Exam 28: World War and Revolution, 1914-1929

A) It was intended to serve as a buffer zone between Germany and the Balkans.
B) It was intended to protect French neutrality should another war break out in Europe.
C) Its location was in the same region where Germany launched the opening phase of the Schlieffen plan.
D) Its location was in an area that robbed Germany of access to some of its more important agricultural lands.

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A) The Anglo-Russian Agreement of 1907
B) Germany's decision to dramatically expand its naval forces
C) Increasing British investment in the German economy
D) Britain's decision to aid Japan in the Russo-Japanese War

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A) All American males between ages eighteen and forty-five were subject to conscription.
B) All German men between ages seventeen and sixty had to work only at jobs connected to the war effort.
C) All German women were declared subject to conscription for noncombat roles in the military.
D) Irish subjects of the British crown were drafted for service in British arms factories.

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A) The glorification of the military as the supreme ideal of the state with all other interests subordinate to it.
B) The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War.
C) Fighting behind rows of ditches, mines, and barbed wire; used in World War I with a staggering cost in lives and minimal gains in territory.
D) Practiced by countries fighting in World War I, a war in which the government plans and controls all aspects of economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort.
E) The first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which unplanned uprisings led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a transitional democratic government that was then overthrown in November by Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
F) A counter-government to the 1917 Russian provisional government, this organization was a huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two to three thousand workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals.
G) The "majority group"; this was Lenin's camp of the Russian party of Marxist socialism.
H) The application of the total-war concept to a civil conflict; the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.
I) A permanent international organization established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars.
J) The 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I; it declared Germany responsible for the war, limited Germany's army to one hundred thousand men, and forced Germany to pay huge reparations.
K) The product of the 1924 World War I reparations commission, accepted by Germany, France, and Britain, that reduced Germany's yearly reparations, made payment dependent on German economic prosperity, and granted Germany large loans from the United States to promote recovery.
L) Adolf Hitler's autobiography, published in 1925, which also contains Hitler's political ideology.
M) The name given to a highly diverse and even contradictory philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence and the search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty.
N) Freudian terms for the primitive, irrational unconscious; the rationalizing conscious that mediates what a person can do; and the ingrained moral values that specify what a person should do.
O) A variety of cultural movements at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth that rebelled against traditional forms and conventions of the past.
P) The principle that buildings, like industrial products, should serve the purpose for which they were made as well as possible.

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A) Send troops to the western front
B) Revolt against the Turks
C) Sell them oil at a discount
D) Help Jewish settlers in Palestine

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A) They were granted more property rights.
B) They were given the right to vote.
C) Their salaries were increased.
D) They were finally allowed to run for public office.

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A) Germany
B) The United States
C) Britain
D) Austria

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A) Honor any of Bismarck's alliances
B) Continue funding the expansion of the German navy
C) Continue conflict with France, instead offering to give back some land
D) Renew the nonaggression pact with Russia

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A) Inefficient, outdated weapons
B) Weak overall leadership
C) A lack of nationalist support
D) A shortage of ordinary soldiers

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A) The glorification of the military as the supreme ideal of the state with all other interests subordinate to it.
B) The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War.
C) Fighting behind rows of ditches, mines, and barbed wire; used in World War I with a staggering cost in lives and minimal gains in territory.
D) Practiced by countries fighting in World War I, a war in which the government plans and controls all aspects of economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort.
E) The first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which unplanned uprisings led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a transitional democratic government that was then overthrown in November by Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
F) A counter-government to the 1917 Russian provisional government, this organization was a huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two to three thousand workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals.
G) The "majority group"; this was Lenin's camp of the Russian party of Marxist socialism.
H) The application of the total-war concept to a civil conflict; the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.
I) A permanent international organization established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars.
J) The 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I; it declared Germany responsible for the war, limited Germany's army to one hundred thousand men, and forced Germany to pay huge reparations.
K) The product of the 1924 World War I reparations commission, accepted by Germany, France, and Britain, that reduced Germany's yearly reparations, made payment dependent on German economic prosperity, and granted Germany large loans from the United States to promote recovery.
L) Adolf Hitler's autobiography, published in 1925, which also contains Hitler's political ideology.
M) The name given to a highly diverse and even contradictory philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence and the search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty.
N) Freudian terms for the primitive, irrational unconscious; the rationalizing conscious that mediates what a person can do; and the ingrained moral values that specify what a person should do.
O) A variety of cultural movements at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth that rebelled against traditional forms and conventions of the past.
P) The principle that buildings, like industrial products, should serve the purpose for which they were made as well as possible.

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A) The royal families of the two nations had several connections by marriage.
B) Prior to the war, Germany had been Britain's second-largest export market.
C) Britain hoped to invest in Germany's industrial Ruhr district.
D) Britain feared France would dominate the European continent without a strong Germany.

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A) The announcement that Russia was quitting the war
B) Government confiscation of large landholdings
C) The dissolution of the Duma
D) The requirement that it share power with the Petrograd Soviet

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A) The glorification of the military as the supreme ideal of the state with all other interests subordinate to it.
B) The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War.
C) Fighting behind rows of ditches, mines, and barbed wire; used in World War I with a staggering cost in lives and minimal gains in territory.
D) Practiced by countries fighting in World War I, a war in which the government plans and controls all aspects of economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort.
E) The first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which unplanned uprisings led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a transitional democratic government that was then overthrown in November by Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
F) A counter-government to the 1917 Russian provisional government, this organization was a huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two to three thousand workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals.
G) The "majority group"; this was Lenin's camp of the Russian party of Marxist socialism.
H) The application of the total-war concept to a civil conflict; the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.
I) A permanent international organization established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars.
J) The 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I; it declared Germany responsible for the war, limited Germany's army to one hundred thousand men, and forced Germany to pay huge reparations.
K) The product of the 1924 World War I reparations commission, accepted by Germany, France, and Britain, that reduced Germany's yearly reparations, made payment dependent on German economic prosperity, and granted Germany large loans from the United States to promote recovery.
L) Adolf Hitler's autobiography, published in 1925, which also contains Hitler's political ideology.
M) The name given to a highly diverse and even contradictory philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence and the search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty.
N) Freudian terms for the primitive, irrational unconscious; the rationalizing conscious that mediates what a person can do; and the ingrained moral values that specify what a person should do.
O) A variety of cultural movements at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth that rebelled against traditional forms and conventions of the past.
P) The principle that buildings, like industrial products, should serve the purpose for which they were made as well as possible.

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