Chapter 25

Which of the followings statements in not true?

C.) World War I made the world safe for democracy

The outbreak of war in August 1914 was met with

D.) enthusiasm, euphoria, and patriotism

The appeal of war in 1914 included

E.) all of these

World War I was fundamentally

C) a land war.

Over the course of the First World War

E) All of these

In areas where the military momentum was lost, all of the following happened except

A) early and frequent mutinies.

Which of the following statements is not true?

A) The intervention of America into the war added an increased sense of brutality.

The world of the trenches for the ordinary soldier did not include

E) disastrous air attacks.

Total war meant

C) unprecedented governmental mobilization of society.

In Ireland during the war

D) the Easter Rebellion was brutally suppressed by Britain.

Air attacks during World War One

C) were used to demoralize civilian populations.

For ordinary Germans, the war and the naval blockade resulted in

B) food shortages and increases in some diseases.

The First World War accelerated the socioeconomic changes associated with industrialization in the following way(s)

E) All of these

The “mobilization of enthusiasm” meant

A) unprecedented use of propaganda, portraying the enemy as so evil that only total victory could bring peace

The term white peace referred to

D) a negotiated peace without clear victory for either side

With the Tsar Nicholas II at the front

B) Rasputin emerged as the key political power behind Alexandra.

Which of the following did not contribute to the failure of the Russian military effort?

C) The traditional passivity of the Russian peasantry

When the tsarist government collapsed in the face of demonstrations demanding bread and widespread mutinies

A) a provisional government assumed temporary authority, while the capital came to be governed by the Petrograd Soviet.

All of the following are true of Lenin in 1917 except that he

C) had no problem persuading his party to seize power.

Lenin's aim in the October (November) Revolution was

C) to spark a worldwide revolution that would destroy capitalism.

Opposing the view of the Russian government and others that the war was not worth continuing, Woodrow Wilson insisted that

D) fourteen points should guide the new world order after an Allied victory.

The initially successful German offensive in 1918 was launched

E) All of these

Which of the following describes the German allies as the war drew to an end?

D) The Habsburg dynasty was disintegrating along nationality lines.

As negotiations for an armistice proceeded in October and November 1918

E) All of these

The most likely origin of the “stab in the back” theory associated with World War I was

A) genuine suspicion among the German population, which had been kept in the dark about Germany's faltering condition.

All of the following were consequences of the war except

D) relatively lenient treatment of the losing side.

The Balfour Declaration

B) cautiously favored a “Jewish home” in Palestine, where 90 percent of the population was Arab.

The Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany

E) All of these

In January 1919, Prince Faisal ibn-Husayn argued for all of the following except that

C) Arab civilization was superior and all Muslims should be united in a resurrected caliphate.

The cultural impact of the Great War

A) produced a feeling of resignation and cynicism.

All of the following are true about the League of Nations except that

C) the League was effective because of the strong leadership of the United States.