Ap World History Chapter 33 Flashcards

4236691441	The spark for World War I was provided when Gavrilo Princip assassinated	Francis Ferdinand	0
4236691442	The first total war in world history was	World War I	1
4236691443	Approximately how many combatants died in World War I?	15 million	2
4236691444	The term for the idea that people with the same ethnic origins, language, and political ideals had the right to form sovereign states was	self determination	3
4236691445	The nationalistic aspirations of subject minorities was most threatening to a state such as	Austria Hungary	4
4236691446	Slavic cultural unity was actively promoted by	Russia	5
4236691447	In 1914, England's share of the world's industrial output stood at	14 percent, roughly the same as Germany	6
4236691448	Which of the following was NOT an important area of competition and conflict between England and Germany in the years leading up to World War I?	Religious differences	7
4236691449	The members of the Triple Alliance were	Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy	8
4236691450	The French were deeply suspicious of German expansion because of	the inability of the French to forget their humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War	9
4236691451	The military plan that called for an invasion of France through Belgium was called	the Schlieffen plan	10
4236691452	The soldiers who marched off in 1914 to fight in World War I were mostly	enthusiastic	11
4236691453	The German offensive of 1914 was halted at	the Marne River	12
4236691454	The western front in World War I was	a bloody stalemate	13
4236691455	The massive German assault on the western front in 1916 was	Verdun	14
4236691456	Which of the following does NOT characterize the experience of trench warfare in World War I?	cavalry charges	15
4236691457	The Somme was	an English assault in 1916 that gained a few thousand yards.	16
4236691458	In World War I, the eastern front was	a german success	17
4236691459	Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the new total war of World War I?	extenson of laissez-faire capitalism at its greatest freedom	18
4236691460	What effect did World War I have on the status of women?	Many countries allowed women's suffrage	19
4236691461	The World War I poet who considered Horace's line that it is "sweet and fitting to die for one's country," to be an "old Lie" was	Wilfred Owen	20
4236691462	Which one of the following is NOT an explanation of the expansion of World War I to Asia, Africa, and the Pacific?	The German invasion of neutral Belgium was a profound breech of international law	21
4236691463	The Twenty-One Demands were issued	by Japan to China	22
4236691464	The Japanese fought in World War I due to their	desire to acquire German colonies in asia	23
4236691465	Which of the following was a German African colony conquered by the Allies in the Great War?	Togoland	24
4236691466	The March Revolution of 1917	led to the establishment of a reform-minded provisional government in Russia	25
4236691467	The last tsar of Russia was	Nicholas II	26
4236691468	The main reason for the failure of the provisional government in Russia in 1917 was	its inability to satisfy popular demand for an end to war	27
4236691469	The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk	ended Russian involvement in World War 1	28
4236691470	The official factor in the United States' decision to enter World War I was	Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.	29
4236691471	One of the major problems of the Paris peace negotiations that led to the Treaty of Versailles was	Russia's absence from the negotiations	30
4236691472	Woodrow Wilson agreed to many harsh stipulations to the Treaty of Versailles	in return for the creation of the League of Nations	31
4236691473	In the wake of World War I, Mustafa Kemal became president of	Turkey	32
4236691474	The mandate system	angered the Arab world because it was little more than a glorified form of imperialism	33