161-180 vt terms

Question 1

Was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Perhaps one of the three or four most significant lives in the last 200 years of human history.

Answer 1

Winston Churchill

Question 2

Was fought between the British Empire and two independent Boer states, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, over the Empire’s influence in South Africa.

Answer 2

The Boer War

Question 3

Germany’s leader during the time of the Berlin Conference.

Answer 3

Otto von Bismarck

Question 4

During which the delegates of twelve European states as well as the United States and the Ottoman Empire devised the ground rules for the division of African territories by outsiders. Not a single African was present. Half the nations represented, including the United States, had no colonial ambitions on the continent, but they had been invited to give the proceedings a veneer of unbiased international approval.

Answer 4

The Berlin Conference

Question 5

European governments typically granted private companies large concessions of territory and empowered them to undertake economic activities such as mining, plantation agriculture, or railroad construction. Concessionary companies also had permission to implement systems of taxation and labor recruitment.

Answer 5

Concessionary companies

Question 6

Skipping the companies, some nations directly ruled their colonies, sending leaders to represent European Imperial interests.

Answer 6

Direct rule

Question 7

In essence Monroe claimed all of the Americas as a U.S. protectorate, it served as a justification for later U.S. intervention in hemispheric affairs.

Answer 7

The Monroe Doctrine

Question 8

Exerted the U.S. right to intervene in the domestic affairs of nations within the hemisphere if they demonstrated an inability to maintain the security deemed necessary to protect U.S. investments.

Answer 8

The Roosevelt Corollary

Question 9

WW I

A war that started locally and ended up a global referendum on monarchism.

Answer 9

The Great War

Question 10

Royal German family, one of the principal sovereign dynasties of Europe from the 15th to the 20th century.

Answer 10

The Hapsburgs/House of Habsburg

Question 11

an entirely new generation of Warships. These were warships, characterized in part by the high speed supplied by steam turbines… a product of the age of industrialization .. Britain started the move towards dreadnoughts but Germany followed suit.

Answer 11

Dreadnoughts presented…

Question 12

The countries of Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria joined forces and declared war on the Ottoman Empire in October 1912. The League’s declared aim was to force the Ottoman Turks out of their remaining territory in Europe.

Answer 12

The Balkan League

Question 13

Both were about getting rid of Imperial Ottoman rule and gaining national self determinism.

Answer 13

Reasons for the two Balkan Wars

Question 14

A suffix meaning city.

Answer 14

Ople/Opolis

Question 15

A major region of real estate controversy among the other Balkan States… the key point here is religion… nations in the region ( a pre dominantly Christian region) resented Islamic rule and wanted the Ottomans out and Macedonia cut up into pieces that would then be doled out to the other Balkan States (Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, etc.)

Answer 15

Macedonia

Question 16

Italy, fearful of France, joined the Dual Alliance in 1882, thereby transforming it into the Triple Alliance. The Allies described the wartime military alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire as the ‘Central Powers’.

Answer 16

The Triple Alliance/Central Powers

Question 17

Two shots in Sarajevo ignited the fires of war and drew Europe toward World War I. Just hours after narrowly escaping an assassin’s bomb, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, are killed by him.

Answer 17

Gavrilo Princip

Question 18

Originated in a series of agreements between Britain and France (1904) and between Britain and Russia (1907) that aimed to resolve colonial disputes.. eventually the US would join this group, after Russia’s exit to fight their own home based civil war, the Russian Revolution.

Answer 18

The Triple Entente

Question 19

Called for a swift attack on France, followed by defensive action against Russia. German planners based their strategy on the knowledge that the Russians could not mobilize their soldiers and military supplies as quickly as the French, thus giving German forces a few precious weeks during which they could concentrate their full power on France.

Answer 19

The Schlieffen Plan

Question 20

The Germans’ most formidable naval weapon was this, a submarine far more sophisticated than those built by other nations at the time. It typically was 214 feet long, carried 35 men and 12 torpedoes, and could travel underwater for two hours at a time.

Answer 20

U Boats