Chapter 25

According to the text allied intervention in the Russian civil waf

Helped the bolsheviks who could appeal to patriotic nationalism against the allies

What did Germany's auxiliary service law require?

It required all men between seventeen and sixty to work

Which of the following best characterizes the February revolution in Russia in 1917

It was the result of an unplanned uprising of people in the capital

Germany's initial offensive was stopped on the outskirts of Paris at the battle of

The Marne

What happened to the Ukraine and Belarus that the Soviet Union seceded to Germany in the treaty of Brest litovsk

The Soviet Union reconquered thise territories during its civil war

Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points called for all of the following except

The establishment of League of Nations

Generally, the offensives on the western front

were depressingly similar slaughters of massed infantry units

What did the Petrograd Soviet Army Order No. 1 state?

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

Why did war in the balkans appear inevitable from 1900-1914

Ottoman Empire had been forced to give up its territory in the region leading to growing ethnic nationalism

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.

What were both of 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.

Following the war the principle of national self Determination was floored and its application and all the following ways except

The victorious powers sought to create puppet states throughout central Europe

How did the war on the Eastern front differ from the war on the Western front?

The war on the Eastern front remained more mobile, with Germany in a more dominant position.

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.

At the Paris peace conference French premier George's Clemenceau

Wanted to create a buffer state between Germany and France

How did the western powers react to the declarations of independence by Syria and Iraq shortly following the first world war

Western powers invaded the two regions and defeated the independence movements.

The immediate cause of British entry into the First World War was

the German invasion of neutral Belgium

The war affected women in all of the following ways except...

A new image emerged that highly restricted women's sexuality and public appearance in the new work environment and public places.

As the war began, how did leading politicians and intellectuals present the war to their publics?

As a test of national power

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

He mandated land reform in order to offer his approval for what the peasants had already done.

Grigori Rasputin was assassinated by

Members of the high aristocracy

What was the principle of national self determination that Woodrow Wilson promoted

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

Why did the German military command recommence submarine warfare in the Atlantic ..

The believed improved submarines could..

Germany's last, all out effort for victory on the western front was defeated in 1918 at

The second battle of the Marne

After the conclusion of world war 1 Austria Hungary

Broke apart into several nation states

During the first world war the African colonial subjects of Britain and France

Generally supported their foreign masters.

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

Germany's non-aggression pact with Russia.

Tensions between Germany and Great Britain in the first decade of the 1900s were raised by all of the following except

Great Britain's new tariffs that prevented the import of German chemical products

Walter Rathenau is remembered for his

Role in Germany's total war mobilization.

How did Lenin and the Bolsheviks' view of the Marxian 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.

Throughout the First World War, what mistake did military commanders repeatedly make?

They attempted to mount massive offensives designed to break through entrenched lines.