WESTERN CIVILIZATION Name

TEST # 70D4

Answer questions #1- 5 from the attached MAP #A

1. Which country represents a country that was part of the Triple Alliance?

a. A;

b. B;

c. C;

d. D.

2. Which country represents a country that was part of the Triple Entente?

a. E;

b. F;

c. G;

d. H.

3. Which country was neutral during the war?

a. I;

b. K;

c. L;

d. M.

4. In which country was the Battle of the Marne fought?

a. A;

b. B;

c. C;

d. D.

5. In which country was Archduke Ferdinand killed?

a. E;

b. B;

c. C;

d. L.

6. Which are the correct dates for World War I?

a. 1912-1922;

b. 1914-1918;

c. 1914-1920;

d. 1917-1919.

7. Bismarck’s greatest fear for Germany was that

a. France and Russia would form a military alliance;

b. Austria-Hungary would go to war with Serbia;

c. France and Great Britain would form a military alliance; d. the Russians would seize istanbul;

e. the Emperor would lead Germany into a war

8. By the terms of the Treaty of Brest Litovsk. a. France agreed to draw German forces away from the eastern front to the

western front;

b. Germany gave up considerable territory to Russia;

c. Russia agreed to stop fighting in World War I; d. The Ottoman Empire agreed to change sides and join the Allies.

9. In the decade before World War I, the two chief rivals for control of the Balkans were:

a. Prussia and Italy

b. Austria-Hungary and Russia;

c. Austria-Hungary and Great Britain

d. Russia and Turkey

10. According to Mr. Sidoli the most devastating weapon of World War I was a. the U-boat;

b. Hand grenade;

c. Machine gun;

d. Bazooka.

11. All the following were long range causes of the war EXCEPT;

a. an arms race;

b. national self-interests;

c. imperialism;

d. lack of groups calling for world peace;

e. alliance system

12. Two nations created following World War I were:

a. Poland and Czechoslovakia;

b. Lithuania and Rumania;

c. Greece and Denmark;

d. Norway and Yugoslavia;

e. Sweden and Bulgaria.

13. The Schlieffen plan was created by the German General Staff to?

a. divide its forces equally between the two fronts and attack Russia and

France simultaneously;

b. invade France first while holding off Russia; c. use unrestricted submarine warfare to isolate England and it allies;

d. ally with Russia and fight a defensive war.

14. Which was a famous naval battle of World War I?

a. Jutland;

b. Somme;

c. Gallipoli;

d. Verdun.

15. The name Cecil Rhodes is associated with what country?

a. Afrikanerland;

b. South Africa;

c. Zululand;

d. Angola.

16. Three personalities dominated the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919:

a. Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd George;

b. Lodge, Clemenceau and Bismarck;

c. Orlando, Clemenceau and Lloyd George;

d. Wilson, Clemenceau and Bismarck.

17. The causes for New Imperialism can be summed up by a. God, Gog and Grog;

b. God, Glory, and Gold;

c. Realpolitik for the Masses;

d. Peace, Bread and Land.

Questions #18-25 come from Origins of World War I

18. The Weisner Investigation/Report

a. blamed Serbia for the assassination of the Archduke

b. blamed the Dimitrijevic for the assassination of the Archduke

c. exonerated Austria for the assassination of the Archduke

d. stated that in no way was Serbia responsible for the assassination.

19. On June 28, 1914, a young Bosnian revolutionary assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The assassin was a member of the Serbian secret society called “Union or Death” commonly know as the a. Cheka;

b. Black Hand;

c. Serbian Underground;

d. South Slav union.

20. The Austrian Ultimatum was :

a. aimed at Germany;

b. sent first to Russia;

c. was written so that Serbia could not accept all its terms;

d. written by the German Government.

21. Which country mobilized first?

a. Germany;

b. Russia;

c. France;

d. Austria.

22. Which major country declared war on August 1, 1914?

a. Germany;

b. Russia;

c. France;

d. Austria.

23. It (the country fro Question #23) declares war upon?

a. Germany;

b. Russia;

c. France;

d. Austria.

24. Which came first.

a. Germany invades Belgium;

b. Russia declares war on Germany ;

c. France declares war on Germany;

d. Austria declares war on Serbia.

25. Which statement is true?

a. The Archduke Ferdinand was well liked by his Uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph and

the royal family;

b. Roughly a month passed between the assassination of the Archduke and any

significant diplomatic action;

c. the Blank Check was given by the German Ambassador to the Tsar Nicholas II;

d. Kaiser Wilhelm II attempted to go to England to resolve the crisis.

26. What is the date June 22, 1941, associated with

a. Battle of Stalingrad;

b. V-E Day;

c. Operation Barbarossa;

d. Pearl Harbor.

27. The Gosplan was

a. Stalin’s secret police;

b. the central planning board for the Five Year plans;

c. Russia’s plan to win the Cold War;

d. the Russian spy network.

28. Alexi Stakanov was

a. an early Marxist who help found the social democratic Party;

b. Russian general in World War II;

c. Russian coal worker whose work productivity was used by Stalin as a model for

the Five Year Plan;

d. one of the men removed in one of Stalin’s purges.

29. The aim of the first Five-Year Plan in Russia was to

a. increase industrial production for a ten year period in five years; b. produce more consumer goods; c. defend Russia from German by relocated Russian industry behind the Urals Mountains;

d. strengthen the capitalist features of the NEP.

30. The Five Year Plans in Russia started with

a the growth of small businesses;

b. the establishment of collective farms;

c. an increase in coal production;

d. setting production goals for electrical production.

31. Lenin believed that

a. the Bolsheviks must wait for the capitalist to take power before their revolution

could be carried out;

b. imperialism was not a symptom of a decadent capitalism;

c. World war One was a war to end

d. the Bolsheviks were a disciplined elite leading the revolution.

32. Lenin’s New Economic Policy a. included turning the land over to the peasants;

b. a hard lined position of the elimination of private property;

c. the denationalization of factories;

d. allowed a return to some small venture capitalism so as to ease the long road to

Communism.

33. The Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation serves as one of the world’s largest producers of

a. wheat, steel and copper;

b. steel iron and oil;

c. tin, copper, and iron;

d. what, oil, and corn.

34. The principal failure of the Provisional Government of Russia was its failure :

a. to achieve peace;

b. to control inflation;

c. to provide enough food for the people;

d. to control opposition to the war on the part of the Church

35. The Cheka was

a. the secret police created by Lenin;

b. Stalin’s chief advisor and aide;

c. a new type of Russian tank;

d. a type of Russian collective farm.

36. The T-34 was

a. the secret police created by Lenin;

b. Stalin’s chief advisor and aide;

c. a new type of Russian tank;

37. Sovkhoz and Kolkhoz are

a. Two of the leaders of the secret police created by Lenin;

b. Russian victories in the Cold War;

c. new types of Russian tank;

d. types of Russian collective farm.

38. The last Communist President of Russia is

a. Boris Yeltsin;

b. Vladimir Putin;

c. Mikhail Gorbachev;

d. Leonid Brezhnev.

39. Who is associated with reform and the symbol of the axe?

a. N. Chernyshevski;

b. A. Herzen;

c. V. Belinski;

d. G. Plekhanov.

40. The "April theses"called for all of the following EXCEPT