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The assassination of Archduke Francis 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 battle of Gallipoli was significant in that

this British-directed debacle cost the lives of many Canadian, Australian, and New Zealander troops.

Which of the following was NOT one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New Deal?

tighten the money supply

Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate when

troops garrisoned in the capital mutinied.

In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes

urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs.

In the years after World War I, the idea of progress

was roundly attacked.

Although he called himself a Marxist, Lenin, unlike Marx, believed that the revolution

would be led by a small, highly-disciplined party acting on behalf of the workers.

Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921

implemented free market reforms.

Which of the following was NOT one of the new artistic movements of the twentieth century?

impressionism

The spread of photography

led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to create it.

Which of the following was NOT a military technology used in World War I?

nuclear submarines

A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by

overproduction and falling prices.

During the Great Depression, most nations

practiced economic nationalism.

Dreadnoughts were designed primarily to

protect merchant shipping and conduct high-seas battles.

The purpose of alliances such as the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente was to

provide mutual defense and support in case of attack.

Compared to the western front, fighting on the eastern front was

more fluid, as the Germans made inroads into Russia.

The provisional government lost the support of many Russians because it

promised to continue the war to victory.

The rivalry between Germany and Britain up to 1914 included

ALL A) an expensive naval race. B) competition for foreign markets. C) tariff wars. D) competition for colonies in east and southwest Africa.

The author of Mein Kampf was

Adolf Hitler.

In addition to fighting off Allied forces, the Ottoman empire faced insurrection from the

Arabs

At the Paris Peace Conference,

Britain and France were determined to strip Germany of military power.

One of the most significant results of the artistic experimentation of the 1920s and 1930s was that

generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art disappeared.

The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was first articulated in

Einstein's theory of general relativity.

The author of All Quiet on the Western Front was

Erich Maria Remarque.

The key factor in the decision of the U.S. 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

Which of the following statements about the League of Nations is NOT true?

It was dominated by the countries of Europe.

The Russian civil war that broke out after the revolution was between

Reds and Whites.

"Ten days that shook the world" is a reference to the

Russian revolution in November 1917.

The father of psychoanalysis was

Sigmund Freud.

The First Five-Year Plan was initiated by

Stalin

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 Kristallnacht was

a Nazi-arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores.

According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was

a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes.

The German Schlieffen plan called for

a swift knockout of France, combined with defensive action against Russia.

The term Bauhaus is associated with

architecture.

In World War I, "no man's land" was the

deadly territory between opposing trenches.

The work of Walter Gropius

embodied the architectural principle that form should follow function.

Werner Heisenberg

first discussed the uncertainty principle.