Deck 8: The Crises of the Late Middle Ages

Question 1

In the late nineteenth century, the British were most concerned about the growing economic power of:

A) France
B) Russia
C) Germany
D) the United States

Answer 1

Germany

Question 2

Following the Franco-Prussian War, Bismarck sought to protect German interests by forming the Dual Alliance with:

A) Britain
B) Italy
C) Russia
D) Austria

Answer 2

Austria

Question 3

A major international crisis occurred in 1905 when the Germans and the French clashed over:

A) Morocco
B) Algeria
C) the Sudan
D) the Balkans

Answer 3

Morocco

Question 4

The Russian Revolution of 1905 came as Russia was suffering a humiliating military defeat at the hands of:

A) the Ottoman Empire
B) Japan
C) China
D) Germany

Question 5

Which of the following was not a revolutionary party in early twentieth-century Russia?

A) the Bolsheviks
B) the Mensheviks
C) the Union of the Russian People
D) the Social Revolutionaries

Question 6

According to the German Schieffen Plan:

A) Russia needed to be defeated first in a general European war
B) France needed to be defeated first in a general European war
C) Britain needed to be defeated first in a general European war
D) it was important to fight France and Russia at the same time and it did not matter who was defeated first

Question 7

No country was fully prepared for the horror and traumatic ordeal of World War I, but probably the least prepared was:

A) Russia
B) Austria
C) Germany
D) France

Question 8

Which of the following was not one of the major battle sites of the Western Front?

A) the Somme
B) Verdun
C) Passchendaele
D) Tannenburg

Question 9

The Provisional Government that replaced tsarist rule in February 1917 was dominated by representatives of:

A) the military
B) the peasants
C) the aristocracy and middle classes
D) the workers

Question 10

The most radical group calling for further revolution in Russia in 1917 was:

A) the Bolsheviks
B) the Mensheviks
C) the Social Revolutionaries
D) the Constitutional Democrats

Question 11

11. Among the measures implemented by the Bolsheviks within six months of seizing power in Russia were all but which of the following:

A) an eight-hour workday
B) nationalization of the banks
C) the New Economic Policy
D) ending Russia's participation in World War I

Question 12

Between 1918 and 1921 the Bolsheviks implemented a policy that was known as:

A) the New Economic Policy
B) the first Five-Year Plan
C) the Great Leap Forward
D) War Communism

Question 13

Lenin's New Economic Policy was brought to an end because Russia had reached prewar levels of production by:

A) 1922
B) 1924
C) 1926
D) 1928

Question 14

The British sought to weaken the Ottoman Empire during World War I by encouraging rebellion among:

A) the Turks
B) the Serbs
C) the Arabs
D) the Persians

Question 15

Both Lenin in Russia and Ataturk in Turkey:

A) formed a dictatorial government that aimed at modernizing their country
B) opposed the emancipation of women
C) sought to change their countries politically while preserving their traditional religious values
D) all of the above

Question 16

Which country did not enter World War I by declaring war on another country?

A) Germany
B) France
C) Austria
D) Britain

Question 17

What two countries formed the Entente Cordiale in 1904?

Question 18

What was Stolypin's "wager on the strong"?

Question 19

What was the first European country to declare war in the summer of 1914 and what was the object of that declaration?

Question 20

What unpopular adviser to Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia was assassinated in December 1916?

Question 21

The Bolsheviks came to power in October 1917 with the support of what other party, to which the former head of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, had belonged?

Question 22

On whose side did the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) fight during World War I?

Question 23

Discuss the causes of the Russian revolutions of 1917. Why do you think that two revolutions were necessary in that year? What strengthened the appeal of the Bolshevik party? Do you think that a Communist revolution in Russia was inevitable in the twentieth century? Why or why not?

Question 24

Discuss the background and origins of the First World War. Was the war inevitable? In what ways do you think that the war marked a significant turning point in European history?