Unit VI- Chapter 18 Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace, Ap Euro Chapter 17, Chapter 16

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.

the tank

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

The period historians call the New

Imperialism began in the ________.

1870s

India was formally ruled by which of the

following until 1857?

The Mughal emperor

When a European power placed one of its

officials in a foreign government to

remotely control that government a

_________ was created.

protectorate

Which country annexed Korea in 1910?

Japan

Laos and Cambodia became protectorates

of ________ in the 1880s and 1890s.

France

The Boxer Rebellion ended when ________.

an international army occupied Beijing

The Open Door Policy ________.

allowed all nations to trade in China on equal terms

What technological innovation helped

Britain win the first Opium War against

China?

Iron steamboat

The first transatlantic submarine cable

was laid in ________.

1866

What was "gunboat diplomacy"?

The use of warships to ensure cooperation

of local rulers with European imperialists

Missionaries were most active in

providing ________ to non-Westerners.

education

Why did British economic thinkers

advocate abandoning closed imperial

systems in favor of free trade?

Britain's manufacturing capacity

exceeded demands of the population.

The Opium Wars were a conflict between

Britain's desire to sell a product in China

and China's opposition to ________.

the import of an addictive product, opium

The Government of India Act in 1858

________.

transferred political authority from the

East India Company to the British Crown

Britain ________ from its rule of India.

benefited economically

By 1914, which of the following was true?

British colonization touched North, South, East, and West Africa.

Which of the following territories was

remained an independent nation in 1914?

Ethiopia

The Europeans' power attempt to

maximize their strategic control of

African territory, markets, and raw

materials was known as ________.

the Scramble for Africa

Which of these was used by Russia to

justify its expansion in the

Transcaucasus?

protection of fellow Christians

Which of the following statements is true

concerning colonization in Asia from

1880-1914?

American influence in southern Asia

increased by 1914.

Botanists played a profound role in which

of the following imperial ventures?

They transformed local crop production

to serve the needs of the empires' home

countries.

Anthropologists in the nineteenth and

early twentieth centuries did which of the

following?

They created zoo-like "native villages"

for people in Europe and America.

Which of these was NOT a British settler

colony?

Ireland

Which best describes the ultimate

outcome of the Russian wars of conquest

in Asia?

They resulted in Russian rivalry with

Britain.

Literacy rates were lowest in ________.

Italy

The Petit Journal is an example of ________.

mass circulation newspaper

Which of the following became a major factor in the emerging mass politics?

front-page editorials

The man generally accepted as the father of popular science fiction was ________.

Jules Verne

Darwin's Descent of Man ________.

contended that neither the origin of humans nor human character required the existence of a god

Friedrich Nietzsche portrayed Christianity as a religion that ________.

glorified human weaknesses

In France, the French Catholic Church and the Third French Republic ________.

were formally separated in 1905

In his "Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races," Count Arthur de Gobineau ________.

portrayed Western troubles as springing from racial mixing

Theodor Herzl ________.

called for a separate Jewish state in which Jewish rights and liberties would be protected

T. H. Huxley claimed to have found ________.

scientific proof of female inferiority

Most social scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century ________.

reinforced traditional gender roles

Mass-circulation newspapers, when first introduced, were characterized by ________.

stories about sensational crimes and political scandals

Auguste Comte's works were influential because they ________.

helped convince learned Europeans that all knowledge must resemble scientific knowledge

Christian missionaries in Muslim lands were most successful in ________.

educating young Arabs in science and medicine

The Manet painting "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" shows how ________.

leisure activities in modern urban life allowed people from different classes to mix

Which of these women's domestic roles was emphasized by most male intellectuals of the late 1800s?

reproductive

Which of these regions of Europe had lower literacy rates in the late 1800s?

southern and eastern

Sigmund Freud was unusual in paying close attention to _________.

dreams

In "A Room of One's Own", the "room" of the title symbolized _________.

a place for creative expression