9330302567 | Who is in decline in the late 19th century and was referred to as the "Sick man of Europe? | The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) | 0 | |
9330302568 | Who meddled in the affairs of the Ottoman Empire? | European powers | 1 | |
9330302569 | Who forced Sultan to make changes and Turkification of minorities? | Young Turks | 2 | |
9330302570 | Who protected the Slavs in the Ottoman Empire? | Russia | 3 | |
9330302571 | Who did the Turks hire to modernize Turkey's armed forces? | A German general | 4 | |
9330302572 | Nationalism, alliances, military plans, and Germany's yearning to dominate Europe were the 4 main causes of what? | WW1 | 5 | |
9330302573 | Nationalism united what while undermining multiethnic empires? | Individual nations | 6 | |
9330302574 | How did Nationalism view war? | A crusade for liberty (revenge) | 7 | |
9330302575 | What did the well to do believe about war? | War could heal class decisions | 8 | |
9330302576 | Who was in the Triple Alliance? | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy | 9 | |
9330302577 | Who was in the Triple Entente? | Britain, France, and Russia | 10 | |
9330302578 | What did mobilization depend on? | Railroads to move troops | 11 | |
9330302579 | Who did Austria-Hungary declare war on, on July 28, 1948? | Serbia | 12 | |
9330302580 | What did the Alliance System mean about the war? | It was automatic (one go to war, others help) | 13 | |
9330302581 | What was odd about all the great WW1 leaders? | Descendants of Queen Victoria | 14 | |
9330302582 | What does the M in MANIA stand for? | Militarism | 15 | |
9330302583 | What does the A in MANIA stand for? | Alliances | 16 | |
9330302584 | What does the N in MANIA stand for? | Nationialism | 17 | |
9330302585 | What does the I in MANIA stand for? | Imperialism | 18 | |
9330302586 | What does the A in MANIA stand for? | Assassination (King Ferdinand) | 19 | |
9330302587 | What was the Western Front called? | Trench Warfare | 20 | |
9330302588 | For how many years was the war inclusive of land and sea? | 4 years | 21 | |
9330302589 | Who was the British Navy's biggest threat? | German subermines (U Boats) | 22 | |
9330302590 | What was the new defensive system in WW1? | Machine gun | 23 | |
9330302591 | The materials demands of trench warfare led governments to impose what? | Stringent controls | 24 | |
9330302592 | Rationing and the recruitment of Africans, Indians, Chinese, and women into force transformed what? | Civilian life | 25 | |
9330302593 | Why did German civilians suffer? | British naval blockade cut off access to essential food imports. | 26 | |
9330302594 | Why was Germany having such a hard time? | Crop failures, British Blockade, Turnip Winter, and imports favored the military | 27 | |
9330302595 | Who split the German military into France and Russia? | Schlieffen | 28 | |
9330302596 | British and French forces overran what? | Germany's African colonies (except for Tanganyika) | 29 | |
9330302597 | In all of their African colonies Europeans made Africans do what? | Food, imposed heavy taxes, forced Africans to grow export crops and sell them at low prices, and provide soldiers | 30 | |
9330302598 | How did the US grow rich with Woodrow Wilson as president? | Sold goods to Britain and France | 31 | |
9330302599 | Where did African-American migrate in the United States? | North | 32 | |
9330302600 | How did Germany bring the Unites States into the War in April 1917? | By attacking merchant convoys with unrestricted submarine warfare | 33 | |
9330302601 | What else did Germany do to bring the United States into the war? | Submarine warfare, Zimmerman Note | 34 | |
9330302602 | Where was submarine warfare? | Lusitania (1,198 died;139 Americans) | 35 | |
9330302603 | What was the Zimmerman Note? | From Germany to Embassy in Mexico to reconquer the United States | 36 | |
9330302604 | What was the Battle of Jutland? | British Navy and the German High Seas Fleet meet off of Denmark | 37 | |
9330302605 | The Western Front was unevenly matched until the Germans did what? | Pushed within 40 miles of Pairs | 38 | |
9330302606 | Why did the Allies to counterattack in August 1918 with German unrestricted Warfare? | The US arrived | 39 | |
9330302607 | When did the Turks sign a secret alliance with Germany, hoping to gain land from Russia? | Aug 2, 1914 | 40 | |
9330302608 | The secret alliance between Germany and Russia causes who to be massacred? | The Armenians in a death march | 41 | |
9330302609 | What was the promised called that the British made to the Jews to create a homeland for Jews led by Theodore Herzl? | Balfour Declaration (Palestine) | 42 | |
9330302610 | British tried to defeat Turks by using Arabs because they feared what? | Turks would close access to the West | 43 | |
9330302611 | Whats wrong with Russia's large army? | Poorly equipped | 44 | |
9330302612 | Czar Nicholas II leads troops Alexandra in St. Petersburg with whom? | The government | 45 | |
9330302613 | What was true about the Russian government? | Rasputin healed Alexis (heir to the throne), took over during French Revolution, Czar Nicholas ordered the execution, Czar wife and 3 dsughters were killed in a mass murder | 46 | |
9330302614 | Provisionial government supported what? | The war | 47 | |
9330302615 | Who led the Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks? | Vladimir Lenin | 48 | |
9330302616 | What happened in the war of Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks? | October Revolution take Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Surrendered to Germany, Land to the pheasants, Soviets, and Factories to the workers | 49 | |
9330302617 | The Bolsheviks vs Mensheviks signed what treaty? | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 50 | |
9330302618 | What did The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk cause? | Out of WW1 but lost land Poland and Finland | 51 | |
9330302619 | What did people fear about The Soviet Union in 1922? | Secret Police "chaka" | 52 | |
9330302620 | The war left more dead, wounded and destruction than any previous conflict how many died? | 8-10 million (compare to WW2 not a lot) | 53 | |
9330302621 | Refugees many fled to France and to the United States what was the preferred place to flee? | The United States | 54 | |
9330302622 | Because of the refugees what laws were passed? | United States Congress passed immigration laws that closed the doors to Eastern and Southern Europeans | 55 | |
9330302623 | Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 started with soldiers killing how many people? | 20 million | 56 | |
9330302624 | Damage to the environment (Western Front) and hastened what? | The build up of mines, factories, and railroads | 57 | |
9330302625 | United States President Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, and French Premier Georges Clemenceau, Italy Victorio Orlando were all what conference? | Paris Peace Conference | 58 | |
9330302626 | Why did the Treaty of Versailles humiliate Germany? | "guilt cause", Germany pays other countries for damage, Loss of Territory, High tariffs enacted by the allies. | 59 | |
9330302627 | What happened when the Empires collapsed? | Countries were created in the lands lost by Russia, Germany, Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary | 60 | |
9330302628 | What did Woodrow Wilson believe in? | Self-determination ethnicity and languages Czechoslovakia-- Yugoslavia 1918 | 61 | |
9330302629 | In what country were they in a civil war for 3 years after WW1? | Russia | 62 | |
9330302630 | What was the reason the communists won the Russian Revolution? | Leon Trotsky's leadership with the Red Army | 63 | |
9330302631 | 1922 Union of Soviet Socialist Republic who was executed? | Vladimir Lenin was executed | 64 | |
9330302632 | Beginning 1921 Lenin's New Economic Policy allowed what? | Private ownership and all but the largest businesses | 65 | |
9330302633 | Why was Lenin's New Economic Policy regarded as a temporary measure? | Extracting resources as the pheasants pay for industrialization | 66 | |
9330302634 | When Lenin was executed in January 1924 who were the two main contenders? | Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin | 67 | |
9330302635 | How was Stalin elected? | Stalin filed the bureaucracy with his supporters, expelled Trotsky, and forced him to flee the country | 68 | |
9330302636 | What was Stalin's moto? | Socialism in one country | 69 | |
9330302637 | The decade after the end of the war can be divided into what two periods? | Five years of painful recovery and readjustment (1919-1923) followedyy by 6 years of growing peace and prosperity (1924-1929) | 70 | |
9330302638 | What was China plagued by? | Rapid growth (400 million) | 71 | |
9330302639 | Japan had few what? | Natural resources and arable land | 72 | |
9330302640 | Above the peasantry Chinese society was divided among how many groups? | Landowners, wealthy merchants, and foreigners. | 73 | |
9330302641 | What does zaibatsu mean? | Giant cooperation | 74 | |
9330302642 | China's defeat in the Boxer affair of 1900 Chinese students to concluded what? | China needs a revolution | 75 | |
9330302643 | 1911 Sun Yatsen's, Revolutionary Alliance is formed an assembly and elected whom? | Sun as president of China (this is the brief time of democracy in China) | 76 | |
9330302644 | Japan is allied power in WW1 as an opportunity to conquer what? | German colonies | 77 | |
9330302645 | Who are Nationalist leaders? | Guomindang, Sun Yatsen | 78 | |
9330302646 | Who is the communist leader elected by listening to the peasants? | Mao Zedung | 79 | |
9330302647 | At the Paris Peace Conference the great powers allowed Japan to keep what? | German enclaves in China | 80 | |
9330302648 | How did China grow poorer? | While only the treaty ports prospered | 81 | |
9330302649 | Sun-Yatsen tried to make a comeback in Canton in the 1920's by reorganizing what? | Guomindang party | 82 | |
9330302650 | Sun's successor China Kai-shek crushed who? | Warlords in 1927 (Nationialists for democracy) | 83 | |
9330302651 | Chiang then split with and decimated who? | Communist party | 84 | |
9330302652 | Chiang's government was staffed by who? | Corrupt oppurtunuites | 85 | |
9330302653 | The Arab speaking territories of the former Ottoman Empire were what types of mandates? | Class A Mandates and promised independence | 86 | |
9330302654 | In practice, Britain took control of what countries? | Palestine, Iraq, and Trans-Jordan, while France took Syria and Lebanon as its mandates | 87 | |
9330302655 | Who is the hero of the Gallipoli campaign? | Mustava Kemal | 88 | |
9330302656 | What did Mustave Kemal form? | A nationalist government in 1919 and formed a secular republic in Turkey (former Ottoman Empire) --Progressive reforms | 89 | |
9330302657 | Among the Arab people, the thinly disguised colonialism of the Mandate System set off what? | Protests and rebellions | 90 | |
9330302658 | The British allowed Iraq to become independent under who? | King Faisal | 91 | |
9330302659 | France crushed nationalist uprisings where? | Lebanon and Syria | 92 | |
9330302660 | Britain declared Egypt to be independent in 1922 but retained control through its alliance with whom? | King Farouk-- phony independence | 93 | |
9330302661 | In the Palestine Mandate, the British tried to limit tbe wave of Jewish immigration that began in 1920, but only succeeded in alienating who? | Jews and Arabs (Unauthorized immigrants were not deported) | 94 | |
9330302662 | What is the significance of 11/11/1918? | It is when the armistice was signed by the Allies of WW1 and Germany to end the war. | 95 | |
9330302663 | What is a gulag? | Russian concentration camps made by Stalin. | 96 |
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