True or False Study Guide No.1

Russians pulled out of WWI as a result of Lenin’s communist revolution

True

US became the most active participant of the League of Nations

False

The League of Nations is the forerunner of the UN and the brainchild of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

False

Germany became the dominant power in the European continent after the end of the Franco-Prussian war in 1871

True

From an economic point of view, WWI was won by the United States and Japan

True

Although Germany lost WWI, France was by far much more affected by the war

True

After WWI, in order to give Poland access to a seaport on the Baltic, they gave it a land “corridor” inhabited by over one million Germans.

True

The Western allies did nothing to prevent the strengthening of the new communist government of Russia after the Bolsheviks took power

False; Americans and British were concerned the weapons sent to bolster the Russian government were stolen by the Bolsheviks, so the combined armed military forces of US, Britain, Japan, French worked together to relieve pressure of Ludendorff’s spring offensive

The area of Lebanon and Syria, taken from the Ottoman Empire during WWI were given as mandates to Great Britain

False, they became mandates of France

The International Labor Organization, as a component of the League, was created by the great powers as a way of appeasing trade union elements that might become attracted to communism (Russia had just become communist).

True

The international order established at Versailles (and on which the League of Nations was based) was inherently unstable because it was based on the temporary weakness of Germany and Russia

False

During the creation of the League of Nations’ covenant, the Japanese insisted upon, and the colonial powers opposed, a declaration supporting the idea of the equality of races

True

One of the great successes of the League of Nations was in the economic field, where it was able to prevent the rise of economic nationalism and bring about greater trade among nations

False

The crisis that effectively broke the League as a significant instrument for international peace was Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia

True