HISTORY EXAM- CHAPTER 23

The aggressive preparation for war, was growing along with nations’ armies

Militarism

The Western Front was characterized by

Trench warfare that kept both sides in virtually the same positions for four years.

The Triple Alliance was a loose agreement of cooperation among

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Military opposition or other forms of challenges to the Red Army came from all of the following EXCEPT

Italian royalists who supported Lenin

The Schlieffen Plan was

Germany’s plan for a two-front was with Russia and France, which had formed a military alliance.

The Red secret police, known as the Cheka, began

A Red terror campaign to destroy all those who opposed the new regime

Which one of the following is NOT considered a major cause of WWI?

Impressionism

What was the name of the group that conspired to assassinate Archduke Francis Ferdinand?

The Black Hand

By attacking Austria in May 1915, Italy

Betrayed Germany and Austria by joining with the Allied Powers

To maintain high morale and maintain support for the war among their citizens

nation-states used propaganda

In an attempt to end Russia’s involvement in the war, Lenin

Signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, which gave up much of Russian territory

After the war, Britain ruled Iraq and Palestine as

Mandates on behalf of the League of Nations, but did not own the territory

During the war, new roles in the workforce were created for women because

So many men entered the military effort

Across Europe, wartime governments

Set up planned economies

France’s approach to peace was guided in large part by

The desire for national security

Women workers in Petrograd marched in protest, then

Organized a general strike

Austria-Hungary feared that Serbia would

Create a large Slavic state

__ Became the spokesperson for a new world order based on democracy and international cooperation

Woodrow Wilson

Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germnay was forced to do all of the following EXCEPT

Run Italy as a mandate

American president Wilson argued at the Paris Peace conference most strongly for

A League of Nations to prevent future wars

Kerensky’s provisional government made the fatal mistake of deciding to

Continue the war

the treaty of versailles was signed by the big three powers as a peace settlement with

Germany

austria-hungary, bulgaria, germany, and the ottoman empire became known as

The central powers

after german kaiser wilhelm fled the country in 1918, germany formed a

Democratic republic

the united states entered the war largely over the issue of

Unrestricted submarine warfare

in 1914 __ was considered an act of war

Mobilization of a nation’s army

Russia was unprepared for war in all of the following ways EXCEPT one

No czar

under the leadership of ___, the bolsheviks became a party dedicated to violent revolution

V.I. Lenin

Germany was especially unhappy with article 231 of the treaty of Versailles because it

Declared that Germany and Austria were responsible for starting the war

what caused the US to join the allies in fighting WWI

The Germans’ used of unrestricted submarine warfare

a nation governed by another nation on behalf of the league of nations

Mandate

a war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields

Total war

fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire, as in WWI

Trench warfare

the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war

Mobilization

a Russian council composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers

Soviets

ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause

Propaganda

payment made to the victors by the vanquished to cover the costs of a war

Reparation

a war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses

War of attrition

a truce or agreement to end fighting

Armistice

military draft

Conscription