AP Euro Chapter 25

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maintain peace between Russia and Austria-Hungary

Bismarck's alliance system was designed to isolate France and to

Now wanting to shoulder the blame, they insisted moderate politicians should take responsibility for the defeat

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

The mandate system was to be understood as nothing other than economic and technical assistance that did not prejudice the complete independence of Syria

As noted in Primary Source 25.2, the General Syrian Congress in July 1919 sought "absolutely complete political independence for Syria" How did it reconcile this demand with the mandate system?

Providing care for the large number of injured veterans

Following the First World War, what was one of the most difficult domestic problems fixed by governments?

the living to fight those who killed them

John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields," as shown in Primary Source 25.2, states that the dead want

That all men between seventeen and sixty work at jobs considered critical to the war effort

What did Germany's Auxiliary Service Law require?

Britain favored a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine

What did the Balfour Declaration of November 1917, written by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, announce?

That it is neither sweet nor fitting to die for one's country

What does Wilfred Owen want the Reader to understand in "Dulce et Decorum Est" (Primary Source 25.2)

The Ottoman Empire ordered their mass deportation from their homeland, resulting in about a million Armenian deaths from murder, starvation, and disease

What happened to Armenian inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire during World War I?

Germany's decision to build a large fleet of battleships

What issue contributed to tensions between Germany and Great Britain in the first decade of the 1900's?

Germany's non-aggression pact with Russia

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

An unplanned uprising of hungry and angry people in the capital

What was the February Revolution in Russia in 1917?

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

What was the Skyes-Picot Agreement of 1916?

The German invasion of neutral Belgium

What was the immediate cause of British entry into the First World War?

Britain, France, and Russia began to see Germany as a threat to dominate all of Europe

What was the primary consequence of the First Moroccan Crisis in 1905?

Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire

Which nations joined the war on the side of the Central Powers?

Nationalistic aristocrats

Who assassinated Grigori Rasputin in 1916?

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

Who was Alexander Kerensky?

It was promised Austrian territory in return

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

They had little alternative, especially as the naval blockade was still in place and the German people were starving

Why did the Germans accept the Treaty of Versailles?


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