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CLEP Western Civilization: WW 1 - Early 20th century
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1. 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.
The Czech Legion
Rapallo
Adolf Hitler
National armaments
2. American offensive in coordination with British and French assaults along the German line which eventually broke through - resulting in the immediate request for peace by Germany
Nine-Power Pact
Battle of Meuse-Argonne (1918)
Winston Churchill
George V (Windsor)
3. Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWI
Ottoman Empire
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
David Lloyd George
Alvin York
4. 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)
Ottoman Empire
Austria-Hungary
Battle of Verdun (1916)
National Socialism
5. Naval engagement of the Russo-Japanese War - the final - crushing defeat of the Russian navy in that conflict
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
Grigori Rasputin
Russian territory
Treaty of Versailles
6. 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
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
The removal - so far as possible - of all economic barriers
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Belgium
7. 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
Weimar Republic
Manfred von Richthofen
The Triple Intervention (1895)
Dawes Plan (1924)
8. Worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world - sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions - macroeconomic pol
Zimmerman Telegram
Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas
Great Depression - 1929
Battle of Verdun (1916)
9. 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.
Ottoman Empire
Short Range Causes of World War I (Immediate--See Sheet)
First Battle of the Marne (1914)
The removal - so far as possible - of all economic barriers
10. 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)
Reinsurance Treaty - 1887
Franz Ferdinand
National armaments
11. 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
Austria-Hungary
Great Depression - 1929
The removal - so far as possible - of all economic barriers
French territory
12. The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne; he married a commoner - which caused a great deal of controversy; assassinated in Sarajevo - Bosnia
Franz Ferdinand
New Innovations in Warfare
Nine-Power Pact
Open covenants of peace
13. Germany's top aviator and leading ace in the First World War; aka 'The Red Baron'
H.M.S. Dreadnought
Vladimir Lenin
Kronstadt Rebellion
Manfred von Richthofen
14. 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
Freikorps
Nicholas II (Romanov)
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
15. 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
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
National armaments
Battle of Gallipoli
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
16. Emperor of Austria-Hungary
Kulak
Parliament Act of 1911
Franz Josef I (Hapsburg)
Sir Douglas Haig
17. 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
Winston Churchill
Meiji Restoration
Josef Stalin
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
18. Leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor (Kanzler) and Fuhrer of Germany (1933-45)
Adolf Hitler
Eric Ludendorf
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
Sir Douglas Haig
19. The assassin of Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
Manfred von Richthofen
The removal - so far as possible - of all economic barriers
20. First Lord of the Admiralty (later demoted) to fight in trenches - after which he was repromoted to his previous position
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
Winston Churchill
Freikorps
21. Signed by the United States - Great Britain - Japan - France - and Italy - this agreement restricted the size of each country's navy
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
The Czech Legion
Winston Churchill
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
22. 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.
Young Plan (1929)
Winston Churchill
Pact of Locarno
Franz Ferdinand
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
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
The Triple Intervention (1895)
24. 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-
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
Meiji Restoration
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
25. Leader of Russia's Provisional Government
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
Paul von Hindenburg
Gavrilo Princip
Alexander Kerensky
26. 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.
French territory
March 1918 Offensive
NEP
Schlieffen Plan
27. 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
Eric Ludendorf
Billy Mitchell
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
28. Any of several private paramilitary groups that first appeared in December 1918 in the wake of Germany's defeat in World War I.
Freikorps
Meiji Restoration
Battle of the Somme (1916)
Zimmerman Telegram
29. 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 Masurian Lakes
Rapallo
Josef Stalin
Nine-Power Pact
30. 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
David Lloyd George
Spanish-American War
Grigori Rasputin
Zimmerman Telegram
31. 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
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Gavrilo Princip
Ottoman Empire
Battle of Gallipoli
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)
The only one of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson managed to force into the Treaty of Versailles
Adjustment of all colonial claims
Battle of Gallipoli
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
33. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: A _________________ should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
George V (Windsor)
Russo-Japanese War - 1903-1905
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
34. 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.
Russo-Japanese War - 1903-1905
Balfour Declaration (1917)
Grigori Rasputin
Billy Mitchell
35. Weapons: flamethrower - machine gun - poison gas - Artillery vehicles: tanks - aircraft - U-boat
New Innovations in Warfare
Nine-Power Pact
Zimmerman Telegram
Ottoman Empire
36. 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.
Austria-Hungary
Josef Stalin
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Rapallo
37. 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.
Friedrich Ebert
League of Nations Mandates
National Socialism
Russian territory
38. 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)
Short Range Causes of World War I (Immediate--See Sheet)
Meiji Restoration
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
39. 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
Serbia
Russian territory
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
Vladimir Lenin
40. [needs definition]
Eddie Rickenbaker
Open covenants of peace
Battle of Verdun (1916)
Battle of Masurian Lakes
41. 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
Great Depression - 1929
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Anglo-Russian Treaty - 1907
Schlieffen Plan
42. Fighting behind rows of trenches - mines - and barbed wire: the cost in lives was staggering and the gains in territory minimal
Young Plan (1929)
Trench Warfare
Adolf Hitler
Battle of Gallipoli
43. 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
Treaty of Versailles
Eric Ludendorf
Battle of Jutland
Rapallo
44. 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
French territory
Weimar Republic
Alexander Kerensky
45. Emperor of Germany; he fired Bismarck
Russo-Japanese War - 1903-1905
Long Range Causes of World War I (Atmospherics--See Sheet)
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
H.M.S. Dreadnought
46. 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
Lateran Treaty - 1929
Battle of Gallipoli
Paul von Hindenburg
Leon Trotsky
47. 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 -
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
Alexander Kerensky
Friedrich Ebert
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
48. French General and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe (except for American forces) in WWI
NEP
Austria-Hungary
Ferdinand Foch
Reinsurance Treaty - 1887
49. 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
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
Balfour Declaration (1917)
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
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
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
Belgium
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
David Lloyd George