Ch.30 study questions
As a result of the ongoing bloodshed, all of the following occurred except...
a communist revolution in Great Britain
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points called for all of the following except...
the destruction of Germany
What effect did World War I have on the status of women?
women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war
The Allied effort to seize the approaches to the Dardanelles Strait in 1915 was significant in that...
this British-directed debacle cost 250,000 casualties on each side.
Compared to the western front, fighting on the eastern front was...
more fluid, as the Germans made inroads into Russia
In World War I, "no man's land" was:
the deadly territory between opposing trenches.
The purpose of alliances such as the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente was...
to provide mutual defense and support in case of attack.
The purpose of the Twenty-one Demands was...
to reduce China to the status of a Japanese protectorate
At the Paris Peace Conference...
Britain and France demanded that Germany pay reparations
A key factor in the U.S. decision to enter World War I was...
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare against the United States.
By the end of the nineteenth century, nationalistic movements resulted in independent sovereignty for all of the following except ...
Ireland.
The Balkans War of 1912-1913 involved all of the following states except...
Italy.
Key western front battles occurred at...
Verdun and the Marne.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the catalyst that started World War I because...
his death brought to a head the tensions underlying the alliances in eastern and western Europe.
The provisional government lost the support of many Russians because it...
promised to continue the war to victory
Which of the following statements about the League of Nations is true?
Woodrow Wilson urged that the Covenant of the League of Nations be made an integral part of the peace treaties.
The national rivalries that helped produce World War I included all of the following except...
a proxy war between Britain and Germany fought in China.
The German Schlieffen Plan called for...
a swift knockout of France combined with defensive action against Russia.
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated was forced to abdicate when...
army troops in the capital mutinied.