Chapter 26

Question 0

Bismarck’s goal for Germany

Answer 0

Maintain it as it was

Question 1

Significance of new German Empire in Europe

Answer 1

Britain and Germany = rival, Russia – threat, Austria – left out of affairs, nationalistic turmoil, France – list Alsis and Lorraine, US – not affected

Question 2

Facts about the Russo – Turkish War of 1877

Answer 2

Slaviks wanted independence, Russia stepped in for land, Treaty of Stanstefano – Slavs free, created alarm because Russia = threat (Austria and Britain), Congress of Berlin

Question 3

Facts and results of the Congress of Berlin

Answer 3

Bismarck = honest broker, review Stanstefano, Bosnia-Herzegovina (Austria), Russia lost Bulgaria

Question 4

Three Emperor’s League, Triple Alliance, Dual Alliance, Entente Cordial, Triple Entente

Answer 4

TEL – Germany, Austria, Russia
TA – Austria, Germany, Italy
DA – Austria, Germany
EC – France, Britain
TE – France, Britain, Russia

Question 5

Facts about Kaiser William II and his political goals

Answer 5

Wearable other superpowers (Brian), grandson Queen Victoria

Question 6

The “Powder Keg of Europe”

Answer 6

Balkan Peninsula

Question 7

Factors that led to World War I

Answer 7

Young Turks, Balkan wars, Archduke assassinated, alliance systems

Question 8

Impact of Second Moroccan Crisis

Answer 8

Driving wedge between Entente Cordial, backfired

Question 9

Facts and significance about the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand

Answer 9

Started World War I, Gavrilo Princip, the Black Hand

Question 10

Responses from my Dual alliance and Triple Entente following the assassination of Francis Ferdinand

Answer 10

Germany – blank check to Austria, triple Entente – Russia; mobilized against Austria,
Russia given blank check,
England = neutral

Question 11

First country to mobilize against Russia

Answer 11

Austria

Question 12

The Schlieffen Plan

Answer 12

1905; avoid two front war, go to Western front, faulty, Alfred vin Schlieffen

Question 13

Reasons Germany was blamed for the war

Answer 13

Kaiser Wilhelm ambition, German aggression, blank check, invasion of Belgium

Question 14

Potential numbers of trained/equipped soldiers available for countries in the war

Answer 14

Germany had most soldiers

Question 15

Facts/characteristic/battles of the Western Front

Answer 15

Bottle of the Marne, Battle of the Sonne, Battle of Verdun “they shall not pass”, trench warfare, deadlock, weapons = deadly, Wilfred Owen – Sweet and fitting it is, poem – not Gallipoli battle

Question 16

Weapons used during World War I

Answer 16

Tanks, airplanes, gas, machine guns, artillery, bombardment, submarines

Question 17

New entries into the war starting in 1915 and the sides she joined

Answer 17

Ottoman Empire + Bulgaria = central

Italy + Japan + Romania = allies

Question 18

Col. TE Lawrence and his role during World War I

Answer 18

Lawrence of Arabia, Ottoman Empire, stir Arabic unrest

Question 19

Facts about the Battle of Gallipoli

Answer 19

1915–1916; Winston Churchill, Britain + Austria + New Zealand, Darnell St., Allies lose

Question 20

Reasons for US entry into World War I

Answer 20

Seeking a Lusitania, Zimmerman note, Russian Revolution

Question 21

Woodrow Wilson’s view of World War I

Answer 21

Make world safe for democracy

Question 22

Causes of the March Revolution in Russia

Answer 22

1917; unrest because hunger/strikes, Tsar Nicholas = unable – inept

Question 23

Significance of Rasputin in Russian political affairs

Answer 23

Influenced Tsarina Alexandria, create political problems while Tsar was away

Question 24

Facts about the Bolsheviks

Answer 24

“Majority”, best organized/skillfully led, “peace, bread, and land”, Socialist government, 1917 – November Revolution = success, overthrow Dumas

Question 25

Description and significance of Soviets

Answer 25

Council of discontent workers/peasants, administer affairs, building blocks of communism

Question 26

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 26

Pulls Russia out of war and makes concessions with Germany, culmination of German success (zennith), lost land in Baltics/Eastern Europe

Question 27

Last German offensive

Answer 27

Second Battle of the Marne, Americans aid allies, Germany stands alone

Question 28

Casualties of World War I

Answer 28

10 million dead, 20 million wounded, 5 million = allies, four million = Central, 1 million = civilians

Question 29

Effects of the War

Answer 29

German resentment towards Deutsches-Reich, empires created and destroyed, debt, Europe creditors, US = superpower, communism, Facism, World War II

Question 30

Fax about the Greco – Turkish War

Answer 30

1919–22; Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) - “Father of the Turks”, Greeks defeated, Turkey created

Question 31

The “Big Four”

Answer 31

Woodrow Wilson (USA),
David L George (Britain), 
George Clemenceau (France), Vittorio Orlando (Italy)

Question 32

Obstacles to peace faced by the big four

Answer 32

Publicity, Woodrow Wilson (impractical), nationalism, the victors (Japan + power), Bolshevism

Question 33

Facts about the League of Nations

Answer 33

Britain + France + Italy + Japan + USA – respect + preserve territorial concessions, no military backing, all five had to agree

Question 34

Key concepts/parts of Wilson’s 14 Points

Answer 34

Self-determination, open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, disarmament, League of Nations

Question 35

Criticisms regarding the terms of the Paris Peace Settlement /Treaty of Varsailles

Answer 35

England + US – unfair, John Maynard Keynes – Economic Consequences of the Peace, France didn’t have support