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18 Cards in this Set
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Bismarck’s system of alliances for Germany was meant to |
restrain Russia and Austria and to isolate France |
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Britain agreed to the Anglo-French Entente with its traditional enemy, France, because |
it had come to see Germany as a greater threat to its security |
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Which of the following was not a remote cause of World War I? |
Germany’s desire for an international “show down” with Britain and France. |
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Which of the following was true of World War I? |
Contrary to what most people had expected, defen- sive positions were more effective than were offen- sive maneuvers |
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In the spring of 1917, two unrelated events changed the course of the war; they were |
the toppling of the tsarist government in Russia and the entry of the United States into the war |
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Which of the following did not accompany the wartime use of females in the economy? |
A widening of the gap between the wages paid to males and females for their labor |
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World War I is called history’s first “total war” because |
of the massive intervention of government into the war economy in all nations |
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Together, the U.S. entry and the Russian exit from the war a |
might have sped up the end of the war |
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The catastrophic war of 1914to 1918 is called a“World” War because it |
involved many nations outside of Europe for the first time. |
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The most serious complaint against the Paris treaties was that they |
failed to recognize basic international political realities |
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Anglo-French Entente |
The diplomatic agreement of 1904 that ended British-French enmity and was meant as a warning to Germany |
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Anglo-Russian Agreement |
The equivalent to Angelo-French Entente between Britain and Russia;signed in 1907 |
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Central powers |
The alliance of Germany,the Austro-Hugarian,the Ottoman Empire, and Bugaria that fought the Allied Powers in World War I |
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Fourteen points |
The outline for a just peace proposed by Woodraw Wilson in 1918 |
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League of nations |
An international organization founded after World War I maintain peace and promote amity among nations, the United States and not join |
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Reparations questions |
Money and goods that Germany was to pay the victorious Allies after World War I under the versalies Treaity |
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Total war |
The modern form of workforce that first appeared in the twenith century that involved the reciutment of entire cilian populations in addition to the troops in the field,in support of war effect |
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Triple alliances |
A pact concluded in 1882 that United Germany, Austria-Hungary,and Italy against possible attackers the members were called the Central Powers |
