Chapter 18 Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace

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