Deck 23: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Question 1

In your opinion, which of the participating nations in World War I was most "guilty" and which was least guilty of causing the Great War, and why?

Answer 1

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Question 2

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

Answer 2

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Question 3

Discuss the concept of the "lost generation." Who was "lost" and what did they lose?

Answer 3

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Question 4

How and why did the events of the late spring and summer of 1914 ultimately move beyond the ability of governmental leaders to control?

Question 5

How did the democratic regimes of Britain, France and the United States avoid totalitarian takeovers while the Weimar Republic was unable to?

Question 6

How did the results of the Peace Conference create problems in postwar Europe? For whom, in particular? Could these problems have been dealt with more effectively? If so, how?

Question 7

"World War I fundamentally and permanently changed the lives of women in western civilization." Discuss, and include examples in making your case.

Question 8

"World War I was a revolutionary war." Discuss.

Question 9

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the Schlieffen Plan

Question 10

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Serbia and the Black Hand

Question 11

Why was Russia the only major belligerent power to experience a revolution during the war? Was the collapse of the imperial government in Germany at all similar? Why or why not?

Question 12

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the Battles of Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes

Question 13

Considering the possible causes and events, was World War I inevitable? Why or why not? If inevitable, from what date or from what event was there no turning back?

Question 14

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conscription

Question 15

What made the ideologies of communism and fascism appealing in the 1930s?

Question 16

What did "the winners" win in the Great War? And what did they lose?

Question 17

Were the Russian Revolutions of 1917 inevitable? Why or why not?

Question 18

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Triple Alliance and Triple Entente

Question 19

Explain, using specific examples of artists, schools of art, etc., how the horrors of World War I affected various forms of artistic expression in Europe and the U.S.  Can this artistic reaction be termed a revolution?  If so, why? If not, why not?

Question 20

Discuss the causes and major results of the Great Depression in the United States and Europe. Was it also a part of the Great War's aftermath? Was it effectively over by 1938?

Question 21

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the "sealed train"

Question 22

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the Bolshevik Party

Question 23

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Alexander Kerensky and the Provisional Government

Question 24

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trench warfare

Question 25

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war communism

Question 26

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"Peace, Land, Bread" and "All Power to the Soviets"

Question 27

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David Lloyd George

Question 28

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total war

Question 29

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Rasputin

Question 30

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Gallipoli and Verdun

Question 31

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Georges Clemenceau

Question 32

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soviets

Question 33

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the Red Army and "revolutionary terror"/Cheka

Question 34

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Nicholas II and Alexandra

Question 35

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militarism

Question 36

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V. I. Lenin

Question 37

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the Lusitania

Question 38

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Woodrow Wilson

Question 39

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deficit spending

Question 40

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March Revolution

Question 41

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the Weimar Republic

Question 42

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Ottoman Empire

Question 43

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Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin

Question 44

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Armenian genocide

Question 45

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Great Depression

Question 46

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Works Progress Administration and the Social Security Act

Question 47

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New Economic Policy (NEP)

Question 48

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Paris Peace Conference

Question 49

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Dawes Plan

Question 50

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John Maynard Keynes

Question 51

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the League of Nations and mandates

Question 52

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Treaty of Brest Litovsk

Question 53

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the October 1929 Stock Market Crash

Question 54

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Treaty of Versailles

Question 55

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reparations and the Ruhr

Question 56

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal

Question 57

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Article 231/ War Guilt Clause

Question 58

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France's Popular Front

Question 59

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Theodor van de Velde's Ideal Marriage

Question 60

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Treaty of Locarno

Question 61

The Battle of the Somme

A) was the first major battle of World War I.
B) killed more than 21,000 British soldiers in a single day.
C) was the first, quite unexpected, victory of the Austro-Hungarian army.
D) occurred in Belgium, and brought Britain and the Netherlands into the war.
E) was fought near the beaches of Gallipoli.

Question 62

In a failed effort to open a Balkan front, in 1915 the British launched an attack on

A) Belgium.
B) Constantinople.
C) Adrianople.
D) Gallipoli.
E) Sarajevo.

Question 63

The general attitude toward the prospect of a Europe-wide war among the people of Europe in the summer of 1914 was one of

A) fear of the prospect of going to war.
B) naively romantic enthusiasm for the adventure of war.
C) lack of enthusiasm for the confrontation ahead.
D) indifference to developments in international affairs as spring faded into summer.
E) ignorance, because no one knew what the diplomats were doing behind closed doors.

Question 64

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Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory

Question 65

Leon Trotsky had a long political rivalry with

A) Joseph Stalin.
B) V.I. Lenin.
C) the entire Russian Politburo.
D) David Lloyd George.
E) the soviets.

Question 66

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Dadaism

Question 67

On June 28, 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated in the Bosnian city of

A) Trieste.
B) Prague.
C) Belgrade.
D) Sarajevo.
E) Mostar.

Question 68

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"stream of consciousness"

Question 69

Where was the initial German offensive on World War I's Western Front stopped in September 1914?

A) Masurian Lakes.
B) Battle of the Marne.
C) Battle of Verdun.
D) Battle of Argonne Forest.
E) Battle of the Somme.

Question 70

Among the major factors leading to the outbreak of war in mid-1914 was

A) badly implemented brinkmanship on the part of Europe's diplomats.
B) German leaders' determination to end Danish opposition to construction of a huge naval base at Kiel.
C) Japan's determination to seize either United States or German colonies in the Pacific, leading to the Japanese declaration of war against Germany in mid-August 1914.
D) Russia's unexpected attack on Serbia and Bulgaria in late June 1914.
E) the assassination of the heir to the Russian Empire.

Question 71

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Surrealism

Question 72

By 1917, World War I had

A) forced the Germans into waging unrestricted submarine warfare against the United States.
B) enveloped every nation of the world in warfare.
C) resulted in the German capture of several British and French colonies.
D) produced a German attack on United States seaports.
E) led to a communist revolution in Germany.

Question 73

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Arnold Schönberg and Hannah Höch

Question 74

The troops of which country turned the tide of the war in 1918?

A) Japan
B) the United States
C) China
D) Abyssinia
E) Spain

Question 75

The United States

A) entered the war immediately after a number of Americans died when the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine.
B) had, in President Wilson, a strong foe of total war mobilization.
C) sent its troops to China during the civil war there.
D) took an idealistic stance at the Paris Peace Conference.
E) joined the League of Nations in spite of Woodrow Wilson's opposition.

Question 76

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Hollywood studio system

Question 77

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Herman Hesse and James Joyce

Question 78

Using the Schlieffen Plan,

A) Germany launched a massive invasion of the Warsaw region of Poland.
B) France declared war on Austria.
C) Italy invaded the Austrian Tyrol.
D) Germany invaded France by way of Belgium.
E) England declared war on Belgium.

Question 79

The final German offensive was stopped on July 18, 1918 at the

A) Masurian Lakes.
B) Second Battle of the Marne.
C) Battle of Verdun.
D) Battle of Argonne Forest.
E) Battle of the Somme.

Question 80

All of these developments occurred during the first year of World War I EXCEPT

A) the Schlieffen Plan almost gave Germany victory in the West.
B) the Western Front became a bloody stalemate involving virtually endless trench warfare.
C) Russia badly defeated the Germans at the Battles of Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes.
D) a combined German-Austrian force dealt the Russians a nearly fatal defeat in Galicia.
E) the Serbians were defeated by a combined German-Austrian-Hungarian force.