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All of the following nations joined the war on the side of the Central Powers except

Italy.

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.

Grigori Rasputin was assassinated by

members of the high aristocracy.

Walter Rathenau is remembered for his

role in Germany's total war mobilization.

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

the German invasion of neutral Belgium.

Generally, the offensives on the western front

were depressingly similar slaughters of massed infantry units.

At the Paris Peace Conference, French premier Georges Clemenceau

wanted to create a buffer state between Germany and France.

What was the primary consequence of the First Moroccan Crisis in 1905?

Britain, France, and Russia began to see Germany as a threat.

What did Germany's Auxiliary Service Law require?

It required all men between seventeen and sixty 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 people in the capital.

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.

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.

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 Britain's rescue

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.

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.

After the conclusion of World War I, Austria-Hungary

broke apart into several nation-states.

Bismarck's alliance system was designed to isolate France and

maintain peace between Russia and Austria-Hungary.

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

the Marne.

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

the Second Battle of the Marne.

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.

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 war in the Balkans appear inevitable from 1900-1914?

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

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.

What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916?

An agreement between Great Britain and France to divide up parts of the Near East and Middle East after the war

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

Germany's non-aggression pack with Russia

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.

During the First World War, the African colonial subjects of Britain and France

generally supported their foreign masters

According to the text, Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War

helped the Bolsheviks, who could appeal to patriotic nationalism against the Allies.

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.

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points called for all of the following except

the punishment of war criminals

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.

What happened to the Ukraine and Belarus that the Soviet Union seceded to Germany in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

The Soviet Union reconquered those territories during its civil war.