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Exam #5
World History Since 1500
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Chancellor Otto von Bismarck crafted a German foreign policy designed to do all of the following except | maintain an alliance between germany and russia |
| In the 1890s, why did France sign an alliance with Imperial Russia? | french wanted an ally to help them take revenge on germany for franco-persain war |
| Before World War I, why did the United Kingdom and Imperial Germany fail to sign an alliance? | keiser wilhem IIs bellicose statements and planned to build a navy derailing negoiations |
| Which three nations made up the Triple Entente? | france, russia, UK |
| Why was Imperial Russia unable and unwilling to intervene on Serbia's behalf during the 1908 Crisis? | russia was still recovering from its defeat by japan in 1905 |
| During the 1st Balkan war, the goal of Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria was to | drive turks out of europe |
| Before the outbreak of World War I, Serbia pursued a policy designed to accomplish what? | overthrow the army |
| How did Austria-Hungary react to the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand? | they immediately blamed serbia for its death |
| How was Gavrilo Princip able to assassinate Arch Duke Ferdinand? | archdukes car stalled infront of where priceep was eating |
| Germany's Schlieffen Plan required all of the following except | german army to move through neutral belgium |
| In the summer of 1914, what reason did Italy give for not living up to their treaty obligations with Germany and Austria-Hungary? | italy argued since germany and austia-hungary were waging not waging a defensive war and italy had no obligation to fight |
| While Imperial Russia fielded some 12 million men in World War I they were largely ineffective. Which of the following is not a reason for Russia's poor performance in the war. | poor fighting spirit |
| The German strategy for the battle of Verdun was | use battle to kill as many french soldiers as possible |
| In the summer of 1916, when the German navy sailed out to fight the British navy, what did the Germans hope to accomplish? | germans hoped to win a decisive victory and thereby break british blockade |
| During World War I, many nations instituted rationing. This was done for all of the following reasons except | to ensure that the man at the front received all of the supplies needed |
| During World War I, the Eastern Front differed from the Western Front in what way? | on eastern front there was more movement of armies and less static trench warfare |
| When war broke out in the summer of 1914, President Woodrow Wilson announced that the United States | must be impartial in thought as well as in action |
| For many reasons, American public opinion favored the allies during the war. Pick the one reason below that does not support this conclusion. | the american people fondly remembered frances assistance during the american revolution |
| What diplomatic event convinced President Wilson to declare war on the Central Powers? | zimmerman telegraph |
| On November 11th 1918, the German government agreed to a ceasefire with the victorious allies. This cause a rumor to begin circulating in Germany. What was that rumor? | german had never been defeated and could ave still won the war |
| What was the significance of the opium trade in China in the nineteenth century? | reversed trade imbalance in favor of britain |
| How was the Taiping Uprising different from other peasant rebellions in China? | its program included the abolition of private property |
| In light of what was happening to China as depicted in Map 19.1 in the textbook, which of the following phrases was used by many Chinese to describe their country during the nineteenth century? | carved up like a melon |
| Which of the following reflects the goal of the policies introduced by the Chinese state in the 1860s and 1870s to address the problems facing China? | reinvigorate china by selectively borrowing from the west |
| Which of the following characterizes the goal of the Tanzimat reforms initiated by the Ottoman leadership in the mid-nineteenth century? | establish economic, social, and legal foundation for a strong centralized state |
| Which of the following contributed to China's problems in the nineteenth century? | states failure to maintain flood control and public security |
| Islam retained a hold on its civilization in the twentieth century more firmly than Confucianism did in China because Islamic civilization | had many independent centers |
| What was a result of the reform program launched by the Japanese leadership in the late nineteenth century? | a dramatic transformation of the social structure of japan |
| Which of the following characterizes Japanese colonial policies in Taiwan and Korea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? | japanese colonialism matched or exceeded brutality of european colonialism |
| Which of the following was a target for attack in the new nationalism that emerged in China at the turn of the twentieth century? | qing dynasty |
| What could countries with a sphere of influence in China do within their respective spheres? | build railroads |
| Which of the following contributed to the contraction of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century? | nationalists-inspired indepenence movement in greece, serbia, bulgaria, and romania |
| In what respect were Qing China and the Ottoman Empire similar in the nineteenth century? | both were semi-colonies within the informal empires of europe |
| Which of the following was a goal of the Young Ottomans? | establishment of a european-style democratice, constitutional regime |
| In the nineteenth century, which group in the Ottoman Empire advocated a program of radical secularization and modernization along European lines? | young turks |
| The many rules and regulations issued by the Tokugawa shogunate reflect its goal to | freeze japanese society in the interests of stability |
| Which of the following reflects how Japanese society was changing during the Tokugawa era? | participation of samurai in commerce |
| What did the United States expect to gain by sending a naval fleet to Japan in 1853? | opening of japanese ports for trade |
| In what way was Japan in a better position than China or the Ottoman Empire in its encounter with Western imperialism? | western powers |
| Which of the following events established Japan as an economic, political, and military competitor in Asia? | russo-japanese war |
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