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WH Chapter 20
WWI
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was the steel manufacturer that gave money to build the Peace Palace in the Neatherlands | Andrew Carnegie |
| The alliances called "Bismarck's System" were an attempt by the German chancellor to isolate | France |
| The Triple Alliance included what countries | Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy |
| The Entente Cordiale was a "friendly understanding" between what two countries | France and Britain |
| The Schlieffen Plan was designed to | defeat France before Russia could organize for war |
| The immediate cause of the entrance of Britain into WWI was | The invasion of Belgium by Germany |
| Russia was defeated in WWI because | She was economically and militarily unprepared for war, the Baltic Sea was closed by German warships, and a spontaneous uprising led to the fall of the czar. |
| The entrance of the Italians into the war was important because | the Germans and Austrians were forced to fight on another front |
| The sinking of the Lusitania was important because | American protests forced the Germans to temporarily halt unrestricted submarine warfare. |
| Reasons why the United States entered WWI | Alliance with Britain and France, Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare, and Germany's attempts to bring Mexico into the war. |
| Why did Germany agree to sign an armistice to end WWI | She thought the Fourteen points would be the basis for the peace treaty |
| What were the results of the Treaty of Versailles | Poland was established as an independent country, Alsace-Lorraine was given back to France, League of nations took control of Germany's overseas colonies. |
| What country was forbidden Anschluss with Germany after WWI | Austria |
| Which American banker loaned money to Germany after the war? | Charles Dawes |
| By signing the Locarno Pact, Germany | recognized her western borders as permanent |
| secret treaty signed between Germany and Russia | Reinsurance Treaty |
| Took Russia out of WWI | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| Wilson's peace plan for ending WWI | The Fourteen Points |
| Signed between Germany and the Allies in Paris | Treaty of Versailles |
| Dismantled the Ottoman Empire | Treaty of Sevres |
| Treaty signed by Austria recognizing Hungary's independence | Treaty of St. Germain |
| Organization designed to discuss differences rather than to fight over them | League of Nations |
| Nonaggression treaty signed by Germany, Belgium, and France in 1925 | Locarno Pact |
| An attempt to disarm the great naval powers in the early 1920's | Washington Naval Conference |
| Treaty renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy" | Kellogg-Briand Pact |