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World Civ II Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was in alliance with Germany? | Austria and Italy |
| Who was in alliance with France? | Great Britain and Russia |
| Which army had grown to be the largest between 1890 and 1914? | Russia |
| Which Austrian Archduke was assassinated on June 28, 1914? | Franz Ferdinand |
| Who was the Serbian terrorist organization that was dedicated to the creation of a pan-Slavic kingdom? | Black Hand |
| Who declared war on Serbia on July 23? | Austria |
| Tsar Nicholas II ordered partial mobilization of what army against Austria? | Russia |
| Who informed the tsar that Russia's mobilization plans were based on a simultaneous war between Austria and Germany? | General Staff |
| Who declared war on Russia when Russia ignored the ultimatum issued? | Germany |
| What called for a minimal troop deployment against Russia? | The Schlieffen Plan |
| At what battle was German advances halted only 20 miles outside of Paris? | Battle of the Marne |
| Which Front was bogged down in trench warfare? | The Western Front |
| The Russian army was defeated by Germany at what battle? | Battle of Tannenberg |
| What was the name of the British ship that German U-boats sank on May 7, 1915? | Lusitania |
| What brought the United States into the war? | Germany's return to unrestricted submarine warfare |
| Who said this? "who remain to till the soil and man the factories are no less a part of the army than the men beneath the battle flags"? | Woodrow Wilson |
| What allowed the public authorities to arrest dissenters as traitors? | Defense of the Realm Act |
| Who gave women the right to vote immediately after the war? | Germany and Austria |
| Who was the Siberian peasant that the tsarina regarded as a holy man because he was able to stop the bleeding of her son? | Rasputin |
| What were the women of Petrograd chanting as they marched down the streets? | "Peace and Bread" and "Down with Autocracy" |
| What was known as the legislative body? | Duma |
| Who led the Provisional Government? | Alexander Kerensky |
| Who were the councils of workers' and soldiers' deputies? | soviets |
| Who was part of the Marxist Social Democratic Party? | Mensheviks and Bolsheviks |
| Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks? | Lenin |
| Who was the chairman of the Petrograd soviet? | Leon Trotsky |
| What were the Bolsheviks later known as? | Communists |
| What treaty made Lenin give up eastern Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic provinces? | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| Who was known as the Red Army? | Bolsheviks |
| Who was defeated by Americans at the Second Battle of the Marne? | Germans |
| On what day did Germany agree to an armistice? | November 11, 1918 |
| Who is Yugoslavia under control of? | Austria-Hungary |
| Who makes their name known at the Battle of Tannenberg? | German General Paul von Hindenburg |
| What was the women of Petrograd going on strike known as? | The March Revolution |
| What caused a civil war to break out in Russia? | the murdering of the tsar and his family |
| Who were the Loyalists? | Whites |
| Who were the Communists? | Reds |
| Who was president during WWI? | Woodrow Wilson |
| Who demanded a reform of German government? | General Ludendorff |
| Who formed the Social Democrat party? | Frederick Ebert |
| Which country played a less important role in the Big Four? | Italy |
| Who was determined to punish Germany? | Clemenceau and Lloyd George |
| What declared Germany responsible for starting the war and ordered Germany to pay reparations? | War Guilt Clause |
| What Plan reduced reparations and stabilized Germany's payments on the basis of its ability to pay? | Dawes Plan |
| What guaranteed Germany's new western borders with France and Belgium? | Treaty of Locarno |
| What condemned the traditional view that in a free economy, depressions should be left to work themselves out? | General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes |
| Who was from England? | David Lloyd George |
| Who was from France? | George Clemenceau |
| Who was from Italy? | Vittorio Orlando |
| What was the only point that Wilson could keep? | League of Nations |
| What killed 50-100 million worldwide? | Spanish Flu |
| What was the 20's known as? | the period of the lost generation |
| What percentage of the working population was out of work? | 25% |
| Who was the leader of Italy? | Il Duce |
| Who was Il Duce? | Benito Mussolini |
| What did the Communist party become known as? | Ultranationalists |
| What were the Fascists known as? | bundle of sticks |
| What happened in October 1922 when Congress was held in Naples? | king makes Mussolini premier |
| What treaty returned land that had belonged to the Catholic Church? | Lateran Treaties |
| What was the Nazi Program contained in? | Mein Kampf |
| What is a joining together of Germany and Austria? | Anschuluss |
| What were the two houses in German government? | Reichtag and Reichrat |
| Who heads the ministry of propaganda? | Joseph Goebels |
| Who heads the Gestapo secret police? | Heinrich Himmler |
| Who was the head of appeasement? | Nebile Chamberlain |
| What is the French line of enforcement against Germany? | Maginot Line |
| What is the German line against France? | Segfried Line |
| Who were the Axis Powers? | Italy, Germany, Japan |
| Who were the Allied Powers? | France, England, Poland |
| What did Russia take as a result of annexing Poland? | Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland |
| Who returns to England as prime minister? | Winston Churchill |
| What was it called when a lot of English and other allied troops face capture? | Miracle at Dunkirk |
| Who is under the direction of the Vichy Government in France? | Marshall Petain |
| Who headed Free France? | General Charles de Gaulle |
| Who said "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" | Churchill |
| Why did Hitler pulls Luftwaffe away from the coast to attack London? | b/c of Churchill's threats |
| Who was known as the desert fox? | General Rommel |
| What was significant about Churchill and Roosevelt meeting in the Atlantic Ocean? | they signed the Atlantic Charter, which was mutual goals for ending WWII |
| Why was Pearl Harbor attacked? | it is where the American naval fleet was |
| What stops Japan from getting closer? | Battle of Midway |
| When did the U.S. strike Japan to remind them that we can get there? | Doolittle's Raid |
| Who introduces island hopping? | McArthur |
| When was island hopping introduced? | at the Battle of Guadacanal |
| When was Germany defeated by Russia? | Stalingrad |
| What was the beginning of the Cold War? | Battle of the Bulge |
| What was known as the peace conference where the U.S. made concessions with Russia? | Yalta |
| What day was it when Hitler committed suicide? | V.E. Day May 8, 1945 |
| What was the name of the planning of the bomb? | Manhattan Project |
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