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| On June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated in the Bosnian city of... | Sarajevo |
| Using the Schlieffen Plan, | Germany invaded France by way of Belgium |
| The general attitude toward the prospect of a Europe-wide war among the people of Europe in the summer of 1914 was one of... | Naively romantic enthusiasm for the adventure of war |
| In a failed effort to open the Balkan Front, in 1915 the British launched an attack on... | Gallipoli |
| Among the major illusions held by civilians and military leaders early in WW1 was... | The belief of most military leaders that the use of still larger numbers of troops would allow them to get their troops beyond the enemy trenches and gain a quick victory. |
| The final German offensive was stopped on July 18, 1918 at the... | Second Battle of the Marne |
| The troops of which country turned the tide of the war in 1918? | The United States |
| The United States... | Took an idealistic stance at the Paris Peace Confrence |
| The Siberian peasant who had great influence on the Russian Tsarina was... | Rasputin |
| Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne as a result of strikes that broke out... | After working class women staged a massive food march in Petrograd |
| The Provisional Government that took power after the Tsar abdicated was headed by... | Alexander Kerensky |
| The Soviets were... | Councils of workers' and soldiers' deputies |
| In 1918, Lenin signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in which Russia gave up all of the following EXCEPT... | Muscovy |
| Leon Trotsky... | Led the Left group in the Politburo after Lenin's death |
| Lenin's new secret police were known as the... | Cheka |
| Under Lenin's New Economic Policy, | Individuals were permitted to own small retail stores and peasants to sell their produce |
| The British prime minister who had won a decisive electoral victory on a platform committed to making the Germans pay for the war was... | David Lloyd George |
| The Germans disliked the Versailles Treaty because... | Article 231 said that Germany (and Austria) bore sole responsibility for starting the war |
| Which of the following was NOT a penalty imposed on Germany in the Versailles Treaty? | The transfer of Bavaria to France as a reparations payment |
| Which of the following nations were created by the 1919 Paris Peace Conference? | Czechoslovakia and Poland |
| The new concept of the "mandate" created at the Paris Peace Conference, | Actually expanded Western imperialism in former Ottoman areas |
| Which of the following is an accurate description of Middle Eastern mandates instituted after World War I? | Britain took control of Iraq and Palestine |
| Which of the following was a manifestation of American isolationism? | Failure of the United States to join the League of Nations |
| The Dawes Plan was all of the following EXCEPT it... | Permanently solved all of Germany's economic problems |
| The Treaty of Locarno... | Guaranteed the new German borders with Belgium and France in the west |
| The postwar diplomacy of the 1920's.... | was superficial, as reflected by the overly optimistic response to the Locarno Treaty and other diplomatic agreements but which failed to deal with the issue of military disarmament |
| All of the following statements are correct about the Great Depression EXCEPT... | Economic depressions were a new phenomena in the European experience |
| As a result of the Great Depression... | Marxism and fascism gained in popularity |
| The new economic views of John Maynard Keynes held that... | Government public works spending would cut unemployment and revive an economy |
| The Great Depression... | Developed under the New York stock market collapse |
| The Popular Front in France... | Initiated a program of workers' rights, but its policies failed to end the depression |
| The New Deal was the attempt by the Roosevelt administration to.... | Have the federal government participate more actively in the economy |
| Changes in the middle-class attitudes during the 1920's included.... | The popularity of short skirts, short hair, and the use of previously risqué cosmetics. |
| Leading exponents and practitioners of Dadaism and Surrealism, respectively, were... | Hannah Hoch and Salvador Dali |
| Which of the following reflected new artistic trends of the 1920's? | James Joyce's "Ulysses" |
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