial Ruhr district. 
D)  Britain feared France would dominate the European continent without a strong Germany. 
A)  The royal families of the two nations had several connections by marriage. 
B)  Prior to the war, Germany had been Britain's second-largest export market. 
C)  Britain hoped to invest in Germany's industrial Ruhr district. 
D)  Britain feared France would dominate the European continent without a strong Germany.

Question 8

What happened to the German emperor in November 1918?

Accepted Answer

A)  He was captured by American soldiers. 
B)  He abdicated and fled to Holland. 
C)  He was arrested and tried for war crimes. 
D)  He was assassinated by a German communist. 
A)  He was captured by American soldiers. 
B)  He abdicated and fled to Holland. 
C)  He was arrested and tried for war crimes. 
D)  He was assassinated by a German communist.

Question 9

What self-governing states were created in the Treaty of Versailles, and what lands were parceled out to the victors as colonies?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Several in

Question 10

What did the Auxiliary Service Law of December 1916 declare?

Accepted Answer

A)  All American males between ages eighteen and forty-five were subject to conscription. 
B)  All German men between ages seventeen and sixty had to work only at jobs connected to the war effort. 
C)  All German women were declared subject to conscription for noncombat roles in the military. 
D)  Irish subjects of the British crown were drafted for service in British arms factories. 
A)  All American males between ages eighteen and forty-five were subject to conscription. 
B)  All German men between ages seventeen and sixty had to work only at jobs connected to the war effort. 
C)  All German women were declared subject to conscription for noncombat roles in the military. 
D)  Irish subjects of the British crown were drafted for service in British arms factories.

Question 11

According to Map 28.4, "Territorial Changes in Europe After World War I," which of the following is true regarding the demilitarized zone on the border of Germany and France?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was intended to serve as a buffer zone between Germany and the Balkans. 
B)  It was intended to protect French neutrality should another war break out in Europe. 
C)  Its location was in the same region where Germany launched the opening phase of the Schlieffen plan. 
D)  Its location was in an area that robbed Germany of access to some of its more important agricultural lands. 
A)  It was intended to serve as a buffer zone between Germany and the Balkans. 
B)  It was intended to protect French neutrality should another war break out in Europe. 
C)  Its location was in the same region where Germany launched the opening phase of the Schlieffen plan. 
D)  Its location was in an area that robbed Germany of access to some of its more important agricultural lands.

Question 12

Use the following to answer questions :
-trench warfare

Accepted Answer

A) The glorification of the military as the supreme ideal of the state with all other interests subordinate to it. 
B) The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War. 
C) Fighting behind rows of ditches, mines, and barbed wire; used in World War I with a staggering cost in lives and minimal gains in territory. 
D) Practiced by countries fighting in World War I, a war in which the government plans and controls all aspects of economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort. 
E) The first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which unplanned uprisings led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a transitional democratic government that was then overthrown in November by Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
F)A counter-government to the 1917 Russian provisional government, this organization was a huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two to three thousand workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals.
G)The "majority group"; this was Lenin's camp of the Russian party of Marxist socialism.
H)The application of the total-war concept to a civil conflict; the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.
I)A permanent international organization established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars.
J)The 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I; it declared Germany responsible for the war, limited Germany's army to one hundred thousand men, and forced Germany to pay huge reparations.
K)The product of the 1924 World War I reparations commission, accepted by Germany, France, and Britain, that reduced Germany's yearly reparations, made payment dependent on German economic prosperity, and granted Germany large loans from the United States to promote recovery.
L)Adolf Hitler's autobiography, published in 1925, which also contains Hitler's political ideology.
M)The name given to a highly diverse and even contradictory philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence and the search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty.
N)Freudian terms for the primitive, irrational unconscious; the rationalizing conscious that mediates what a person can do; and the ingrained moral values that specify what a person should do.
O)A variety of cultural movements at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth that rebelled against traditional forms and conventions of the past.
P)The principle that buildings, like industrial products, should serve the purpose for which they were made as well as possible. 
A) The glorification of the military as the supreme ideal of the state with all other interests subordinate to it. 
B) The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War. 
C) Fighting behind rows of ditches, mines, and barbed wire; used in World War I with a staggering cost in lives and minimal gains in territory. 
D) Practiced by countries fighting in World War I, a war in which the government plans and controls all aspects of economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort. 
E) The first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which unplanned uprisings led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a transitional democratic government that was then overthrown in November by Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
F)A counter-government to the 1917 Russian provisional government, this organization was a huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two to three thousand workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals.
G)The "majority group"; this was Lenin's camp of the Russian party of Marxist socialism.
H)The application of the total-war concept to a civil conflict; the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.
I)A permanent international organization established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars.
J)The 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I; it declared Germany responsible for the war, limited Germany's army to one hundred thousand men, and forced Germany to pay huge reparations.
K)The product of the 1924 World War I reparations commission, accepted by Germany, France, and Britain, that reduced Germany's yearly reparations, made payment dependent on German economic prosperity, and granted Germany large loans from the United States to promote recovery.
L)Adolf Hitler's autobiography, published in 1925, which also contains Hitler's political ideology.
M)The name given to a highly diverse and even contradictory philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence and the search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty.
N)Freudian terms for the primitive, irrational unconscious; the rationalizing conscious that mediates what a person can do; and the ingrained moral values that specify what a person should do.
O)A variety of cultural movements at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth that rebelled against traditional forms and conventions of the past.
P)The principle that buildings, like industrial products, should serve the purpose for which they were made as well as possible.

Question 13

Which of the following contributed in large part to the escalation of tension between Britain and Germany after 1900?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Anglo-Russian Agreement of 1907 
B)  Germany's decision to dramatically expand its naval forces 
C)  Increasing British investment in the German economy 
D)  Britain's decision to aid Japan in the Russo-Japanese War 
A)  The Anglo-Russian Agreement of 1907 
B)  Germany's decision to dramatically expand its naval forces 
C)  Increasing British investment in the German economy 
D)  Britain's decision to aid Japan in the Russo-Japanese War

Question 14

When the provisional government came to power in Russia in March 1917, what problems did it face? How did the Bolsheviks capitalize on these difficulties?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
When the p

Question 15

Use the following to answer questions :
-Treaty of Versailles

Accepted Answer

A) The glorification of the military as the supreme ideal of the state with all other interests subordinate to it. 
B) The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War. 
C) Fighting behind rows of ditches, mines, and barbed wire; used in World War I with a staggering cost in lives and minimal gains in territory. 
D) Practiced by countries fighting in World War I, a war in which the government plans and controls all aspects of economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort. 
E) The first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which unplanned uprisings led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a transitional democratic government that was then overthrown in November by Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
F)A counter-government to the 1917 Russian provisional government, this organization was a huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two to three thousand workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals.
G)The "majority group"; this was Lenin's camp of the Russian party of Marxist socialism.
H)The application of the total-war concept to a civil conflict; the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.
I)A permanent international organization established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars.
J)The 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I; it declared Germany responsible for the war, limited Germany's army to one hundred thousand men, and forced Germany to pay huge reparations.
K)The product of the 1924 World War I reparations commission, accepted by Germany, France, and Britain, that reduced Germany's yearly reparations, made payment dependent on German economic prosperity, and granted Germany large loans from the United States to promote recovery.
L)Adolf Hitler's autobiography, published in 1925, which also contains Hitler's political ideology.
M)The name given to a highly diverse and even contradictory philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence and the search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty.
N)Freudian terms for the primitive, irrational unconscious; the rationalizing conscious that mediates what a person can do; and the ingrained moral values that specify what a person should do.
O)A variety of cultural movements at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth that rebelled against traditional forms and conventions of the past.
P)The principle that buildings, like industrial products, should serve the purpose for which they were made as well as possible. 
A) The glorification of the military as the supreme ideal of the state with all other interests subordinate to it. 
B) The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War. 
C) Fighting behind rows of ditches, mines, and barbed wire; used in World War I with a staggering cost in lives and minimal gains in territory. 
D) Practiced by countries fighting in World War I, a war in which the government plans and controls all aspects of economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort. 
E) The first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which unplanned uprisings led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a transitional democratic government that was then overthrown in November by Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
F)A counter-government to the 1917 Russian provisional government, this organization was a huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two to three thousand workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals.
G)The "majority group"; this was Lenin's camp of the Russian party of Marxist socialism.
H)The application of the total-war concept to a civil conflict; the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.
I)A permanent international organization established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars.
J)The 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I; it declared Germany responsible for the war, limited Germany's army to one hundred thousand men, and forced Germany to pay huge reparations.
K)The product of the 1924 World War I reparations commission, accepted by Germany, France, and Britain, that reduced Germany's yearly reparations, made payment dependent on German economic prosperity, and granted Germany large loans from the United States to promote recovery.
L)Adolf Hitler's autobiography, published in 1925, which also contains Hitler's political ideology.
M)The name given to a highly diverse and even contradictory philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence and the search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty.
N)Freudian terms for the primitive, irrational unconscious; the rationalizing conscious that mediates what a person can do; and the ingrained moral values that specify what a person should do.
O)A variety of cultural movements at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth that rebelled against traditional forms and conventions of the past.
P)The principle that buildings, like industrial products, should serve the purpose for which they were made as well as possible.

Question 16

What were Bismarck's goals in crafting the alliance system? What limited his success with these alliances?

Accepted Answer

Answer: His main goal was always to prot

Question 17

What did the British ask Hussein ibn-Ali to do for them in 1915?

Accepted Answer

A)  Send troops to the western front 
B)  Revolt against the Turks 
C)  Sell them oil at a discount 
D)  Help Jewish settlers in Palestine 
A)  Send troops to the western front 
B)  Revolt against the Turks 
C)  Sell them oil at a discount 
D)  Help Jewish settlers in Palestine

Question 18

At the end of the war, how were women in Britain, Germany, and Austria rewarded for their war efforts?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were granted more property rights. 
B)  They were given the right to vote. 
C)  Their salaries were increased. 
D)  They were finally allowed to run for public office. 
A)  They were granted more property rights. 
B)  They were given the right to vote. 
C)  Their salaries were increased. 
D)  They were finally allowed to run for public office.

Question 19

Use the following to answer questions :
-Bolsheviks

Accepted Answer

A) The glorification of the military as the supreme ideal of the state with all other interests subordinate to it. 
B) The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War. 
C) Fighting behind rows of ditches, mines, and barbed wire; used in World War I with a staggering cost in lives and minimal gains in territory. 
D) Practiced by countries fighting in World War I, a war in which the government plans and controls all aspects of economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort. 
E) The first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which unplanned uprisings led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a transitional democratic government that was then overthrown in November by Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
F)A counter-government to the 1917 Russian provisional government, this organization was a huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two to three thousand workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals.
G)The "majority group"; this was Lenin's camp of the Russian party of Marxist socialism.
H)The application of the total-war concept to a civil conflict; the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.
I)A permanent international organization established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars.
J)The 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I; it declared Germany responsible for the war, limited Germany's army to one hundred thousand men, and forced Germany to pay huge reparations.
K)The product of the 1924 World War I reparations commission, accepted by Germany, France, and Britain, that reduced Germany's yearly reparations, made payment dependent on German economic prosperity, and granted Germany large loans from the United States to promote recovery.
L)Adolf Hitler's autobiography, published in 1925, which also contains Hitler's political ideology.
M)The name given to a highly diverse and even contradictory philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence and the search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty.
N)Freudian terms for the primitive, irrational unconscious; the rationalizing conscious that mediates what a person can do; and the ingrained moral values that specify what a person should do.
O)A variety of cultural movements at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth that rebelled against traditional forms and conventions of the past.
P)The principle that buildings, like industrial products, should serve the purpose for which they were made as well as possible. 
A) The glorification of the military as the supreme ideal of the state with all other interests subordinate to it. 
B) The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War. 
C) Fighting behind rows of ditches, mines, and barbed wire; used in World War I with a staggering cost in lives and minimal gains in territory. 
D) Practiced by countries fighting in World War I, a war in which the government plans and controls all aspects of economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort. 
E) The first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which unplanned uprisings led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a transitional democratic government that was then overthrown in November by Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
F)A counter-government to the 1917 Russian provisional government, this organization was a huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two to three thousand workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals.
G)The "majority group"; this was Lenin's camp of the Russian party of Marxist socialism.
H)The application of the total-war concept to a civil conflict; the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.
I)A permanent international organization established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars.
J)The 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I; it declared Germany responsible for the war, limited Germany's army to one hundred thousand men, and forced Germany to pay huge reparations.
K)The product of the 1924 World War I reparations commission, accepted by Germany, France, and Britain, that reduced Germany's yearly reparations, made payment dependent on German economic prosperity, and granted Germany large loans from the United States to promote recovery.
L)Adolf Hitler's autobiography, published in 1925, which also contains Hitler's political ideology.
M)The name given to a highly diverse and even contradictory philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence and the search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty.
N)Freudian terms for the primitive, irrational unconscious; the rationalizing conscious that mediates what a person can do; and the ingrained moral values that specify what a person should do.
O)A variety of cultural movements at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth that rebelled against traditional forms and conventions of the past.
P)The principle that buildings, like industrial products, should serve the purpose for which they were made as well as possible.

Question 20

The Moroccan crisis led many Western nations to begin to view what country as a threat?

Accepted Answer

A)  Germany 
B)  The United States 
C)  Britain 
D)  Austria 
A)  Germany 
B)  The United States 
C)  Britain 
D)  Austria

Exam 28: World War and Revolution, 1914-1929

After forcing Bismarck's resignation, what did Wilhelm II refuse to do?

Why did Bulgaria join the Central Powers?

Which of the following certainly can be regarded to have weakened Russia's provisional government?

Where is the Ruhr Valley? Why did France and Belgium occupy this region when Germany refused to make its second reparations payment?

What was the status of organized Christianity in Europe in the 1920s?

What can be regarded as Russia's single greatest problem in World War I?

Which of the following was a major reason British leaders favored a less harsh peace with Germany after World War I?

What happened to the German emperor in November 1918?

What self-governing states were created in the Treaty of Versailles, and what lands were parceled out to the victors as colonies?

What did the Auxiliary Service Law of December 1916 declare?

According to Map 28.4, "Territorial Changes in Europe After World War I," which of the following is true regarding the demilitarized zone on the border of Germany and France?

Use the following to answer questions : -trench warfare

Which of the following contributed in large part to the escalation of tension between Britain and Germany after 1900?

When the provisional government came to power in Russia in March 1917, what problems did it face? How did the Bolsheviks capitalize on these difficulties?

Use the following to answer questions : -Treaty of Versailles

What were Bismarck's goals in crafting the alliance system? What limited his success with these alliances?

What did the British ask Hussein ibn-Ali to do for them in 1915?

At the end of the war, how were women in Britain, Germany, and Austria rewarded for their war efforts?

Use the following to answer questions : -Bolsheviks

The Moroccan crisis led many Western nations to begin to view what country as a threat?

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Continuity and Change in Europe and Western Asia, 250-850

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The Americas in the Age of Liberalism, 1810-1917

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