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CLEP Western Civilization: WW 1 - Early 20th century

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1. Franco-German dispute over control of the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine - Disintegration of European Turkey - Bosnian Crisis of 1908 - The fragility of European politics






2. The economic policy of the government of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1928 - representing a temporary retreat from its previous policy of extreme centralization and doctrinaire socialism.






3. (Russian: 'fist'): a wealthy or prosperous peasant - generally characterized as one who owned a relatively large farm and several head of cattle and horses and who was financially capable of employing hired labour and leasing land.






4. 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






5. Totalitarian movement led by Adolf Hitler as head of the Nazi Party in Germany. It shared many elements with Italian fascism - but it was far more extreme both in its ideas and in its practice.






6. 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.






7. Militarism - Navalism - Nationalism - Alliance System - Political instability - Imperialism






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






9. Signed by the United States - Great Britain - Japan - France - Italy - the Netherlands - Portugal - Belgium - and China - this agreement affirmed China's sovereignty - independence - and territorial integrity and gave all nations the right to do busi






10. French General and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe (except for American forces) in WWI






11. American Air Force Ace with (26 kills)






12. King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 - the second son of Prince Albert Edward - later King Edward VII






13. President of United States from 1912-1920






14. Leader of Russia's Provisional Government






15. Weapons: flamethrower - machine gun - poison gas - Artillery vehicles: tanks - aircraft - U-boat






16. Act passed Aug. 10 - 1911 - in the British Parliament which deprived the House of Lords of its absolute power of veto on legislation.






17. German admiral - the chief builder of the German Navy in the 17 years preceding World War I and a dominant personality of the emperor William II's reign.






18. Fighting behind rows of trenches - mines - and barbed wire: the cost in lives was staggering and the gains in territory minimal






19. 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.






20. Arrangement for Germany's payment of reparations after World War I. On the initiative of the British and U.S. governments - a committee of experts - presided over by an American financier - Charles G. Dawes - produced a report on the question of Germ






21. 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






22. A secret agreement between Germany and Russia arranged by Otto von Bismarck. The treaty provided that each party would remain neutral if the other became involved in a war with a third great power and that this would not apply if Germany attacked Fra






23. 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






24. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: The evacuation of all ____________ and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining






25. Signed by the United States - Great Britain - Japan - France - and Italy - this agreement restricted the size of each country's navy






26. Naval engagement of the Russo-Japanese War - the final - crushing defeat of the Russian navy in that conflict






27. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne; he married a commoner - which caused a great deal of controversy; assassinated in Sarajevo - Bosnia






28. Any of several private paramilitary groups that first appeared in December 1918 in the wake of Germany's defeat in World War I.






29. Leader of the Russian Bolsheviks






30. 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






31. The agreement that concluded the first Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) - which ended in China's defeat; China had to recognize the independence of Korea - to cede Taiwan - the Pescadores Islands - and the South Manchurian Peninsula to Japan; to pay an in






32. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: ______________________ - outside territorial waters - alike in peace and in war - except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of in






33. Emperor of Germany; he fired Bismarck






34. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: The Turkish portions of the present ______________ should be assured a secure sovereignty - but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted






35. 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






36. Leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor (Kanzler) and Fuhrer of Germany (1933-45)






37. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: ____________________ should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations - which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea -






38. 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






39. Defeat of the Spanish Pacific fleet by the U.S. Navy - resulting in the fall of the Philippines and contributing to the final U.S. victory in the Spanish-American War






40. 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-






41. Negotiated by Germany's Walther Rathenau and the Soviet Union's Georgy V. Chicherin - it reestablished normal relations between the two nations. The nations agreed to cancel all financial claims against each other - and the treaty strengthened their






42. Leader of the Social Democratic movement in Germany and a moderate socialist - who was a leader in bringing about the constitution of the Weimar Republic -






43. 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






44. [needs definition]






45. One of several major internal uprisings against Soviet rule in Russia after the Civil War (1918-20) - conducted by sailors from the Kronshtadt naval base.






46. Emperor of Austria-Hungary






47. A continuation of the Philippine Revolution against Spanish rule. The Treaty of Paris (1898) transferred Philippine sovereignty from Spain to the United States but was not recognized by Filipino leaders - whose troops were in actual control of the en






48. 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






49. German commander who was victorious over the Russians at the Battle of Tannenberg






50. 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.