HIST 144 Unit 1

In 1914, Poland was an independent state.

False

Which of the following was NOT true about the five European "Great Powers"?

All competed for overseas colonies

In 1914, Bosnia-Herzegovina belonged to

The Austro-Hungarian Empire

Which of the following was NOT a task of the League of Nations?

Mobilize an armed Peace Corps to protect ethnic minorities

The "Spirit of Locarno" stands for

The mood of international reconciliation int he mid-1920s

In Republican France, as the war broke out, at least one in six of the mobilized men refused to be drafted

False

Trench warfare was more deadly than mobile warfare.

False

Identify Gallipoli

The site of an amphibious Allied offensive against the Ottoman Empire

Which of these two camps was the most successful by the end of 1915?

The Central Powers

Identify Edith Cavell

An English nurse who helped soldiers escape German-dominated areas

The war went on through 1917 because there were no critical voices to oppose the war.

False

Identify Chemin des Dames

Site of a doomed French offensive which triggered a wave of French army protests

In WWI, many Middle Eastern civilians starved to death because of a naval blockade organized by

The Allied Powers

Why was the Allied counteroffensive more successful than the preceding attempted “breakthroughs” (of 1916 and 1917) had been? 

Because the tactics were less sweeping and bold

The Peace Treaty of Versailles gave the Left Bank of the Rhine to France

False

What are “mandates” (after WWI)? 

Areas given to European states to rule temporarily

The paragraph “Impacts of the Great Depression” contains a quote from a work by George Orwell. What struck George Orwell the most about the impact of the Great Depression?

The lack of intervention to coordinate demand and supply

Which of these does NOT feature in the definition of liberal political institutions?

Guaranteed basic income

In prison at Landsberg Castle, Adolf Hitler did NOT

Found the Nationalist Socialist Party

In the interwar years, Health Ministries were

A feature of both authoritarian and democratic states

Nazi Germany prepared for war with the US well before 1939.

True

Identify the Kwantung Army

The Japanese forces in Manchuria

The Balfour Declaration was

A British promise for the Jews to have an area of their own in Palestine

The U.S. Congress declared war on Germany in April 1917. By what time could the U.S. troops be deployed on the Western front?

The summer of 1918

Identify Philippe Pétain

The general who organized the defense of Verdun

The battle of Jutland was

A naval battle between the British and the Germans (1916)

Identify the Free Corps

German paramilitary units

As the war went on into 1918, why did the Allies not ask for a compromise peace?

Because they feared they would be treated like Russia

The year 1914 was the most murderous year of the war. Yet this did not generate calls for the war to end at year’s end. This was because

The war dead were defined as sacrificial heroes, whose example had to be followed

The 1915 John McCrae poem “In Flanders Fields” is an antiwar poem.

False

With “semi-modern war,” the historian Dennis Showalter means

A war combining modern weapons and traditional modes of transport

The war continued into 1916, although by then no-one believed in “atrocity” stories any more

False

The Greek-Turkish war ended in

A Greek defeat and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Greeks from Turkey

Identify the Sudetenland

Part of Czechoslovakia with a large percentage of ethnic Germans

Identify the Rif War

A war in northern Morocco against the Spanish colonizers

Which was the first country to systematically enact compulsory sterilization?

The USA

Identify Joachim von Ribbentrop

Nazi Germany’s Secretary of State

Which of these does NOT feature in the definition of liberal political institutions?

Free enterprise without state intervention

Which of these does NOT belong to the “Spirit of Locarno” developments?

The lenient treatment of Hitler at Landsberg Castle

Which of these does NOT apply to Italy’s war on Ethiopia which started in 1935?

Mussolini hoped it would lead to war with France and Britain

According to Gerhard L. Weinberg, in the run-up to the world war, what distinguished the three states that would become the Axis?

Italy and Japan had traditional imperialist aims that dated from before 1914, Germany wanted to redraw the racial map worldwide

In the interwar years, natalist policies were

Pursued by both authoritarian and democratic states