HIST 102 quiz 13-15

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In the years before the First World War, two rival alliance systems dominated Europe. Germany belonged to the

Triple Alliance

The event that set off the First World War was the murder in Sarajevo on 6/28/1914, of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of

Austria

All of the following played a major role in the fighting in World War I, except:

Radar

After September, 1914, when British, French, and Belgian troops blocked the initial German offensive at the at the Battle of the Marne, the

A war of attrition

During World War I, Italy:

Fought on the side of the Allied Powers

The United States almost entered World War I in May, 1915, as the result of the sinking of the Lusitania by a:

German submarine

A major factor leading to U.S. entry into WWI was the publication of the Zimmermann telegram, in which Germany proposed an alliance with

Mexico

In January, 1918, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined his plan for peace after World War I. This plan was called the:

Fourteen Points

Adopted at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the peace agreement with Germany was called the:

Treaty of Versailles

In the peace settlement at the end of World War I, Germany agreed to limit the size of its army and navy, limit development of war-related i

Accept the blame for having started the war

Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Yugoslavia were:

newly formed or newly independent countries created as a result of World War I

In the late 19th-century, the phrase "sick man of Europe" referred to the:

Ottoman empire

The man known as the "father of modern Turkey" was:

Mustapha Kemal Atatürk

Following the Turkish Revolution of 1923, the offices of sultan and caliph were abolished, dress restrictions for women were abolished, poly

a law code modeled on the Napoleonic Code was adopted

In 1911 rebels led by Francisco I. Madero overthrew the dictator Porfirio Díaz in:

Mexico

The leader until his death in 1925 of the Guomindang party in China was:

Sun Yat-sen

In the history of the Russian Revolution, we associate the idea of "building socialism in one country" with:

Stalin

After they took power in Russia in 1917, the Bolsheviks made all of the following changes, except:

supporting Germany in launching a counteroffensive in France

Tsar Alexander II of Russia is remembered in history for:

freeing the serfs

In early 20th-century Russia, a "soviet" was:

a revolutionary committee of workers, peasants, soldiers, or sailors

The Bolshevik party came to power in Russia on November 6, 1917. This event is known in Russian history as the:

October Revolution

In the history of Marxist theory as applied to the revolution in Russia, we associate V. I. Lenin with the concepts of the "vanguard party"

"democratic centralism"

After 1918, the political organization of the Bolsheviks in Russia was known as the:

Communist Party

Confronted by the early economic failures of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, in 1921 Lenin decreed a "temporary retreat from communism"

NEP