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CLEP Western Civilization: WW 1 - Early 20th century
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1. A series of Anglo-French assaults on German entrenchments along the river Somme. A minimal amount of ground was gained at the cost of 1.12 million casualties in total
Friedrich Ebert
National armaments
Battle of the Somme (1916)
First Battle of the Marne (1914)
2. Weapons: flamethrower - machine gun - poison gas - Artillery vehicles: tanks - aircraft - U-boat
New Innovations in Warfare
Georges Clemenceau
The Triple Intervention (1895)
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
3. Leader of Russia's Provisional Government
Alexander Kerensky
Franz Josef I (Hapsburg)
Battle of Jutland
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
4. Following the Brest-Litovsk Treaty - Berlin launched an enormous assault in the west which came within 20 miles of capturing Paris before running out of steam
March 1918 Offensive
Battle of the Somme (1916)
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
Franz Ferdinand
5. Commanding General of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe
6. 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
Billy Mitchell
March on Rome (1920)
Alexander Kerensky
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
7. Supreme German Commander on the German Western Front
Battle of Meuse-Argonne (1918)
Eric Ludendorf
Josef Stalin
Eddie Rickenbaker
8. The failed Allied invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula of Turkey along the Dardanelles strait that followed an unsuccessful attempt by the Royal Navy to breach Constantinople
George V (Windsor)
Battle of Gallipoli
Long Range Causes of World War I (Atmospherics--See Sheet)
Rapallo
9. 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
Vladimir Lenin
The only one of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson managed to force into the Treaty of Versailles
Leon Trotsky
Kulak
10. Itinerant monk - whose influence over Russia's royal family had a malign effect
Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas
Grigori Rasputin
National armaments
Nicholas II (Romanov)
11. The government of Germany from 1919 to 1933
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
Battle of Gallipoli
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
Weimar Republic
12. 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 -
An independent Polish state
Eric Ludendorf
League of Nations Mandates
The only one of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson managed to force into the Treaty of Versailles
13. Series of agreements whereby Germany - France - Belgium - Great Britain - and Italy mutually guaranteed peace in western Europe. The treaties were initialed at Locarno - Switz. - on October 16 and signed in London on December 1.
Trench Warfare
Pact of Locarno
Alexander Kerensky
Balfour Declaration (1917)
14. The first of its kind of battleship in the Royal Navy - named after this new - deadly model
Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
Friedrich Ebert
H.M.S. Dreadnought
Open covenants of peace
15. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: The peoples of ____________ - whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured - should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development.
Battle of Masurian Lakes
National armaments
Austria-Hungary
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
16. 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
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
Battle of Masurian Lakes
Rapallo
Sir Douglas Haig
17. 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'
Short Range Causes of World War I (Immediate--See Sheet)
Anglo-Russian Treaty - 1907
Alsace-Lorraine
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
18. 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
Meiji Restoration
Belgium
Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
Battle of Masurian Lakes
19. Provided that no territorial changes should take place in the Balkans without prior agreement and that Austria could annex Bosnia and Hercegovina when it wished; in the event of war between one party and a great power not party to the treaty - the ot
March 1918 Offensive
Second Dreikaiserbund - 1881
Alexander Kerensky
Open covenants of peace
20. 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
Reinsurance Treaty - 1887
Gavrilo Princip
Freikorps
H.M.S. Dreadnought
21. 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)
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
NEP
An independent Polish state
22. Emperor of Austria-Hungary
Franz Josef I (Hapsburg)
Serbia
Georges Clemenceau
Rapallo
23. 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
Kulak
Russian territory
Reinsurance Treaty - 1887
San Remo Conference
24. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: A _________________ should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
Alvin York
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
French territory
25. This event marked the end of fighting in WWI
Belgium
H.M.S. Dreadnought
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
Battle of Jutland
26. King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 - the second son of Prince Albert Edward - later King Edward VII
George V (Windsor)
The Czech Legion
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
Weimar Republic
27. The Last Tsar of Russia
Battle of the Somme (1916)
Nicholas II (Romanov)
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
National armaments
28. Leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor (Kanzler) and Fuhrer of Germany (1933-45)
Adolf Hitler
Parliament Act of 1911
Eddie Rickenbaker
Sir Douglas Haig
29. 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
Rapallo
The Triple Intervention (1895)
NEP
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
30. Act passed Aug. 10 - 1911 - in the British Parliament which deprived the House of Lords of its absolute power of veto on legislation.
Parliament Act of 1911
The only one of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson managed to force into the Treaty of Versailles
Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
Gavrilo Princip
31. Signed by the United States - Great Britain - Japan - France - and Italy - this agreement restricted the size of each country's navy
Open covenants of peace
David Lloyd George
The removal - so far as possible - of all economic barriers
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
32. German commander who was victorious over the Russians at the Battle of Tannenberg
Spanish-American War
George V (Windsor)
March 1918 Offensive
Paul von Hindenburg
33. Prime Minister of France during WWI
Georges Clemenceau
Battle of Gallipoli
Alfred von Tirpitz
Billy Mitchell
34. 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.
Alfred von Tirpitz
Ferdinand Foch
Paul von Hindenburg
Alvin York
35. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne; he married a commoner - which caused a great deal of controversy; assassinated in Sarajevo - Bosnia
Winston Churchill
Eric Ludendorf
Pact of Locarno
Franz Ferdinand
36. 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 -
The Triple Intervention (1895)
Leon Trotsky
Friedrich Ebert
Alsace-Lorraine
37. 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)
Belgium
Reinsurance Treaty - 1887
Young Plan (1929)
The only one of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson managed to force into the Treaty of Versailles
38. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: _________________ and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Russian territory
Battle of Jutland
Reinsurance Treaty - 1887
The removal - so far as possible - of all economic barriers
39. 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)
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
An independent Polish state
National armaments
40. 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
Meiji Restoration
Kronstadt Rebellion
Parliament Act of 1911
Adjustment of all colonial claims
41. 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
The Czech Legion
Alvin York
First Battle of the Marne (1914)
March on Rome (1920)
42. 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
French territory
Belgium
David Lloyd George
Sir Douglas Haig
43. Germany's top aviator and leading ace in the First World War; aka 'The Red Baron'
Manfred von Richthofen
Eric Ludendorf
The removal - so far as possible - of all economic barriers
Lateran Treaty - 1929
44. The originally-French territories that were annexed by Germans
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
Alsace-Lorraine
Eric Ludendorf
Spanish-American War
45. 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
Nine-Power Pact
Franz Josef I (Hapsburg)
March 1918 Offensive
Woodrow Wilson
46. Franco-German dispute over control of the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine - Disintegration of European Turkey - Bosnian Crisis of 1908 - The fragility of European politics
David Lloyd George
League of Nations Mandates
Short Range Causes of World War I (Immediate--See Sheet)
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
47. Series of relentless German assaults on a network of French forts astride the road to Paris - designed to bleed the French Army white. Although a tactical French victory - the casualties were horrendous (over 700 -000)
Treaty of Shimonoseki - 1895
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
League of Nations Mandates
Battle of Verdun (1916)
48. A political and military pact that developed between France and Russia from friendly contacts in 1891 to a secret treaty in 1894; it became one of the basic European alignments of the pre-World War I era
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
Adjustment of all colonial claims
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
Serbia
49. 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
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
Adjustment of all colonial claims
George V (Windsor)
Alexander Kerensky
50. 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.
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
March on Rome (1920)
Parliament Act of 1911
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905