HIS 102 W01 - Quiz XXII
The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 was an agreement between...
...Great Britain and France to divvy up parts of the Middle East after the war.
Following the First World War, one of the most difficult domestic problems faced by governments was...
...returning to peacetime economic production.
In 1917, the Germans aided Vladimir Lenin in overthrowing Alexander Kerensky's government by...
...transporting him across Germany in a sealed train.
The February Revolution in Russia in 1917 was a(n)...
...unplanned uprising in Petrograd that quickly spread throughout the country.
How did Lenin's and the Bolsheviks' view of the Marxist party in Russia differ from the Mensheviks' view of the party?
The Bolsheviks wanted a small, disciplined party, while the Mensheviks wanted a democratic party with mass membership.
How did the moderate Social Democrats in Germany put down the radical Communist Spartacist Uprising?
They called on bands of demobilized soldiers to crush the uprising.
Which statement describes content of the "war guilt clause" in the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany (with Austria) was responsible for the war and had to pay reparations.
What was French premier Georges Clemenceau's position at the Paris Peace Conference?
He wanted to create a buffer state between Germany and France.
Who assassinated Grigori Rasputin in 1916?
Russian aristocrats.
Which statement describes the outcome for Ukraine and Belarus, parts of the Russian Empire ceded to Germany in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in the early twentieth century?
The Bolsheviks reconquered those territories during the civil war.