Exam 2 Quiz 12 (v)

Approximately how many people died on the battlefields of the First World War?

8 million

Which statement describes content of the "war guilt clause" in the Treaty of Versailles?

Germany (with Austria) was responsible for the war and had to pay reparations.

Which statement describes the result of Allied support of the White armies in the Russian civil war?

It allowed the Bolsheviks to appeal to patriotism against the Allies.

How did Lenin's and the Bolsheviks' view of the Marxist party in Russia differ from the Mensheviks' view of the party?

The Bolsheviks wanted a small, disciplined party, while the Mensheviks wanted a democratic party with mass membership

How did the moderate Social Democrats in Germany put down the radical Communist Spartacist Uprising?

They called on bands of demobilized soldiers to crush the uprising

Who was Alexander Kerensky?

An agrarian socialist who became prime minister of Russia in July 1917

Which statement best describes the content of the Balfour Declaration of November 1917, written by British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour?

Britain supported the creation of a national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 was an agreement between

Great Britain and France to divvy up parts of the Middle East after the war

How did Lenin respond to the peasants' seizure of land when he rose to power in 1917?

He mandated land reform that endorsed what the peasants had already done

Which statement best describes the content of the Petrograd Soviet Army Order No. 1?

Military officers were to be stripped of their authority, and power was to be placed in the hands of elected committees of soldiers

Which statement best describes the principle of national self-determination that was promoted by U.S. president Woodrow Wilson?

Peoples should be able to choose national governments through a democratic process and live free from outside interference.

Who assassinated Grigori Rasputin in 1916?

Russian aristocrats

Which statement describes the outcome for Ukraine and Belarus, parts of the Russian Empire ceded to Germany in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in the early twentieth century?

The Bolsheviks reconquered those territories during the civil war.

Which statement describes the primary political weakness of the White forces as they fought against the Reds?

They had a poorly defined political program, other than hating the Reds.

How did the Western powers react to the declarations of independence by Syria and Iraq shortly following the First World War?

They invaded the two regions and defeated the independence movements.

How did Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff react to Germany's loss in the war in the fall of 1918?

They sought to place the blame for losing the war on moderate politicians.

Following the First World War, one of the most difficult domestic problems faced by governments was

providing care for the large number of injured veterans

In 1917, the Germans aided Vladimir Lenin in overthrowing Alexander Kerensky's government by

transporting him across Germany in a sealed trai

The fatal turning point in the Russian prosecution of the war was the

tsar's decision to assume command of Russia's armies, leaving the government in the hands of the strong-willed, autocratic tsarina

The February Revolution in Russia in 1917 was a(n)

unplanned uprising in Petrograd that quickly spread throughout the country.