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3836093776Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip ignitingWorld War I0
3906165026In the early twentieth century, what changes were undermining apparent world stability?Tension grew between Germany and France in Europe1
3906168107An example of European meddling in Ottoman Empire affairs was theRussian interest in "protecting" the Slavs2
3906172547Nationalism in Europe led Europeans to view war asa justifiable way to avenge past injustices3
3906177033The early twentieth century system of alliances pitted the British, French, and Russians againstGermany, Italy, and Australia-Hungary4
3906178905The plan to mobilize millions of European troops was based onrailroad timetables5
3906181310Most European nations thought the war that started in 1914 wouldbe won by the fastest moving army and the boldest general6
3906183153A unique aspect of the Western Front wasthe three-hundred-mile-long of armies from Switzerland to the North Sea7
3906187662A new and potent defensive weapon in World War I wasthe machine gun8
3906187704The war at sea in the years 1914-1918pitted the British fleet against the German submarine9
3906189587Women during World War Ijoined the work force "for the duration"10
3906193356Which of the following is true of wartime food rationing?The diet of the German population was limited to one thousand calories per day.11
3906196317During World War I, Africaprovided over a million Africans for armed services12
3906198581The country that benefited most from World War I wasThe United States13
3906200182During World War I, African-Americans in the United Statesmigrated north in vast numbers from the South14
3906203160The Ottoman Turks signed a secret alliance withGermany, hoping to gain Russian territory15
3906205785The Zionist movement primarily desired tocreate a Jewish homeland in Palestine16
3906207242The Balfour Declarationoffered British support for the Zionist cause17
3906209921The group that suffered most within the Ottoman Empire during World War I was theArmenians18
3906211129The British tried to defeat the Ottomans byusing an Arab army against the Turks19
3906212602The Russian army during the warwas very large but poorly supplied and led20
3906213713The Russian tsar abdicatedduring the February Revolution21
3906216741Vladimir Lenin was the leader of theBolsheviks22
3906218282Which of the following was not included in Lenin's plan for Russiaa return to agrarian society23
3906219526At the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russialost territory, including Poland and Finland24
3906220720The United States finally entered the warbecause of German unrestricted submarine warfare25
3906224999Deaths in World War I numbered between ______ million?8 and 1026
3906225000The influenza epidemic of 1918-1919killed 20 million27
3906229056Woodrow Wilson's idea of self-determination was forEuropean nations to reflect shared ethnicity and language28
3906231836Which of the following was not one of the elements in the Treaty of Versailles that angered Germany?high tariffs enacted by the allies29
3906233939How did the Communists win the civil war in Russia after World War I?the military leadership of Leon Trotsky and the Red Army30
3906237602The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed byjoining Russia and the Soviet Ukraine31
3906240082Lenin's New Economic Policy in 1921allowed private ownership of land and all but the largest businesses32
3906242643The Communist Party planned to pay for industrialization byessentially making the peasants pay for it33
3906245544When Lenin died in 1924, the struggle for power of the Soviet Union result in theleadership of Joseph Stalin34
3906246894The German crisis of 1923 was marked byGermany recklessly printing money, causing inflation35
3906248375In 1900, China's population was400 million36
3906251506The main beneficiaries of Japan's prosperity of this period were the zaibatsu, who werefour giant corporations37
3906255052What was the result of the Boxer Rebellion of 1900?Western powers and Japan captured Beijing and demanded payments38
3906256305The Twenty-One Demands in 1915 would haveturned China into a virtual Japanese protectorate39
3906259840In 1923, Mustapha Kemal (Atatürk) turned Turkey intoa secular republic40
3906262568After the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the First World War, the modern Turkish stateinstituted many progressive reforms41
3906264087Egypt in the 1920shad "phony" independence instead of official British colonialism42
3906268906Which of the following did not result when far more Jewish immigrants than anticipated arrived in Palestine?The unauthorized immigrants were deported43
3906271575In the 1920s, women's liveschanged more than in any previous decade44
3906275747Before the twentieth century, what was the only nation in which women had the right to vote?New Zealand45

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