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CLEP Western Civilization: WW 1 - Early 20th century
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1. Prime Minister of France during WWI
League of Nations Mandates
Georges Clemenceau
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Russo-Japanese War - 1903-1905
2. 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
Friedrich Ebert
Battle of the Somme (1916)
National armaments
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
3. Leader of the Russian Bolsheviks
Long Range Causes of World War I (Atmospherics--See Sheet)
Vladimir Lenin
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
Parliament Act of 1911
4. 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
Leon Trotsky
Josef Stalin
Eddie Rickenbaker
Serbia
5. Emperor of Germany; he fired Bismarck
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
H.M.S. Dreadnought
Billy Mitchell
Second Dreikaiserbund - 1881
6. 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.
National Socialism
Alvin York
Billy Mitchell
George V (Windsor)
7. 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.
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Kronstadt Rebellion
8. 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
Vladimir Lenin
Young Plan (1929)
The Czech Legion
Gavrilo Princip
9. The first of its kind of battleship in the Royal Navy - named after this new - deadly model
NEP
H.M.S. Dreadnought
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
Austria-Hungary
10. 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
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
The Triple Intervention (1895)
NEP
Paul von Hindenburg
11. Leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor (Kanzler) and Fuhrer of Germany (1933-45)
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
Eddie Rickenbaker
Adolf Hitler
Great Depression - 1929
12. 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
Readjustment of the frontiers of Italy
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
Dawes Plan (1924)
Leon Trotsky
13. Militarism - Navalism - Nationalism - Alliance System - Political instability - Imperialism
Lateran Treaty - 1929
Kaiser Wilhelm II (Hohenzollern)
Long Range Causes of World War I (Atmospherics--See Sheet)
The only one of the Fourteen Points that Woodrow Wilson managed to force into the Treaty of Versailles
14. 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
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
Billy Mitchell
NEP
Lateran Treaty - 1929
15. 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.
The Czech Legion
NEP
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Balfour Declaration (1917)
16. Any of several private paramilitary groups that first appeared in December 1918 in the wake of Germany's defeat in World War I.
Freikorps
Nicholas II (Romanov)
Battle of Jutland
Zimmerman Telegram
17. 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
San Remo Conference
Eric Ludendorf
Rapallo
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
18. 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
Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas
Long Range Causes of World War I (Atmospherics--See Sheet)
Gavrilo Princip
First Battle of the Marne (1914)
19. 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-
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
Russo-Japanese War - 1903-1905
March on Rome (1920)
20. 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
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
National armaments
Meiji Restoration
Dawes Plan (1924)
21. 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
Spanish-American War
Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas
San Remo Conference
Ottoman Empire
22. French General and Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe (except for American forces) in WWI
Woodrow Wilson
Adolf Hitler
The Czech Legion
Ferdinand Foch
23. Emperor of Austria-Hungary
Alvin York
Franz Josef I (Hapsburg)
Woodrow Wilson
Alfred von Tirpitz
24. 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.
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
Spanish-American War
Pact of Locarno
Alfred von Tirpitz
25. 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
Woodrow Wilson
David Lloyd George
The Triple Intervention (1895)
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
26. 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
Open covenants of peace
Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
March 1918 Offensive
27. President of United States from 1912-1920
Woodrow Wilson
Eddie Rickenbaker
Zimmerman Telegram
Short Range Causes of World War I (Immediate--See Sheet)
28. 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
March 1918 Offensive
Second Dreikaiserbund - 1881
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
Alvin York
29. 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 -
Great Depression - 1929
Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas
Friedrich Ebert
National Socialism
30. An excellent American rifleman who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for single-handedly capturing a small division of German soldiers
March 1918 Offensive
Paul von Hindenburg
Dawes Plan (1924)
Alvin York
31. 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
Ottoman Empire
Alfred von Tirpitz
Young Plan (1929)
32. Signed by the United States - Great Britain - Japan - France - and Italy - this agreement restricted the size of each country's navy
Trench Warfare
March 1918 Offensive
Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty (1922)
Balfour Declaration (1917)
33. 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
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
Eric Ludendorf
Josef Stalin
Treaty of Versailles
34. Itinerant monk - whose influence over Russia's royal family had a malign effect
Vladimir Lenin
Eric Ludendorf
Grigori Rasputin
Russian territory
35. 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
David Lloyd George
Treaty of Versailles
Anglo-Japanese Naval Treaty - 1902
Ottoman Empire
36. 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
An independent Polish state
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
Rapallo
The Triple Intervention (1895)
37. Naval engagement of the Russo-Japanese War - the final - crushing defeat of the Russian navy in that conflict
Trench Warfare
Kulak
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
Balfour Declaration (1917)
38. Franco-German dispute over control of the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine - Disintegration of European Turkey - Bosnian Crisis of 1908 - The fragility of European politics
Short Range Causes of World War I (Immediate--See Sheet)
Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas
Belgium
Lateran Treaty - 1929
39. Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWI
National Socialism
David Lloyd George
Alfred von Tirpitz
Battle of Gallipoli
40. King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 - the second son of Prince Albert Edward - later King Edward VII
Short Range Causes of World War I (Immediate--See Sheet)
Franco-Russian Alliance - 1903
Armistice: November 11 - 1918
George V (Windsor)
41. Controversial British commander on Western Front; the force behind the failed offensives during the battles of the Somme and Passchendaele
Sir Douglas Haig
Adolf Hitler
Short Range Causes of World War I (Immediate--See Sheet)
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
42. 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
Trench Warfare
Pact of Locarno
Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas
Beer Hall Putsch - 1923
43. 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
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
Balfour Declaration (1917)
National Socialism
44. The war that broke out after the explosion of the USS Maine was blamed on the Spanish forces in Cuba
Freikorps
San Remo Conference
Spanish-American War
Philippine Insurrection - 1899-1902
45. American Air Force Ace with (26 kills)
Adjustment of all colonial claims
Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922)
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Eddie Rickenbaker
46. 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
Josef Stalin
Sir Douglas Haig
Manfred von Richthofen
Anglo-Russian Treaty - 1907
47. 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
French territory
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence (1915)
Alsace-Lorraine
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
48. The Treaty that included the terms of surrender for the Germans after WWI - which the United States Congress refused to sign
March on Rome (1920)
Treaty of Portsmouth - 1905
Battle of Tsushima Strait - 1905
Treaty of Versailles
49. 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.
Parliament Act of 1911
Rapallo
National armaments
Ottoman Empire
50. 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
Alvin York
Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Eddie Rickenbaker
Serbia