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CLEP Western Civilization: WW 1 - Early 20th century
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1. 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 -
Lateran Treaty - 1929
Spanish-American War
San Remo Conference
Young Plan (1929)
2. 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
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
Franz Ferdinand
Nine-Power Pact
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
3. 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
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
Alvin York
4. 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
March on Rome (1920)
Kulak
George V (Windsor)
Adjustment of all colonial claims
5. 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
Sir Douglas Haig
Battle of the Somme (1916)
Young Plan (1929)
6. German commander who was victorious over the Russians at the Battle of Tannenberg
The Triple Intervention (1895)
The removal - so far as possible - of all economic barriers
Serbia
Paul von Hindenburg
7. 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
Eddie Rickenbaker
Treaty of Shimonoseki - 1895
Schlieffen Plan
Alexander Kerensky
8. 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
H.M.S. Dreadnought
National armaments
Leon Trotsky
Josef Stalin
9. 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
Belgium
Alsace-Lorraine
Lateran Treaty - 1929
George V (Windsor)
10. 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
Battle of Meuse-Argonne (1918)
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
Nine-Power Pact
Rapallo
11. The assassin of Franz Ferdinand
Kulak
Gavrilo Princip
Georges Clemenceau
Grigori Rasputin
12. American Air Force Ace with (26 kills)
Eddie Rickenbaker
George V (Windsor)
Manfred von Richthofen
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
13. 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
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
New Innovations in Warfare
Battle of Meuse-Argonne (1918)
14. 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
Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas
Manfred von Richthofen
San Remo Conference
The Czech Legion
15. The originally-French territories that were annexed by Germans
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
Long Range Causes of World War I (Atmospherics--See Sheet)
Dawes Plan (1924)
Alsace-Lorraine
16. An authorization granted by the League of Nations to a member nation to govern a former German or Turkish colony.
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
Ottoman Empire
League of Nations Mandates
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
17. (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.
Kulak
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
Alsace-Lorraine
Friedrich Ebert
18. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: A _________________ should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
National armaments
Friedrich Ebert
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
19. 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
Battle of Gallipoli
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Leon Trotsky
Balfour Declaration (1917)
20. The Last Tsar of Russia
Nicholas II (Romanov)
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
Alvin York
Eric Ludendorf
21. This event marked the end of fighting in WWI
Long Range Causes of World War I (Atmospherics--See Sheet)
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
Alsace-Lorraine
Anglo-Russian Treaty - 1907
22. Fighting behind rows of trenches - mines - and barbed wire: the cost in lives was staggering and the gains in territory minimal
Pact of Locarno
Weimar Republic
Trench Warfare
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
23. 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
Gavrilo Princip
Alfred von Tirpitz
Parliament Act of 1911
The Triple Intervention (1895)
24. Leader of the Russian Bolsheviks
Schlieffen Plan
Austria-Hungary
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
Vladimir Lenin
25. The war that broke out after the explosion of the USS Maine was blamed on the Spanish forces in Cuba
George V (Windsor)
Battle of Gallipoli
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
Spanish-American War
26. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne; he married a commoner - which caused a great deal of controversy; assassinated in Sarajevo - Bosnia
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
Adolf Hitler
Eddie Rickenbaker
Franz Ferdinand
27. 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
Leon Trotsky
Kulak
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
28. 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
Battle of Masurian Lakes
Schlieffen Plan
Ferdinand Foch
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
29. 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.
March on Rome (1920)
Ottoman Empire
Ferdinand Foch
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
30. Secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-53) and premier of the Soviet state (1941-53) - who for a quarter of a century dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union and transformed it into a major world power
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
Belgium
Josef Stalin
31. 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
Russian territory
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
New Innovations in Warfare
Dawes Plan (1924)
32. 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.
Russo-Japanese War - 1903-1905
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
March 1918 Offensive
Pact of Locarno
33. 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
Paul von Hindenburg
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
Schlieffen Plan
Young Plan (1929)
34. 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.
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
National Socialism
New Innovations in Warfare
Young Plan (1929)
35. 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
New Innovations in Warfare
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
Rapallo
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
36. 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.
Great Depression - 1929
Franz Ferdinand
Pact of Locarno
Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
37. 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
Battle of Verdun (1916)
Battle of Jutland
Josef Stalin
Leon Trotsky
38. Emperor of Austria-Hungary
Balfour Declaration (1917)
Battle of Verdun (1916)
Franz Josef I (Hapsburg)
Sir Douglas Haig
39. 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.
Second Dreikaiserbund - 1881
The removal - so far as possible - of all economic barriers
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
Treaty of Versailles
40. Supreme German Commander on the German Western Front
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
Eric Ludendorf
Parliament Act of 1911
French territory
41. 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
Vladimir Lenin
Meiji Restoration
Battle of Gallipoli
Balfour Declaration (1917)
42. 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
Friedrich Ebert
Open covenants of peace
The Triple Intervention (1895)
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
43. 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.
NEP
Freikorps
Grigori Rasputin
Pact of Locarno
44. 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 -
Battle of Meuse-Argonne (1918)
An independent Polish state
Weimar Republic
Adjustment of all colonial claims
45. 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
Friedrich Ebert
Leon Trotsky
Serbia
Battle of Masurian Lakes
46. 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.
Ferdinand Foch
Battle of the Somme (1916)
Alsace-Lorraine
National armaments
47. The Treaty that included the terms of surrender for the Germans after WWI - which the United States Congress refused to sign
H.M.S. Dreadnought
Sir Douglas Haig
Treaty of Versailles
March 1918 Offensive
48. 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
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas
Franz Josef I (Hapsburg)
Dawes Plan (1924)
49. 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
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
Zimmerman Telegram
Lateran Treaty - 1929
50. 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
The Czech Legion
Open covenants of peace
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)