Deck 4: The World Wars

Question 1

Who was Gavrilo Princip?

A) The Prime Minister of Serbia.
B) The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
C) The Russian foreign minister.
D) The commanding general of Austria-Hungary's army.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which countries were members of the Triple Alliance?

A) Great Britain, France, and Russia.
B) Great Britain, France, and Italy.
C) Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
D) Germany, France, and Russia.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What set of ideas in the years before World War One promoted racism and a belief in the superiority of some nations over others?

A) Marxism-Leninism.
B) Fascism.
C) Zionism.
D) Social Darwinism.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What factor do realists focus on as a cause of World War One?

A) British imperialism.
B) French belief in offensive war.
C) Rapidly growing German power.
D) Kaiser Wilhelm's mercurial personality.

Question 5

Against what country did Prussia fight in the third and final war of German unification in 1870?

A) Denmark.
B) Austria-Hungary.
C) Italy.
D) France.

Question 6

Of the members of the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente, which country did not honor its alliance obligations in 1914?

A) France.
B) Italy.
C) Russia.
D) Germany.

Question 7

What Balkan country did Austria-Hungary believe was trying to produce unrest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

A) Bosnia-Herzegovina.
B) Serbia.
C) Croatia.
D) Bulgaria.

Question 8

What was the policy called that Kaiser Wilhelm pursued after 1890?

A) Weltpolitik.
B) Imperialism.
C) Realpolitik.
D) Preponderance.

Question 9

Which of the following was Alsace-Lorraine?

A) The region through which the Germans planned to invade France.
B) The site of the French defenses in front of Paris.
C) The provinces annexed by Germany in 1870.
D) The site of the final battle of the Austro-German War of 1866.

Question 10

What geographic region did Bismarck believe were "not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier"?

A) Anatolia.
B) The Baltic Sea.
C) The Balkan Peninsula.
D) The Danube Basin.

Question 11

Which of the following was a Mandate of the League of Nations?

A) Iran.
B) Ethiopia.
C) Yugoslavia.
D) Iraq.

Question 12

What was "Fashoda"?

A) An African territory annexed by France in 1906.
B) The site of an Anglo-French colonial confrontation in 1898.
C) The first city in Russia attacked by the Germans in 1914.
D) The code name for the French war plan of 1914.

Question 13

With what contentious issue in Anglo-German relations was Alfred von Tirpitz involved?

A) The Daily Telegraph affair.
B) The Anglo-German naval arms race.
C) The First Moroccan crisis.
D) The invasion of Belgium.

Question 14

What innovation revolutionized naval warfare before World War One?

A) France's introduction of aircraft carriers.
B) The opening of the Panama Canal.
C) The establishment of a German base on the Shantung Peninsula in China.
D) The introduction of a heavily armored, all-big-gun battleship by Great Britain.

Question 15

What countries were involved in an arms race on land before World War One?

A) Germany and Russia.
B) France and Great Britain.
C) Austria-Hungary and Italy.
D) Russia and Turkey.

Question 16

What country was known as the Dual Monarchy?

A) Russia.
B) Serbia.
C) Germany.
D) Austria-Hungary.

Question 17

Over what African country did Germany and France almost come to blows in 1905 and 1911?

A) Morocco.
B) Algeria.
C) Tunisia.
D) Libya.

Question 18

Over what region did Austria-Hungary and Russia almost come to blows in 1908?

A) Bosnia-Herzegovina.
B) Serbia.
C) Montenegro.
D) Albania.

Question 19

Through what waterway did Russian naval vessels have to pass in order to reach the Mediterranean Sea?

A) The Skagerak.
B) The Dardanelles.
C) The Malacca Straits.
D) The Straits of Gibraltar.

Question 20

What event triggered British entry into World War One?

A) The German invasion of Belgium.
B) Austro-Hungarian mobilization.
C) The German declaration of war against France.
D) The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.

Question 21

What was the "blank check" of 1914?

A) Germany's agreement to support whatever Austria-Hungary chose to do to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
B) Germany's budget for its naval arms race with Great Britain.
C) The Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia.
D) The authority of Germany's Kaiser in military matters.

Question 22

What process prior to war led military leaders to pressure politicians to make hasty decisions?

A) Naval deployment.
B) Military mobilization.
C) Universal conscription.
D) Intelligence gathering.

Question 23

At what level of analysis is the theory that World War One was a result of Slavic nationalism in Austria-Hungary?

A) Individual.
B) Unit.
C) More than one level.
D) Global system.

Question 24

According to Vladimir Lenin, what was the cause of World War One?

A) Imperialism.
B) Arms races.
C) German aggression.
D) Anachronistic leaders.

Question 25

Which of the following is not an assumption of collective security?

A) Peace is in the national interest of all states.
B) States should seek to balance the power of foes.
C) All states must cooperate to punish aggressors.
D) States should have no permanent friends or enemies.

Question 26

What did decisions of the League of Nations Council and Assembly require?

A) A majority of the entire membership of the League.
B) Approval by the League Secretary-General.
C) A majority of the delegates present at the time a vote was held.
D) Unanimity.

Question 27

Which article of the League of Nations Covenant allowed for the use of force against aggressors?

A) Article 11.
B) Article 14.
C) Article 16.
D) Article 12.

Question 28

Which of the following countries remained a member of the League of Nations throughout its history?

A) The United States.
B) France.
C) Japan.
D) The Soviet Union.

Question 29

What country was the victim of Italian aggression in the 1930s?

A) Ethiopia.
B) Greece.
C) Poland.
D) Austria.

Question 30

What was Manchukuo?

A) The city where Mao Zedong sought refuge when fleeing Japanese attacks in World War Two.
B) The site of clashes between Soviet and Japanese troops in Mongolia in the late 1930s.
C) General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters during World War Two.
D) A puppet state set up by Japan in China.

Question 31

What area did Hitler occupy with military forces in 1936 in violation of the Versailles Treaty and Locarno Treaties?

A) Austria.
B) The Sudetenland.
C) The Rhineland.
D) Danzig.

Question 32

With what policy was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain associated?

A) Alliance with the Soviet Union.
B) Appeasement of Germany.
C) Guaranteeing the security of Czechoslovakia.
D) Reconciliation with Italy.

Question 33

Germany's invasion of which country marked the beginning of World War Two?

A) France.
B) Czechoslovakia.
C) Belgium.
D) Poland.

Question 34

Which of the following was a system-level explanation for the failure of the League of Nations?

A) America's absence from the League.
B) The multipolar distribution of power.
C) The League voting system.
D) The passivity of the League secretary-general.

Question 35

What World War Two leader had been a corporal during World War One and had been blinded during a gas attack?

A) Winston Churchill.
B) Benito Mussolini.
C) Franklin D. Roosevelt
D) Adolf Hitler.

Question 36

Which of the following was not a factor in explaining Britain's policy of appeasement?

A) Growing suspicion that Japan and Germany would form an alliance against Great Britain.
B) Widespread public opposition in Britain to rearmament and a strong desire to work through the League of Nations.
C) Britain's lack of military preparedness, especially its inadequate air force.
D) Widespread revulsion among British elites at the prospect of another world war.

Question 37

Which of the following countries was annexed by Germany in 1938?

A) Poland.
B) Romania.
C) Austria.
D) Czechoslovakia.

Question 38

What conflict beginning in 1936 saw the Germans and Italians helping one side and the Soviet Union helping the other side?

A) The Spanish Civil War.
B) The Chaco War.
C) The Russo-Finnish "Winter War"
D) The Italian-Ethiopian War.

Question 39

What was at stake at the 1938 Munich Conference?

A) The security of Poland.
B) The independence of Czechoslovakia.
C) The neutrality of Belgium.
D) The independence of Austria.

Question 40

What followed the incident at the Marco Polo Bridge in 1937?

A) The invasion of Spain by supporters of fascist leader Francisco Franco.
B) The German occupation of Austria.
C) The Italian invasion of Ethiopia.
D) The Japanese invasion of China.

Question 41

What world leader declared in 1937: "It seems to be unfortunately true that the epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading. And mark this well: When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease."

A) Winston Churchill.
B) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
C) Adolf Hitler.
D) Josef Stalin.

Question 42

What was the procedure under which large amounts of supplies were sent to Britain from America on credit?

A) Lend-Lease.
B) Destroyers for Bases.
C) The Atlantic Charter.
D) The ABC-1 Report.

Question 43

What day "will live in infamy"?

A) The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
B) The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
C) The Japanese occupation of Indochina.
D) The Soviet invasion of Finland.

Question 44

What was the United States' reaction to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria?

A) It would not recognize any territorial changes resulting from the invasion.
B) It dispatched troops to East and Southeast Asia.
C) It embargoed the export of scrap iron and oil to Japan.
D) It sent the Flying Tigers to help China defend itself.

Question 45

To what was Winston Churchill referring when he wrote: "The Prime Minister had declared that sanctions meant war; secondly, he was resolved that there must be no war; and thirdly, he decided upon sanctions."

A) The 1925 Locarno Treaties.
B) British policy toward General Franco's regime after the Spanish Civil War.
C) British policy toward Italy during its invasion of Ethiopia.
D) The Munich agreement with Hitler.

Question 46

What was a global system-level explanation of World War Two?

A) The defeat of Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War One.
B) The election of Hitler in Germany in 1933.
C) Great Britain's failure of rearm in the 1930s.
D) The triumph of Bolshevism in Russia in 1917.

Question 47

When did Germany suffer catastrophic inflation?

A) After it began massive rearmament.
B) After France occupied the Ruhr.
C) After it began paying reparations to Britain and France.
D) After the Soviet Union beat back the German invasion.

Question 48

To what was French Premier Georges Clemenceau referring when he commented that "God Almighty only had Ten Commandments!"

A) Franklin Roosevelt's Quarantine Speech.
B) Austria-Hungary's ultimatum to Serbia.
C) The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Treaty.
D) Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points.