Ch 25 HIS Quiz

What did the Schlieffen Plan call for in 1914?

A lightning attack through neutral Belgium and a quick defeat of France before turning on Russia

What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916?

An agreement between Great Britain and France to divide up parts of the Near and Middle East after the war

Who was Alexander Kerensky?

An important liberal political leader of the Provisional Government in Russia.

What part of Otto von Bismarck's alliance system did William II abandon?

Germany's non-aggression pact with Russia.

How did Henri-Philippe Pétain maintain order among French troops by late 1917?

He formed a tacit agreement with the troops that there would be no more grand offensives.

What was the result of Allied support of the White armies in the Russian civil war?

It helped the Bolsheviks, who could appeal to patriotic nationalism against the Allies.

Why did Italy, after declaring neutrality in 1914, decide to join the Triple Entente in 1915?

It was promised Austrian territory in return.

What was the principle of national self-determination promoted by Woodrow Wilson?

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

Walter Rathenau is remembered for his

Role in Germany's total war mobilization.

What were the two-front wars that military planners had anticipated prior to the First World War?

Russia had assumed a two-front war against Germany and Austria-Hungary and Germany had assumed a two-front war against Russia and France.

What ultimately happened to Ukraine and Belarus, parts of the Russian Empire ceded to Germany in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

The Soviet Union reconquered those territories during its civil war.

War Communism

The application of centralized state control during the Russian civil war, in which the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.

What was the fatal turning point in the Russian prosecution of the war?

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

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

They called on bands of demobilized soldiers called Free Corps to crush the uprising.

What was the primary political weakness of the White forces as they fought against the Bolsheviks?

They had a poorly defined political program that failed to unite the enemies of the Bolsheviks.

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.

Fourteen Points

Woodrow Wilson's post WWI plan, most of which was rejected by European leaders following the war.