Chapter 26 AP Euro
Why did the German military command recommence submarine warfare in the Atlantic despite knowing that it would lead the United States to enter the war against them ?
They believed that improved submarines could starve Britain into submission before the United States could come to Britian's rescue
How did the moderate Social Democrats in Germany put down the radical communist Sparticist Uprising ?
They called on bands of demobilized soilders 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
Why did Germany accept the Treaty of Versailles?
They had little alternative, especially as the naval blockade was still in place and the people of Germany were starving
What happened to Ukraine and Belarus when the Soviet Union suceded to Germany in the Treaty of the Brest-Litovsk?
They were established as independent nations
Austria-Hungary deliberately chose war in July 1914
To stem the tide of hostile nationalism within its borders
At the Paris Peace Conferance, French premier Georges Clemenceau
Wanted to create a buffer State between Germany and France
Generally, the offensives on the western front
Were depressingly similar slaughters of massed infantry units
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
In Austria-Hungary, the revolution after World War 1 was primarily
A nationalist revolution
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
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
As the war began, how did leading politicians and intellectuals present the war to their publics ?
As a test of strength that would lead to national unity and renewal
What was the primary consequence of the First Moroccan Crisis in 1905?
Britain, France, and Russia began to see Germany as a threat to all of Europe
During the First World War, the African colonial subjects of Britain and France
Generally supported their forgein masters
What issue most subtantionally raised tensions between Germany and Great Britain in the first decade of the 1900s?
Germany's decision to build a large fleet of battleships
What part of Bismark's alliance system did William II abandon?
Germany's non-aggression pack with Russia
How did Henri Pétain maintain order among French troops by late 1917?
He formed a tactic agreement with the troops that there would be no more grand offensives
How did Lenin respond to the peasants' seizure of land when he rose to power in 1917?
He mandated the land reform in order to offer his approval for what the peasants had already done
According to the text, Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
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 17 and 60 to work at jobs considered critical to the war effort
Which of the following best characterizes the February revolution in Russia in 1917?
It was the result of an unplanned uprising of hungry and angry people in the capital
All of the following nations joined the war on the side of the Central Powers except
Italy
Bismark's alliance system was designed to isolate France and
Maintain peace between Russia and Austria-Hungary
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 soilders
Grigori Rasputin was assasinated by
Nationalistic aristocrats
What was the principal 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
Following the First World War, one of the most difficult domestic problems faced by the government was
Providing care for the large number of injured veterans
Walter Rathenau is remembered for his
Role in Germany's total war mobilization
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
How did Lenin and Bolshevik's view of the Marxian party in Russia differ from the Menshevik's view of the party?
The Bolshevik's wanted a small disciplined party, while the Mensheviks wanted a Democratic Party with mass membership.
The immediate cause of the British entry into the First World War was
The German invasion of neutral Belgium
Germany's initial offensive was stopped on the outskirts of Paris at the Battle of
The Marne
Why was the Balkans considered the "tinderbox of Europe"?
The Ottoman Empire had been forced to give up its territory in the region, leading to growing ethnic nationalism
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
Throughout the First World War, what mistake did military commanders repeatedly make?
They attempted to mount massive offensives designed to break through entrenched lines