Chapter 33

1.

1 point

The machine gun represented one of the most important advances in military technology and compelled military leaders to rethink their battlefield tactics.

True

False

2.

1 point

What effect did World War I have on the status of women?

The demands of total war actually reduced opportunities for women.

Women in many countries received the vote in the years after the war.

Working-class women enjoyed the greatest advancement in economic opportunity.

All women were able to take advantage of new economic opportunities, which lasted long past the end of the war.

3.

1 point

Known as the Bismarck plan, Germany’s war plan called for the swift knockout of France followed by defensive action against Russia.

True

False

4.

1 point

The final form of the peace treaty that ended the Great War represented Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points.

True

False

5.

1 point

The spark for World War I was provided when Gavrilo Princip assassinated

Francis Joseph

Nicholas II

Francis Ferdinand

Otto von Bismarck

6.

1 point

The western front in World War I was

a German victory, after the French abandoned their English allies.

an overwhelming French and English victory.

a bloody stalemate.

an Italian victory that changed the shape of the war.

7.

1 point

The March Revolution of 1917

brought many bands and hippies to a small town in New York called Woodstock

was event in which St Patrick led all of the snakes out of Ireland

led to the establishment of a reform-minded provisional government in Russia.

erupted after the assassination of Nicholas II.

8.

1 point

The Twenty-One Demands were issued

by Japan to China.

by Buffalo to Toledo

by the US to Japan

by Germany to France

9.

1 point

The members of the Triple Alliance were

England, France, and Italy.

Russia, Italy, and Germany.

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

England, France, and Russia.

10.

1 point

In 1914, England’s share of the world’s industrial output stood at

32 percent, the world’s largest.

3 percent, tied for tenth in the world.

62 percent, twice as large as that of the nearest competitor.

14 percent, roughly the same as Germany’s.

11.

1 point

The underlying causes of the Great War included intense nationalism, ethnic resentments, pursuit of economic interests, colonial rivalries, and a general struggle over the balance of power in Europe.

True

False

12.

1 point

The Somme was

the battle in 1914 that halted the German Schlieffen plan.

a disastrous Italian defeat that destroyed any hope for an Italian invasion of Austria.

the first great American victory of the war.

an English assault in 1916 that gained a few thousand yards.

13.

1 point

The last tsar of Russia was

Alexander III

Wilfred the Happy

Ivan the Terrible

Nicholas II

14.

1 point

Woodrow Wilson agreed to many harsh stipulations to the Treaty of Versailles

in return for the creation of the League of Nations.

. as a means of showing that democracy was the single best form of government.

because he hated the way Germans ate sauerkraut

because of his hatred for Germany, caused by the sinking of the Lusitania.

15.

1 point

The term for the idea that people with the same ethnic origins, language, and political ideals had the right to form sovereign states was

Utopian socialism

Fabianism

Self determination

positive nationalism