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CLEP Western Civilization: WW 1 - Early 20th century
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1. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: A free - open-minded - and absolutely impartial ________________ - based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests o
Billy Mitchell
Kronstadt Rebellion
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Adjustment of all colonial claims
2. Huge German victory over invading Russian armies inn East Prussia - inflicting 78 -000 casualties at a cost of 5 -000. Russians began retreat after this battle
Franz Ferdinand
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
Anglo-Russian Treaty - 1907
New Innovations in Warfare
3. The Prussian strategy to attack France by going through Belgium - march from the west of Paris towards the French rear - and then crushing the French forces in the 'Nutcracker'
Treaty of Versailles
Schlieffen Plan
Trench Warfare
Open covenants of peace
4. Leader of the Russian Bolsheviks
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
Alexander Kerensky
Vladimir Lenin
March 1918 Offensive
5. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: A _________________ should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
Spanish-American War
Ottoman Empire
Balfour Declaration (1917)
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
6. The battle in which the French army attacked the outside flank of the German forces that were marching near the east side of Paris toward Alsace-Lorraine
First Battle of the Marne (1914)
Battle of Gallipoli
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
Open covenants of peace
7. Adolf Hitler's attempt to start an insurrection in Germany against the Weimar Republic on Nov. 8-9 - 1923. Hitler and his small Nazi Party associated themselves with General Erich Ludendorff - a right-wing German military leader of World War I
Zimmerman Telegram
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
Alvin York
Eric Ludendorf
8. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: _______ - the whole world will agree - must be evacuated and restored - without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other si
Battle of Meuse-Argonne (1918)
Nine-Power Pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
Belgium
9. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: Rumania - Serbia - and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; ______ accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states
Winston Churchill
Serbia
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
Parliament Act of 1911
10. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: ____________ - openly arrived at - after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
Open covenants of peace
Leon Trotsky
Rapallo
Battle of Jutland
11. Prime Minister of France during WWI
Young Plan (1929)
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
Georges Clemenceau
Manfred von Richthofen
12. Pact in which Britain and Russia settled their colonial disputes in Persia - Afghanistan - and Tibet. It delineated spheres of influence in Persia - stipulated that neither country would interfere in Tibet's internal affairs - and recognized Britain'
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
Franz Ferdinand
Anglo-Russian Treaty - 1907
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
13. An authorization granted by the League of Nations to a member nation to govern a former German or Turkish colony.
League of Nations Mandates
Great Depression - 1929
Adjustment of all colonial claims
Battle of Jutland
14. Worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world - sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions - macroeconomic pol
Great Depression - 1929
Manfred von Richthofen
National armaments
Schlieffen Plan
15. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. (Creation of the League of Nations)
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Georges Clemenceau
The only one of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson managed to force into the Treaty of Versailles
New Innovations in Warfare
16. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne; he married a commoner - which caused a great deal of controversy; assassinated in Sarajevo - Bosnia
Franz Ferdinand
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
Schlieffen Plan
Friedrich Ebert
17. Leader of Russia's Provisional Government
Friedrich Ebert
Alexander Kerensky
Woodrow Wilson
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
18. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: Adequate guarantees given and taken that ___________ will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
Reinsurance Treaty - 1887
Billy Mitchell
National armaments
19. German commander who was victorious over the Russians at the Battle of Tannenberg
Leon Trotsky
The Czech Legion
Paul von Hindenburg
Russo-Japanese War - 1903-1905
20. Multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. It was the most grandiose of a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I.
Lateran Treaty - 1929
Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
The only one of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson managed to force into the Treaty of Versailles
21. The political revolution that brought about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and returned control of the country to direct imperial rule under the emperor Meiji - beginning an era of major political - economic - and social change
Long Range Causes of World War I (Atmospherics--See Sheet)
Meiji Restoration
Franz Josef I (Hapsburg)
Treaty of Shimonoseki - 1895
22. U.S. Army officer who early advocated a separate U.S. air force and greater preparedness in military aviation. He was court-martialed for his outspoken views and did not live to see the fulfillment during World War II of many of his prophecies: strat
Paul von Hindenburg
Battle of Masurian Lakes
Billy Mitchell
Young Plan (1929)
23. Secret convention made during WWI between Great Britain and France - with the assent of imperial Russia - for the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. It led to the division of Turkish-held Syria - Iraq - Lebanon - and Palestine into various French-
Adjustment of all colonial claims
Trench Warfare
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
Battle of Gallipoli
24. The insurrection by which Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy in late October 1922. The March marked the beginning of fascist rule and meant the doom of the preceding parliamentary regimes of socialists and liberals.
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
Friedrich Ebert
March on Rome (1920)
Second Dreikaiserbund - 1881
25. Supreme German Commander on the German Western Front
John 'Black Jack' Pershing
Kulak
Eric Ludendorf
Paul von Hindenburg
26. Secured by Russia - France - and Germany - it required Japan to retrocede the South Manchurian Peninsula to China in return for an additional indemnity of 30 -000 -000 Taels
The Triple Intervention (1895)
Alexander Kerensky
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Meiji Restoration
27. Military conflict in which a victorious Japan forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in Korea; The Japanese became the first Asian power in modern times to defeat a European power.
Russo-Japanese War - 1903-1905
Adjustment of all colonial claims
New Innovations in Warfare
Lateran Treaty - 1929
28. Alliance that bound Britain and Japan to assist one another in safeguarding their respective interests in China and Korea. Directed against Russian expansionism in the Far East - it was a cornerstone of British and Japanese policy in Asia until after
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
Anglo-Russian Treaty - 1907
Trench Warfare
Leon Trotsky
29. An intercepted German message that helped draw the United States into World War I (1914-1918). The message was an attempt by Germany to persuade Mexico to go to war against the United States
Alsace-Lorraine
Zimmerman Telegram
Open covenants of peace
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
30. American offensive in coordination with British and French assaults along the German line which eventually broke through - resulting in the immediate request for peace by Germany
Battle of Meuse-Argonne (1918)
Kronstadt Rebellion
Rapallo
Freikorps
31. A communist theorist and agitator - a leader in Russia's October Revolution in 1917 - and later the commissar of foreign affairs and of war in the Soviet Union;... In the struggle for power after Lenin's death - Stalin emerged as victor - and this m
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
Leon Trotsky
Georges Clemenceau
Billy Mitchell
32. President of United States from 1912-1920
Woodrow Wilson
Freikorps
Zimmerman Telegram
Eddie Rickenbaker
33. International meeting convened at San Remo - on the Italian Riviera - to decide the future of the former territories of the Ottoman Turkish Empire; the prime ministers of Great Britain - France - and Italy - and the representatives of Japan - Greece
George V (Windsor)
Josef Stalin
San Remo Conference
First Battle of the Marne (1914)
34. Any of several private paramilitary groups that first appeared in December 1918 in the wake of Germany's defeat in World War I.
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Masurian Lakes
Freikorps
35. An excellent American rifleman who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for single-handedly capturing a small division of German soldiers
Battle of Masurian Lakes
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Vladimir Lenin
Alvin York
36. International conference called by the United States to limit the naval arms race and to work out security agreements in the Pacific area. Held in D.C. - the conference resulted in the drafting and signing of several major and minor treaty agreements
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Leon Trotsky
Battle of Meuse-Argonne (1918)
Sir Douglas Haig
37. The group of Czechs who had been fighting on the side of Russia; they were given the freedom to leave Russia - but violent incidents that occurred during the evacuation led the Bolsheviks to order the legion's disarmament. The legionnaires then rebel
Battle of Meuse-Argonne (1918)
The Czech Legion
Gavrilo Princip
Battle of the Somme (1916)
38. The Last Tsar of Russia
Nicholas II (Romanov)
David Lloyd George
Belgium
Pact of Locarno
39. [needs definition]
Eddie Rickenbaker
Schlieffen Plan
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
Battle of Masurian Lakes
40. The first of its kind of battleship in the Royal Navy - named after this new - deadly model
Austria-Hungary
Sir Douglas Haig
H.M.S. Dreadnought
The Triple Intervention (1895)
41. A series of letters exchanged during World War I - between Husayn ibn 'Ali - emir of Mecca - and Sir Henry McMahon - the British high commissioner in Egypt. In general terms - the correspondence effectively traded British support of an independent Ar
Russo-Japanese War - 1903-1905
Lateran Treaty - 1929
Leon Trotsky
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
42. The war that broke out after the explosion of the USS Maine was blamed on the Spanish forces in Cuba
Reinsurance Treaty - 1887
Spanish-American War
New Innovations in Warfare
Trench Warfare
43. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: All ____________ should be freed and the invaded portions restored - and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine - which has unsettled the peace of
Freikorps
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
French territory
Kulak
44. This event marked the end of fighting in WWI
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
Young Plan (1929)
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
45. Militarism - Navalism - Nationalism - Alliance System - Political instability - Imperialism
Friedrich Ebert
Long Range Causes of World War I (Atmospherics--See Sheet)
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Eddie Rickenbaker
46. Signed by Benito Mussolini for the Italian government and by cardinal secretary of state Pietro Gasparri for the papacy and confirmed by the Italian constitution of 1948 - this treaty gave the papacy control of the Vatican City in exchange for recogn
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
David Lloyd George
Meiji Restoration
Lateran Treaty - 1929
47. First Lord of the Admiralty (later demoted) to fight in trenches - after which he was repromoted to his previous position
Winston Churchill
Alvin York
The only one of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson managed to force into the Treaty of Versailles
Young Plan (1929)
48. Naval engagement of the Russo-Japanese War - the final - crushing defeat of the Russian navy in that conflict
Rapallo
Reinsurance Treaty - 1887
The Triple Intervention (1895)
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
49. Emperor of Germany; he fired Bismarck
Second Dreikaiserbund - 1881
Serbia
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
50. American Air Force Ace with (26 kills)
Great Depression - 1929
Eddie Rickenbaker
Battle of the Somme (1916)
Winston Churchill