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CLEP Western Civilization: WW 1 - Early 20th century

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1. 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.






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






3. Peace settlement signed at Kittery - Maine - U.S. - ending the Russo-Japanese War. According to the terms of the treaty - mediated by Theodore Roosevelt - the defeated Russians recognized Japan as the dominant power in Korea and turned over their lea






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






5. President of United States from 1912-1920






6. 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






7. Supreme German Commander on the German Western Front






8. [needs definition]






9. This event marked the end of fighting in WWI






10. Statement of British support for 'the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.' It was made in a letter from the British foreign secretary






11. 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.






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






13. Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWI






14. 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'






15. 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 -






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. The Last Tsar of Russia






19. Commanding General of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe


20. 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.






21. Enormous but inconclusive naval confrontation between the German and British navies in the North Sea. 25 ships and 8 -000 sailors were lost with the British suffering the worst casualties; German fleet returned to its anchorage and never left port ag






22. The Treaty that included the terms of surrender for the Germans after WWI - which the United States Congress refused to sign






23. Leader of the Russian Bolsheviks






24. 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






25. 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






26. Prime Minister of France during WWI






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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 -






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






31. Second renegotiation of Germany's World War I reparation payments. A new committee - chaired by the American Owen D. Young - met in Paris on Feb. 11 - 1929 - to revise the Dawes Plan of 1924. Its report (June 7 - 1929) - accepted with minor changes -






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






33. 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






34. American Air Force Ace with (26 kills)






35. 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






36. Controversial British commander on Western Front; the force behind the failed offensives during the battles of the Somme and Passchendaele






37. 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






38. 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.






39. Itinerant monk - whose influence over Russia's royal family had a malign effect






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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-






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






44. 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






45. 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






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






47. 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






48. Emperor of Germany; he fired Bismarck






49. 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.






50. 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)