Chapter 24: The First World War

Select all the statements that reflect the Bolshevik view on socialist revolution.

centralized party of active revolutionaries revolution the only path to socialism time was right for a proletarian revolution

Select all the weapons that were introduced during the First World War.

poison gas exploding bullets tanks liquid fire

Select all the correct principles and parts of Wilson's Fourteen Points.

self-determination of peoples end to secret diplomacy reduction of armaments League of Nations

Choose the sentence that best describes the Ottoman Empire's treatment of its Armenian population.

Due to the increasing pressure of war, the Turks singled out the Armenians for mistreatment and ultimately geocide.

Unlike on the Western Front, the Eastern Front led to a rapid German victory over the Russians due to their victories at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes.

False

Select all the factors that explained the United States' new status as a world power at the time of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Intervention in the first world war second industrial revolution finance technological advances

Choose the sentence that does not describe a strategic consequence of the Battle of the Marne.

It demonstrated the success of the Schlieffen Plan

Select all the consequences of the German decision to invade Belgium on August 4, 1914.

It provided Italy with a reason to stay neutral. It provided Great Britain with a reason to declare war.

The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania in May 1915 was a consequence of which of the following?

The British blockade of food and Raw materials to Germany

Select all the factors below that he identifies.

Treaties forced large European powers to grapple with localized conflicts. There were German anxieties over a potential two-front war. The dangers posed by the politics of the Balkans were feared.

Select all the correct consequences of the Easter Revolt in Ireland in 1916.

Britain's relationship with its Irish subjects was injured. British military subdued the revolt. Years of subsequent guerilla violence ensued.

Click on all the countries that were either created or made politically independent as a result of the Treaty of Versailles.

Finland Czechoslovakia Austria Yugoslavia Poland Hungary

Which of the following was not one of the factors that caused the "tragedy of miscalculation" that led to the outbreak of the First World War?

France's plan to fight a two-front war

Place in correct chronological order the events that led up to the outbreak of hostilities in the summer of 1914.

Franz Ferdinand is assassinated Serbia rejects the Austrian ultimatum Russia mobilizes its army Germany declares war on France and Russia

Click on all the countries that belonged to the Triple Alliance.

German Empire Austria-Hungary Italy

One key reason why the Balkans became a potentially explosive area in the immediate period before the First World War was because of the weakening of the ____________ Empire.

Ottoman

He led the French forces to make a determined stand at the Battle of Verdun in 1916 (last name only).

Petain

Choose all the correct reasons why the Russian Empire had lost much of its political legitimacy by the end of 1916.

Rasputin's corruption at the Tsar's court peasant revolts in the countryside military defeats in Poland and the Baltic lands

Read the following passage from Lenin's letter to the Bolsheviks. They [the Bolsheviks] can ... [take power] because the active majority of the revolutionary elements of the people of both capitals is sufficient to attract the masses, to overcome the resistance of the adversary, to vanquish him, to conquer power and to retain it. For, in offering immediately a democratic peace, in giving the land immediately to the peasants, in re-establishing the democratic institutions and liberties which have been mangled, ... the Bolsheviks will form a government which nobody will overthrow. ... Choose the sentence that best summarizes Lenin's argument for why the Bolshevik government, once in power, would endure.

The Bolsheviks have the support of the people and act in their interest

In their fight against the Ottoman Empire, the British were successful in gaining the support of different Arab peoples.

Tru

The decisive turning point on the Western Front was the influx of American soldiers, beginning in the summer of 1917.

True

Choose all the colonial territories that sent soldiers to fight in Europe during the First World War.

Canada Australia

What, in his view, was the main accomplishment of the Treaty of Sèvres, which dealt with the breakup of the Ottoman Empire?

It made former Ottoman territories into protectorates controlled by Britain and France

Choose the sentence that best describes the changes in the front lines between June and November of 1918.

The eastern front witnessed a major shift while the Western front in France saw a quick reversal after a brief period of movement

Choose the sentence that best describes what it suggests women's roles in the war should be.

The poster argues that British women should encourage their men to join the army

One of the key economic developments of the First World War was the increasing tendency for national governments to take control of all aspects of production and distribution.

True

The term total war refers to the intense mobilization of civil society in all the major European nations to support the war effort.

True

Match the response to the strains of war to the locale in which it took place.

Work stopped among seamstresses - France Shipbuilders and steelworkers went on strike - Scotland Workers went on strike against ration cuts - Germany

Postwar policies that encouraged women to leave the factories and to return to the domestic sphere of marriage and family, also called ______________ policies, made maternity benefits available to women for the first time.

natalists

Choose what was not a consequence of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918.

A comprehensive peace among the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain, and France

Read the passage from Emperor Franz Joseph's letter to Kaiser Wilhelm below. So far, all investigations have shown that the Sarajevo murder was not perpetrated by one individual, but grew out of a well-organized conspiracy, the threads of which can be traced to Belgrade. Even though it will probably be impossible to prove the complicity of the Serb government, there can be no doubt that its policy, aiming as it does at the unification of all Southern Slavs under the Serb banner, encourages such crimes, and that the continuation of such conditions constitutes a permanent threat to my dynasty and my lands ... Choose the sentence that best describes the emperor's view of the Serbian government.

Even if the Serbian government didn't directly order the assassination, its nationlist policies certainly spurred the act

Following the October Revolution, Lenin and the Bolsheviks implemented a popular democracy that governed through universal suffrage.

False

Which sentence does not describe the situation of the German Empire by early November 1918.

Invasion by the Allies

Select all the correct ways that women's lives changed during the war.

loosened restrictions on private life greater industrial employment clerical and service sector work

Choose the one aspect that he does not identify as one of the war's long-term legacies.

the breakup of the great multinational empires

Choose the sentence that best describes Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles.

The Clause that held Germany and it allies responsible for the First World War

Choose the sentence that best describes its message.

The Germans are vicious savages who threaten Americans and their lives

Choose the sentence that best describes the main problem that creating new nations out of the old European empires instigated.

These new nations had their own ethnic minorities who had their own aspirations

Read the following passage recounting the opinion of the Hungarian prime minister, Count Istvan Tisza, on drafting an ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. These demands must be hard but not so that they cannot be complied with. If Serbia accepted them, we could register a noteworthy diplomatic success and our success and our prestige in the Balkans would be enhanced. If Serbia rejected our demands, then he [Tisza] too would favor military action. But he would already now go on record that we could aim at the downsizing but not the complete annihilation of Serbia because, first, this would provoke Russia to fight to the death and, second, he—as Hungarian premier—could never consent to the monarchy's annexation of a part of Serbia. Choose the sentence that best describes his position.

Tisza wants Serbia to be punished but not competely destroyed by Austria-Hungary

Financing the war proved to be a significant strain on all governments. France, Russia, and small Allied nations borrowed heavily from - who, in turn, had taken out loans from -. By the end of the war, the amount of these loans had risen to $-billion. Because it had to endure a blockade of money and goods, - suffered worst. It resorted to increasing its - supply so much that there was a dramatic rise in -.

1. Great Britain 2. The United States 3.4.2 4. Germany 5.Money 6.Inflation

The British decided to attack the Gallipoli Peninsula after -entered the war. The lead planner, -, believed that a quick victory would protect British control of the -. However, the actual attack proved to be disastrous when the British land invasion was halted by -. In all, the Allies lost 200,000 soldiers in the campaigns, many of them from the British "white dominion" territories such as Australia and -.

1. the Ottoman Empire 2.Churhill 3.Suez Canal 4. Barbed Wure 5.Canada

Following the abdication of the Tsar, a provisional government was set up in February 1917 by leaders in the -and generally composed of -. Its members hoped to set up a -system of government and sought to secure -. However, the government lost a lot of its popular support when it chose to - Russia's participation in the war, leading to mass - of soldiers by the fall of 1917.

1.Duma 2.Liberals 3.Democratic 4.Civil Liberties 5.Continue 6.Desertion

Choose the sentence that does not reflect the strategy of the Bolsheviks during 1917.

Advocate active collaboration with the Menshviks

T. E. Lawrence became famous as "Lawrence of Arabia" following the capture of what strategic port?

Aqaba

As a result of the failure of the Nivelle Offensive, nearly two-thirds of British soldiers went out on strike.

False

In keeping with its stated principle of "national self-determination," the League of Nations granted independence to former European colonies such as French Vietnam and British India.

False

Is it true that he argues that wartime mobilization was quickly terminated at the end of the war and that European governments no longer intervened in their countries' economies?

False

One reason why the Russian army fared poorly in battle was due to its relatively small size compared to the German army.

False

The Bolshevik Party under Lenin forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate during the October Revolution.

False

The spark that provoked the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was the desire among Bosnian Serbs to create their own Bosnian Serb state.

False

Unlike in the prewar period when they were persecuted, Jews in Russia were particularly valued for their contributions to the war effort.

False

Match the former territories to the nation that controlled them after the Treaty of Versailles.

Great Britain - Match the former territories to the nation that controlled them after the Treaty of Versailles. France - Anatolia Turkey - Lebanon and Syria

What is the Russian name for the workers' and soldiers' councils that, during 1917, would come to play an increasingly powerful political role?

Soviet

Choose the sentence that best compares their differing visions of women's roles during the war.

The Russians endorse a military active role for women, the Germans a more charitable, traditionally domestic role

Match the battle to its appropriate description or outcome.

The Somme - A British offensive that failed to push back the German line. Verdun - A German offensive that was successful repelled by the French. Nivelle Offensive - A French offensive that proved to be a costly disaster.

Select the sentence that best describes the changes from the beginning to end of that year.

The only gains were made in northern Italy and eastern Austria-Hungary