APWH Chapter 33 Multiple Choice Stem Question Study Guide

The spark for World War I, the first total war in history, was provided when Gavrilo Princip assassinated

Francis Ferdinand.

Approximately how many combatants died in World War I?

fifteen million.

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.

The nationalistic aspirations of subject minorities was most threatening to a state such as __________________.

Austria-Hungary.

Slavic cultural unity was actively promoted by ______________.

Russia.

In 1914, England's share of the world's industrial output stood at _________________________.

fourteen percent.

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?

WAS NOT: religious differences.

The members of the Triple Alliance were

Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy.

The French were deeply suspicious of German expansion because of ________________________.

the Franco-Prussian War.

The military plan that called for an invasion of France through Belgium was called _____________________.

The Schlieffen Plan.

The soldiers who marched off in 1914 to fight in World War I were mostly ____________________.

enthusiastic.

The German offensive of 1914 was halted at ___________________.

The Marne River.

The western front in World War I was ______________________.

a bloody stalemate.

In World War I, the eastern front was

__________________________.

ultimately a spectacular German success.

Which of the following does NOT characterize the experience of trench warfare in World War I?

WAS NOT: Calvary charges.

The massive German assault on the western front in 1916 was _______________.

unsuccessful because they didn't make it past the French troops at the fortress of Verdun.

The Somme was

__________________________.

an English assault in 1916 that gained a few thousand yards.

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the new total war of World War I?

WAS NOT: The extension of Laissez-Faire capitalism.

What effect did World War I have on the status of women?

they took on the men's roles (work).

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.

Which one of the following is NOT an explanation of the expansion of World War I to Asia, Africa, and the Pacific?

WAS NOT: The German invasion of neutral Belgium was such a profound breech of international law.

The Twenty-One Demands were issued _____________________.

on 18 January 1915.

The Japanese fought in World War I due to their

_______________________.

desire to acquire German colonies in Asia.

Which of the following was a German African colony conquered by the Allies in the Great War?

Togoland, the Cameroons, German Southwest Africa, German East Africa.

The March Revolution of 1917 ________________________.

was an unplanned and incomplete affair.

The last tsar of Russia was ______________________.

Nicholas II.

The main reason for the failure of the provisional government in Russia in 1917 was ____________________.

its Inability to satisfy popular demands for an end to the war.

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk _____________________________.

ended Russia's involvement in the World War I.

The official factor in the United States' decision to enter World War I was

Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917.

One of the major problems of the Paris peace negotiations that led to the Treaty of Versailles was

Russia's absence from the negotiations.

In the wake of World War I, Mustafa Kemal became president of

Republic of Turkey.

Woodrow Wilson agreed to many harsh stipulations to the Treaty of Versailles _______________________________.

in return for the creation of the League of Nations.

The mandate system _____________________________.

angered the Arab world because it was little more than a glorified form of imperialism.