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The Triple Alliance forged by Bismarck
consisted of ________.
Germany, Austria, and Italy
William II wanted ________.
a navy and colonies like Britain's
At the Congress of Berlin in 1878,
________.
Germany claimed a new role on the world stage
According to the Schlieffen Plan of 1905,
which of the following was supposed to
happen?
German troops would move west quickly to
defeat France and then move to the eastern
front.
Colonel T. E. Lawrence played a key role in
the war in ________.
the Middle East
The British introduced the use of ________
in World War I.
poison gas
The second Moroccan crisis brought Britain
closer to ________.
France
Who was Rasputin?
a faith healer who advised the tsar
Leon Trotsky's military forces were
opposed by the ________.
White Russians
The civil war between the Red Russians
and White Russians ended in ________.
1921, when the Red Army finally overcame
the domestic opposition
Mainly due to the British forces, by October
30, 1918, ________ was out of the war.
Turkey
The peace treaty signed in Paris in 1920
between Turkey and the Allies dismembered
________.
The Ottoman Empire
A Greek invasion of the Turkish homeland
provoked a nationalist reaction, bringing the
young general Mustafa Kemal, or ________,
"Father of the Turks"
The Big Four were ________.
the United States, Britain, France, and Italy
In the peace talks that ended World War I,
Germany ________.
was forced to accept terms dictated by the
victors
Mandates established in the former
Ottoman Empire were administered by
________.
France and Britain
What motivated Russia and France to
form an alliance?
Germany had been too successful in
isolating both countries diplomatically.
Initially the Soviets ________.
allowed the provisional government to function without actually supporting it
A main reason for popular discontent with
the Russian provisional government in
1917-1918 was ________.
continuing shortages of food
Bolshevik Russia agreed to the Treaty of
Brest-Litovsk, under which they ________.
yielded Finland, Poland, and Ukraine to
Germany
Why did the Bolsheviks oppose World War
I?
They believed it benefited only capitalism.
The Germans controlled Eastern Europe and
its resources, especially food, and by 1918
were free to concentrate their forces on the
western front. These developments would
probably have been decisive without
________.
American intervention
Which of the following eventually brought
about the end of the Ottoman Empire?
its decision to enter the war on the side of
Germany in 1914
The covenant of the League of Nations
sought to establish ________.
a system for resolving international conflicts
The German strategy of fomenting
trouble in Russia by returning Lenin from exile
can be considered ________.
entirely successful
