Chapter 33 Multiple Choice Questions

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

nuclear submarines

Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate when . . .

troops garrisoned in the capital mutinied.

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.

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 until victory.

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.

The purpose of the Twenty-One Demands was to . . .

reduce China to the status of a Japanese protectorate.

The battle of Gallipoli was significant in that . . .

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Russian revolution in November 1917.

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 German Schlieffen plan called for . . .

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

The rivalry between Germany and Britain up to 1914 included . . .

an expensive naval race, competition for foreign markets, tariff wars, and competition for colonies in east and southwest Africa.

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

deadly territory between opposing trenches.


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