Exam 28: World War I the West in Despair

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. How and why did the assassination of Franz Ferdinand escalate into World War I? What role did Austria-Hungary's problems with nationalities play in the events leading up to the assassination?

What was the rationale behind Wilson's proposal of a "peace without victory"?

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. In hindsight, World War I undermined European civilization and the West's position in the world. What circumstances of European development in the nineteenth century helped precipitate the antagonisms that led to war?

The Paris Peace Conference had to overcome

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? union sacrée

Which of the following describes how Lenin returned to Russia?

Which of the following was NOT among Wilson's goals?

The Treaty of Versailles laid sole responsibility for World War I on Germany. Who do historians say was responsible?

Prior to 1914, the dominant mood in Europe was one of

Why did Germany's break with Russia in 1890 prove to be so serious?

World War I signaled all of the following EXCEPT

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Explain the end of the First World War and the peace that followed.

Instructions: Please write a thorough, well-organized essay to answer each question. Comment on the reasons that impelled the United States to enter the war. Explain why it waited so long to enter the conflict.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Alsace-Lorraine

The reaction of the belligerents' civilian populations to the news of the war indicates that which of the following ideologies or Worldviews had come to dominate Europe?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Paris Peace Conference

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Bolshevism

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Locate and label the territories lost by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, and Germany at the end of World War I. Using arrows, indicate the names of countries established in those lands.

Instructions: Please use this outline map of Europe to answer the question(s). Mark the boundaries of the furthest advance of the Central Powers.

Each of the following is correct EXCEPT