1. the Spark for World War I Was Provided When Gavrilo Princip Assassinated Francis Ferdinand

CHAPTER 34 REVIEW

1. The spark for World War I was provided when Gavrilo Princip assassinated Francis Ferdinand.

2. The term for the idea that people with the same ethnic origins , language, and political ideals had the right to form sovereign states was self-determination.

3. The nationalistic aspirations of subject minorities was most threatening to a state such as Austria-Hungary.

4. Pan_Slavism was actively poromoted by Russia.

5. In 1914 England’s share of the world’s industrial output stood at 14%, roughly the same as Germany.

6. What were the important areas of competition and conflict between England and Germany leading up to World War I?

7. The desire to insure its “place in the sun” was a common complaint of Germany.

8. The members of the Triple Alliance were Germany, Austria and Italy.

9. The Triple Alliance was threatened from the very beginning by the Italian policy of aggrandizement at the expense of Russia and Austria.

10. The French were deeply suspicious of German expansion because they could not forget the humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.

11. Plan XVII was a French plan based on a continuous series of offensive attacks.

12. The military plan which called for an invasion of France through Belgium was called the Schlieffen Plan.

13. Bavrilo Princip was a member of a secreat Serbian society known as the Black Hand.

14. The last tsar of Russia was Nicholas II.

15. Central to the Schlieffen Plan was an lightning invasion through Belgium.

16. The soldiers who marched off in 1914 to fight in World War I were mostly wildly enthusiastic.

17. The German offensive of 1914 was halted at the Marne River.

18. The World War I poet who considered Horace’s line that “ It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country” to be an “old Lie” was Wilfred Owen.

19. The western front in World War I was a bloody stalemate.

20. The massive German assault in 1916 was at Verdun.

21. The Somme was an English assault in 1916 that gained a few thousand yards.

22. In World War I the eastern front was a spectacular German success.

23. The extension of laissez-faire capitalism to its greatest freedom was not a characteristic of the new total war of World War I.

24. What effect did World War I have on the status of women? Women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war.

25. The experience of Joseph Caillaux during World War I demonstrated that governments resorted to the restriction of civil liberties.

26. The German invasion of neutral Belgium is not a reason that explains expansion of World War I in to Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.

27. The Twenty-One Demands were issued by Japan to China.

28. The Japanese entered World War I because of their desire to acquire German colonies in Asia.

29. Togoland was a German African colony conquered by the Allies in World War I.

30. The battle of Gallipoli was a British-directed debacle that cost the lives of Canadian , Australian and New Zealand troops.

31. T.E Lawrence worked with Ibn Ali Hussain to lead the Bedouins of Arabia against Ottoman Rule.

32. The February Revolution of 1917 led to the establishment of a reform-minded provisional government in Russia.

33. The main reason for the failure of the provisional government in Russia in 1917 was its inablitiy to satisfy popular demands for an end to the war.

34 . The main difference between the philosophies of Marx and Lenin was Lenin’s belief that the working class was incapable of developing revolutionary consciousness on its own.

35. The most famous motto of the Russian Revolution was “Peace, Land and Bread”

36. The treaty of Brest Litovsk ended Russia’s involvement in World War I

37. The key factor in the United States decision to enter World War I was Germany’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.

38. One of the major problems of the Paris peace negotiations that led to the Treaty of Verrsailles was Russia’s absence from the negotioations.

39. Woodrow Wilson agreed to many harsh stipulations to the Rreaty of Versailles in return for the creation of the League of Nations.

40. The Mandate System angered the Arab world because it was little more than a glorified form of imperialism.