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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
An independent Polish state
David Lloyd George
Battle of the Somme (1916)
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
2. 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
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
National Socialism
Anglo-Russian Treaty - 1907
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
3. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne; he married a commoner - which caused a great deal of controversy; assassinated in Sarajevo - Bosnia
Franz Ferdinand
Alsace-Lorraine
Treaty of Versailles
Parliament Act of 1911
4. 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
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
Vladimir Lenin
March on Rome (1920)
5. [needs definition]
Grigori Rasputin
George V (Windsor)
Battle of Masurian Lakes
Young Plan (1929)
6. Leader of the Russian Bolsheviks
Ottoman Empire
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
Vladimir Lenin
Sir Douglas Haig
7. 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)
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
The only one of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson managed to force into the Treaty of Versailles
8. Supreme German Commander on the German Western Front
Ottoman Empire
Eric Ludendorf
Weimar Republic
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
9. 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
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
The removal - so far as possible - of all economic barriers
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
10. The government of Germany from 1919 to 1933
New Innovations in Warfare
Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
Weimar Republic
The Triple Intervention (1895)
11. Leader of Russia's Provisional Government
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
Gavrilo Princip
Alexander Kerensky
Belgium
12. Emperor of Germany; he fired Bismarck
Kronstadt Rebellion
Alvin York
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
Josef Stalin
13. (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.
Rapallo
Josef Stalin
Kulak
Battle of Jutland
14. 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
Alvin York
Nine-Power Pact
Second Dreikaiserbund - 1881
Battle of Verdun (1916)
15. Germany's top aviator and leading ace in the First World War; aka 'The Red Baron'
Eddie Rickenbaker
Manfred von Richthofen
NEP
Lateran Treaty - 1929
16. 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.
Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
Serbia
March on Rome (1920)
Nine-Power Pact
17. Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWI
Treaty of Versailles
Kronstadt Rebellion
Winston Churchill
David Lloyd George
18. French General and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe (except for American forces) in WWI
Serbia
Ferdinand Foch
Nine-Power Pact
Eddie Rickenbaker
19. 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.
An independent Polish state
Kronstadt Rebellion
Pact of Locarno
Great Depression - 1929
20. 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
Eric Ludendorf
Adjustment of all colonial claims
Battle of Masurian Lakes
Kulak
21. 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
Short Range Causes of World War I (Immediate--See Sheet)
New Innovations in Warfare
22. 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
Treaty of Shimonoseki - 1895
Battle of Meuse-Argonne (1918)
An independent Polish state
League of Nations Mandates
23. Signed by the United States - Great Britain - Japan - France - and Italy - this agreement restricted the size of each country's navy
National armaments
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
Battle of Jutland
March 1918 Offensive
24. 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
Zimmerman Telegram
Franz Josef I (Hapsburg)
Meiji Restoration
Alfred von Tirpitz
25. 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
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
Belgium
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
26. 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
San Remo Conference
Reinsurance Treaty - 1887
Second Dreikaiserbund - 1881
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
27. 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.
March on Rome (1920)
Trench Warfare
The removal - so far as possible - of all economic barriers
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
28. President of United States from 1912-1920
Trench Warfare
March on Rome (1920)
Austria-Hungary
Woodrow Wilson
29. Emperor of Austria-Hungary
Young Plan (1929)
Franz Josef I (Hapsburg)
Georges Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson
30. An authorization granted by the League of Nations to a member nation to govern a former German or Turkish colony.
League of Nations Mandates
Young Plan (1929)
Short Range Causes of World War I (Immediate--See Sheet)
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
31. Controversial British commander on Western Front; the force behind the failed offensives during the battles of the Somme and Passchendaele
Adolf Hitler
Sir Douglas Haig
Nine-Power Pact
George V (Windsor)
32. 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)
Austria-Hungary
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
The only one of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson managed to force into the Treaty of Versailles
33. 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
Weimar Republic
Balfour Declaration (1917)
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
Alsace-Lorraine
34. 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
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
Paul von Hindenburg
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Nicholas II (Romanov)
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
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
Russo-Japanese War - 1903-1905
Gavrilo Princip
March on Rome (1920)
36. 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'
Great Depression - 1929
Russo-Japanese War - 1903-1905
Lateran Treaty - 1929
Schlieffen Plan
37. 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.
Dawes Plan (1924)
NEP
League of Nations Mandates
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
38. This event marked the end of fighting in WWI
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
National armaments
Pact of Locarno
Franz Josef I (Hapsburg)
39. 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.
An independent Polish state
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
Young Plan (1929)
March on Rome (1920)
40. Itinerant monk - whose influence over Russia's royal family had a malign effect
Winston Churchill
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
NEP
Grigori Rasputin
41. First Lord of the Admiralty (later demoted) to fight in trenches - after which he was repromoted to his previous position
Nine-Power Pact
Anglo-Russian Treaty - 1907
Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
Winston Churchill
42. 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 -
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
Treaty of Versailles
Young Plan (1929)
March on Rome (1920)
43. 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
Freikorps
Alvin York
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
Battle of Jutland
44. The Last Tsar of Russia
Meiji Restoration
Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
Nicholas II (Romanov)
The Triple Intervention (1895)
45. German commander who was victorious over the Russians at the Battle of Tannenberg
Alexander Kerensky
Paul von Hindenburg
National armaments
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
46. 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
Battle of Jutland
Treaty of Shimonoseki - 1895
Second Dreikaiserbund - 1881
Serbia
47. 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
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
Open covenants of peace
Vladimir Lenin
48. An excellent American rifleman who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for single-handedly capturing a small division of German soldiers
Alfred von Tirpitz
National Socialism
Alvin York
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
49. 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
Treaty of Shimonoseki - 1895
French territory
George V (Windsor)
Reinsurance Treaty - 1887
50. 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.
Short Range Causes of World War I (Immediate--See Sheet)
Alfred von Tirpitz
Lateran Treaty - 1929
Open covenants of peace