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Who was the steel manufacturer that gave money to build the Peace Palace in the Netherlands? |
The alliances called "Bismarck's System" were an attempt by the German chancellor to isolate |
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The immediate cause of the entrance of Britain into World War I was |
The Triple Alliance included all of the following countries except |
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The Schlieffen Plan was designed to |
The Entente Cordiale was a "friendly understanding" between France and |
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Q. The entrance of the Italians into the war was important because
A. the Germans and Austrians were forced to fight on another front. |
Q. Russia was defeated in World War I for all of the following reasons accept
A. her troops were crushed by a superior Austro-Hungarian force on the Rhine River. |
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Why did Germany agree to sign the armistice to end World War I? |
The sinking of the Louisiana was important because? |
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Which of the following was one of the results of the Treaty of Versailles? |
Which is not one of the reasons the United States entered World War I? |
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By signing the Locarno Act, Germany.. |
What country was forbidden Anschluss with Germany after World War I? |
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Which American banker loaned money to Germany after the war? |
Austria sent Serbia a list of demands threatening war if they were not accepted. What is such a statement called? |
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What are the long, slender German airships similar to modern blimps called? |
Name the area between the Adriatic and Black Seas that was called the "powder keg of Europe" before World War. |
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What term means "to make a country's troops ready for battle?" |
Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the Allies forced Germany to pay for war damages. What were these payments called? |
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What phrase describes the sinking of all ships, armed or not, that carried supplies to the Allies? |
What clause in a treaty placed the entire blame for the war upon Germany? |
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What term means "a temporary cessation of fighting"? |
What term means "the elimination of weapons or arms"? |
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What were the territories technically under the control of the League of Nations but actually held the various Allied countries called? |
Who was the czar of Russia who abdicated his throne? |
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Who established a peace prize to further world peace? |
Who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I? |
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Who established a peace prize to further world peace? |
Who was chief of the Allied armies in France? |
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secret treaty signed between Germany and Russia |
Wilson's peace plan for ending World War I |
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took Russia out of World War I |
dismantled the Ottoman Empire |
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signed between Germany and the Allies in Paris |
organization designed to discuss differences rather than to fight over them |
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treaty signed by Austria recognizing Hungary's independence |
an attempt to disarm the great naval powers in the early 1920's |
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nonaggression treaty signed by Germany, Belgium, and France in 1925 |
treaty renouncing war "as an instrument of...national policy" |
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Kaiser of Germany who fled to Holland |
Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated in Sarajevo |
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German general who defeated Russia in several battles |
French representative at the Paris Peace Conference |
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prime minister of Britain who attended the Paris Peace conference |
T/F Bismark's System was established to isolate Russia diplomatically. |
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During World War I the governments of the countries involved failed to control the economic life of their countries. |
Using the Schlieffen Plan, Germany attacked France on the western front first. |
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The Locarno Pact outlawed the use of war. |
Although the United States initiated the League of Nations, it did not join the League. |
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Essay: List and briefly discuss the underlying causes of World War I. |
List and briefly discuss the reasons for the failure of the League of Nations to settle crises among powerful nations. |
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Map Labels: Great Britain, France, Baltic Sea, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Black Sea, Serbia, Ottoman Empire, North Sea, Italy, Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Russian Empire, Greece, Lusitania sunk |
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