CH27 - WW1 Questions

Question 1

According to the text, the single most “fatal decision” made by Tsar Nicholas II in the
time before the Russian Revolution was
A) his decision to free Rasputin from house arrest.
B) his decision to allow Lenin to return home to Russia.
C) his decision to mobilize the home front.
D) his decision to build a large modern navy.
E) his decision to travel to the front and take personal command of the Russian army.

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Grigori Rasputin was assassinated by
A) Bolshevik revolutionaries. D) nationalistic aristocrats.
B) agents of the tsarist police force. E) Japanese spies.
C) German mercenaries.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The chief cause of growing tension between Britain and Germany in the first decade of
the twentieth century was
A) the British naval blockade of German colonies in South Africa.
B) the British fear that German economic domination of Russia would exclude
British investment.
C) German support for Russia during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905.
D) increasing German immigration to Great Britain.
E) intense commercial rivalry and the German decision to construct a large worldclass
navy.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

The ______________ linked Austria, Germany, and Russia.
A) Three Emperors’ League D) Central Alliance
B) Triple Alliance E) Conservative League
C) Triple Entente

Answer 4

A

Question 5

The spark that ignited the Balkan “powder keg” in 1914 was the assassination of
A) Archduke Francis Ferdinand. D) Tsar Nicholas II.
B) Emperor Francis Joseph. E) General Erich Ludendorf.
C) Chancellor BethmannHollweg.

Answer 5

A

Question 6

Germany’s initial offensive was stopped on the outskirts of Paris at the Battle of
A) Verdun. B) the Somme. C) the Marne. D) Ypres. E) Tannenberg.

Answer 6

C

Question 7

The immediate cause of British entry into the First World War was
A) the sinking of the Lusitania.
B) German invasion of neutral Belgium.
C) the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia.
D) the Algeciras Conference.
E) German mobilization following the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia.

Answer 7

B

Question 8

Which of the following events occurred first?
A) First Balkan War begins.
B) Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated.
C) Rasputin is murdered.
D) Ministry of Munitions established in Britain.
E) Russian Revolution topples Nicholas II.

Answer 8

A

Question 9

All of the following nations joined the war on the side of the Central Powers except
A) Bulgaria. D) Austria-Hungary.
B) Germany. E) Italy.
C) the Ottoman Empire.

Answer 9

E

Question 10

The Petrograd Soviet’s Army Order No. 1
A) launched the disastrous July offensive.
B) led to a total collapse of discipline in the Russian army.
C) resulted in a counterrevolutionary attack on Petrograd.
D) reinvigorated morale in the Russian army.
E) ordered the execution of all officers above the level of sergeant.

Answer 10

B

Question 11

What was the overall effect of World War I on the lives of European women?
A) The war brought many more women into work in industry, transportation, and
offices.
B) Wartime legislation substantially reduced women’s rights.
C) Many European women served in combat.
D) The war raised divorce rates as women separated from husbands absent at the
front.
E) European women gained full equality under the law.

Answer 11

A

Question 12

Walter Rathenau is remembered for his
A) May Day rally in opposition to the German war effort.
B) assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
C) role in Germany’s total war mobilization.
D) antiwar novels, which he wrote after the war.
E) advocacy of violent revolution against the German government.

Answer 12

C

Question 13

Which of the following events occurred last?
A) First Balkan War begins.
B) Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated.
C) Rasputin is murdered.
D) Ministry of Munitions established in Britain.
E) Russian Revolution topples Nicholas II.

Answer 13

E

Question 14

In the years before 1900, __________ pursued a policy of “splendid isolation.”
A) Britain B) Germany C) Austria D) Russia E) France

Answer 14

A

Question 15

Lenin’s contribution to Marxist theory included all of the following except the
A) importance of violent revolution.
B) possibility of social revolution in a backward country.
C) necessity of a disciplined workers’ party.
D) historically determined nature of revolution.
E) importance of human action in bringing about revolution.

Answer 15

D

Question 16

In the First Balkan War, ___________ joined Greece and Bulgaria to attack the Ottoman
Empire.
A) Romania B) Albania C) Serbia D) Russia E) Austria

Answer 16

C

Question 17

Bismarck’s alliance system was designed to isolate France and
A) expand German territory eastward.
B) challenge Britain’s dominant world position.
C) create rival diplomatic blocs in Europe.
D) maintain peace between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
E) control the Balkans.

Answer 17

D

Question 18

All of the following were activities of the War Raw Materials Board in Germany except
A) inventory and rationing of useful raw materials.
B) sponsoring research that led to the production of synthetic rubber.
C) food rationing.
D) sponsoring research that led to the production of synthetic nitrates for explosives.
E) arrest and imprisonment of “shirkers” at factories producing for the war effort.

Answer 18

E

Question 19

After defeats at the Battles of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ and Masurian Lakes, Russia never posed a
real threat to Germany.
A) the Urals D) the Danube
B) Tannenberg E) the Volga
C) the Black Sea.

Answer 19

B

Question 20

During World War I, the Balkans, with the exception of __________, were occupied by
the Central Powers.
A) Greece B) Serbia C) Bulgaria D) Albania E) Bosnia

Answer 20

A

Question 21

The efforts of wartime governments to wage total war resulted in all of the following
except
A) a shortening of the war.
B) an effective and destructive war effort on both sides.
C) a blurring of the distinction between soldiers and civilians.
D) the emergence of socialism as a realistic economic blueprint.
E) widespread censorship of the press.

Answer 21

A

Question 22

Austria-Hungary deliberately chose war in July 1914
A) to annex Serbia.
B) against the desires of their German allies.
C) because it believed Russia would not intervene.
D) to stem the tide of hostile nationalism within its borders.
E) to seize Italian territory.

Answer 22

D

Question 23

46. The social impact of total war included all of the following except
    A) greater power and prestige for labor unions.
    B) greater acceptance of ethnic minorities.
    C) dramatic changes in the role of women.
    D) greater social equality.
    E) full employment.

Answer 23

B

Question 24

The African colonial subjects of Britain and France
A) used the war as an opportunity to revolt.
B) played no part in the war.
C) opposed the war as irrelevant to their interests.
D) lent clandestine support to Germany.
E) generally supported their foreign masters.

Answer 24

E

Question 25

Generally, the offensives on the western front
A) made significant territorial gains.
B) relied heavily on flanking movements of cavalry units.
C) were depressingly similar slaughters of massed infantry units.
D) were won by the army on the offensive.
E) were launched by the Germans.

Answer 25

C

Question 26

Germany’s Auxiliary Service Law
A) mobilized local police for service with the German army at the front.
B) created an organization of female nurses attached to the German army.
C) banned the conscription of skilled industrial workers.
D) mandated the forced conscription of Belgian subjects for labor service in
Germany.
E) required all males between the ages of 17 and 60 to work only at jobs considered
crucial for the war effort.

Answer 26

E

Question 27

At the Paris Peace Conference, French premier Georges Clemenceau
A) strongly supported the creation of a League of Nations.
B) advocated lenient treatment of Germany.
C) agreed to renounce France’s claim to Alsace and Lorraine.
D) wanted to create a buffer state between Germany and France.
E) objected to the breakup of the Austrian Empire.

Answer 27

D

Question 28

At the Paris Peace Conference Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan, and Syria
A) remained part of the Turkish empire.
B) gained independence from the Turkish empire.
C) were placed under British and French colonial rule.
D) were placed under Italian colonial rule.
E) were placed together under direct rule by the League of Nations.

Answer 28

C

Question 29

According to the text, the harshest clause of the Treaty of Versailles with regard to
Germany was
A) the establishment of a separate state along the Rhine River.
B) territorial transfers from Germany to France and Poland.
C) the limitation of the German army to 100,000 men.
D) the transfer of Germany’s colonies to France, Britain, and Japan.
E) the mandating of huge war reparations payments.

Answer 29

E

Question 30

British Prime Minister Lloyd George’s smashing electoral victory of December 1918
came largely out of his promise
A) of “peace for our time.”
B) to make Germany pay for the war.
C) to enact wide-ranging welfare programs.
D) to dismantle the government’s apparatus for control of the economy.
E) not to form any future military alliance with France.

Answer 30

B

Question 31

Nicholas II failed, in part, because he did not work with the __________, Russia’s lower
house.
A) Duma B) Reichstag C) Bund D) Kremlin E) Soviet

Answer 31

A

Question 32

Agrarian socialist \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ led the provisional government that formed after the
fall of Nicholas II.
A) Sergei Witte D) Leon Trotsky
B) Nicholas Cheka E) Alexander Kerensky
C) Leon Blum

Answer 32

E

Question 33

Lenin’s faction was known as the Bolsheviks, or “____________.”
A) minority group D) revolutionary group
B) majority group E) fighting group
C) radical group

Answer 33

B

Question 34

During the war, social distinctions were blurred by all of the following except
A) death at the front. D) government decrees.
B) rationing of scarce goods. E) full employment.
C) shared hardships.

Answer 34

D

Question 35

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
A) established an independent Serbian state.
B) was generous to a fault.
C) ended the war between Russia and Germany.
D) was supported by France, Britain, and the United States.
E) brought the United States into World War I.

Answer 35

C

Question 36

In Austria-Hungary the revolution after World War I was primarily
A) a Bolshevik movement.
B) a conservative and aristocratic movement.
C) a revisionist socialist revolution.
D) a nationalist revolution.
E) the work of the Ottoman secret service.

Answer 36

D

Question 37

The Bolsheviks used the Cheka, their version of the tsarist _____________, to solidify
their grip on power.
A) secret police B) legal code C) palace guard D) press E) military

Answer 37

A

Question 38

According to the text, Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
A) helped the Bolsheviks, who could appeal to patriotic nationalism against the
Allies.
B) helped the Whites with a massive infusion of military aid.
C) blocked the German advance into Ukraine.
D) caused the Bolsheviks to initiate their policy of terror.
E) helped the Finns to gain their independence.

Answer 38

A

Question 39

The key issue in the U.S. rejection of the Treaty of Versailles was
A) American indignation at the amount of German reparations.
B) fear of the Bolshevik Revolution.
C) the Senate’s fear of losing control of the right to declare war.
D) Wilson’s conflict with Clemenceau over Germany’s borders.
E) American anger at the Treaty’s extension of European colonialism.

Answer 39

C

Question 40

The Versailles settlement included all of the following except
A) the imposition of huge reparations on Germany.
B) generalized arms control in Europe.
C) the creation of the League of Nations.
D) a clause placing blame for the war on Germany.
E) limitations on the size of the German military.

Answer 40

B