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CLEP Western Civilization: WW 1 - Early 20th century

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1. 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






2. 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)






3. 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






4. Prime Minister of France during WWI






5. 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.






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






7. 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






8. 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






9. An authorization granted by the League of Nations to a member nation to govern a former German or Turkish colony.






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. 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.






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. 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.






18. Germany's top aviator and leading ace in the First World War; aka 'The Red Baron'






19. The first of its kind of battleship in the Royal Navy - named after this new - deadly model






20. 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






21. 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






22. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: A _________________ should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.






23. 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






24. Emperor of Germany; he fired Bismarck






25. [needs definition]






26. 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






27. King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 - the second son of Prince Albert Edward - later King Edward VII






28. 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






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. 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






31. 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






32. Supreme German Commander on the German Western Front






33. First Lord of the Admiralty (later demoted) to fight in trenches - after which he was repromoted to his previous position






34. Commanding General of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe

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






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'






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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'






40. 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






41. 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.






42. 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






43. 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-






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






45. An excellent American rifleman who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for single-handedly capturing a small division of German soldiers






46. The originally-French territories that were annexed by Germans






47. President of United States from 1912-1920






48. 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






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. 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