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The process of assembling troops and supplies for war

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Mobilization

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A military draft

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Conscription

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

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Triple Alliance

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Great Britain, Russia, France

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Triple Entente

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Heir to Austrian-Hungarian throne

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

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Bosnian that assassinated the archduke; he was 19

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Gavrilo Princip

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Decided to become allies with Austira-Hungary

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Emperor William the 2nd

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Ordered mobilization of Russian Army

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Czar Nicholas the 2nd

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Formed the Germans military plan

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General Alfred Von Schlieffen

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Supported Russia; located in the Balkans

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Serbia

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Located in the Triple Alliance territory

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Bosnia

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Explain why Great Britain became involved in the war

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They were concerned about maintaining their own world power

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List the ethnic groups that were left without nations after the nationalist movements of the 19th century

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Isirsh (British rule), Slavic Groups (Balkans), Poles (Russian rule)

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13
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Ideas spread to influence public opinion

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Propaganda

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14
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Fighting from ditches protected by barb wire

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Trench Warfare

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War based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses

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War of attrition

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Systems directed by government agencies

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Planned economics

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17
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Complete mobilization of people and resources

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Total war

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British officer; urged Arab princes to revolt against their Ottoman overlords

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Lawrence of Arabia

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Said, “I give your Majesty my word as an officer that not one American will land on the continent.”

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Admiral Holtzendorff

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U.S. President during WWI

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Woodrow Wilson

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21
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Where the first battle of the war was fought (in France)

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Marne

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22
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Where the Germans were defeated (in Germany)

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Tannenberg

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23
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Where Germany was defeated on September 15

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Masurian

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Located in France

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Verdun

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Located southwest of Constantinople

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Gallipoli

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26
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Explain why WWI required total warfare

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Because it affected the lives of all citizens in the warring countries

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List some of the occupations opened to women by the war

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Chimney sweeps, truck drivers, farm laborers, and factory workers

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28
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Council composed of reps from workers and soldiers

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Soviets

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29
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Ensured regular supplies for the Red Army

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War Communism

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30
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Czar Nicholas II’s wife

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Alexandra

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31
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An educated Siberian peasant; claimed to be the “holy man”

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Grigori Rasputin

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32
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Headed the provisional government

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Alexander Kerensky

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Small faction of a Marxist party

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Bolsheviks

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Head of the Bolsheviks

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V. I. Lenin

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Red Army commissar of war; reinstated the draft

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Leon Trotsky

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Located in Russia; where women marched about bread

37
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Was given up by Germany

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Anti-Communist force attacked; threat to Communist

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A mining town

40
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Explain why Lenin accepted the loss of so much Russian territory in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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He said it made no difference

41
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List some different opinions that split the White forces

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  • Single-minded sense of purpose
  • Determination
  • Revolutionary zeal
  • Conviction
42
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Aggressive preparation for war

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Militarism

43
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Readying troops and supplies for war

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Mobilization

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Ally of Austria-Hungry

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Protector of Serbia

46
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The triple alliance was a loose agreement of cooperation among…

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

47
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Which of the following is NOT considered a major cause of World War I

A. The growth of nationalism
B. Impressionism
C. Militarism
D. Internal dissent

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B. Impressionism

48
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Austria-Hungary feared that Serbia would…

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Create a large Slavic state

49
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Germany viewed the Russian czar’s full mobilization of the army as an…

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Act of war

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The German military plan devised by General von Schlieffen

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Called for a war on two fronts

51
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Warfare based on wearing down of the opponents

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War of attrition

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Huge German airship

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Warfare based on protected lines of ditches

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Trench warfare

54
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During the war, new roles in the workforce were created for women because…

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So many men entered the military effort

55
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To maintain high morale and maintain support for the war among the citizens ____.

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The democratic states used propaganda

56
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Air warfare in World War I involved all of the following EXCEPT…

A. The first long-range missiles
B. Spotting enemy positions
C. Attacking ground targets
D. Shooting down enemy aircraft

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A. The first long-range missiles

57
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Across Europe, war time governments…

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Set up planned economies

58
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United States entered the war largely after the issue of…

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Unrestricted submarine warfare

59
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Russian legislative body in 1917

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Representative councils of workers and soldiers

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Small section of the Russian social Democratic Party

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Bolsheviks

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Red Army’s commissar

63
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Temporary suspension of communist practices

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War communism

64
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Russia was unprepared for the war and all the following ways except one. Which one?

A. No competent military leaders
B. Weak armament industry
C. Poorly armed military
D. No czar

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D. No czar

65
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Women workers in Petrograd marched in protest, then…

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Organized a general strike

66
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Outwardly, Lenin turned over power to the all-Russian Congress of Soviets, then…

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Passed real power to the Council of people’s commissars that he controlled

67
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Military opposition or other forms of challenges to the red Army came from all the following EXCEPT…

A. Siberian anti-communist
B. Italian royalists who supported Lenin
C. Allied material aid to the anti-Communist
D. The Ukrainians

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B. Italian royalists who supported Lenin

68
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Kerensky’s provisional government made the fatal mistake of deciding to…

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Continue the war

69
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Complete mobilization of resources and people

70
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Explain why the mandate system was created. Which countries became mandates? Who governed them?

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Wilson opposed the outright annexation by the Allies. France controlled Lebanon and Syria. Britain controlled Iraq and Palestine

71
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List some of President Wilson’s proposals for created a truly just and lasting peace. Why did he feel the need to develop these proposals?

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Peace agreements and self determination/ for lasting peace

72
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Located in Northern Germany

73
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Taken by the Germans from France

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Alsace and Lorraine

74
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Near Germany and Czechoslovakia

75
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Guided military operations

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Erich Von Ludendorff

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Leader of the social democrats

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Friedrich Ebert

77
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Prime minister of Great Britain

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David Lloyd George

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Premier of France

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Georges Clemenceau

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A truce, an agreement to end fighting

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Payment made to the victors by the losers of the war to cover war costs

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Reparations

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A nation governed by another nation by the League of Nations

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Truce agreement

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Payment to cover war costs

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Reparations

84
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Governing without owning the territory

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Mandate system

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British prime minister in 1919

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Lloyd George

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French premier in 1919

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Georges Clemenceau

87
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American President Wilson argued at the Paris peace conference most strongly for…

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A League of Nations to prevent future wars

88
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To gain Arab support against the Ottoman Turks during the war, the allies had promised to…

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Recognize independent Arab states

89
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Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was forced to do all of the following EXCEPT…

A. Return Alsace and Lorraine to France
B. Give up land to a new Polish state
C. Pay for war damage
D. Run Italy as a mandate

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D. Run Italy as a mandate

90
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The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Big Three powers as a peace settlement with…

91
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After German emperor William the second fled the country in 1918, Germany formed a…

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Democratic republic

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