World Civ Final

Question 1

Dual Alliance

Answer 1

Bismarck’s Alliance System- Germany & Austria-Hungary

Question 2

Triple Entente

Answer 2

Russian-British-French defensive alliance

Question 3

Von Schlieffen Plan

Answer 3

How to win a quick 2-front war: quick invasion of France

Question 4

Helmut von Moltke

Answer 4

Executed The Von Schlieffen Plan

Question 5

Erich Ludendorff

Answer 5

Fought with Hindenburg & liberated E. Prussia

Question 6

Paul von Hindenburg

Answer 6

General in WWI, President of Germany, & appointed Hitler chancellor

Question 7

Philip Petain

Answer 7

Sued for peace (France WWII)

Question 8

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 8

Goals after WWI- 14 Points, democracy, & League of Nations

Question 9

Nicholas II & Alexandra

Answer 9

Disbands Duma & Abdicates

Question 10

Rasputin

Answer 10

The man with “healing abilities”

Question 11

V. I. Lenin

Answer 11

Returned to Russia with Germany’s assistance “Peace, Land, Bread!” The October Revolution (Bolshevik Coup) Signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Question 12

New Economic Policy

Answer 12

Implemented by Lenin- small-scale capitalism where Gov’t retained control of banks, heavy industry, & transportation

Question 13

Joseph Stalin

Answer 13

Bolshevik Revolutionary promoted to party secretary. Ran against Trotsky with polar opposite platform. After beating Trotsky, adopted his platform. Political & Military purges (Gulags) Makes treaties with France, Czechoslovakia, & attempts alliance with Nazi Germany.

Question 14

Leon Trotsky

Answer 14

Ran against Stalin with a platform of rapid industrialization, collectivization of farms, & international spread of communism. Removed from the party in 1927. Exiled in 1929. Assassinated in Mexico- 1940

Question 15

Alexander Kerensky

Answer 15

Prime minister of provincial government in Russia after abdication of Nicholas II

Question 16

New Weapons of WWI

Answer 16

The Machine Gun, Chlorine Gas, & Airplanes

Question 17

Lusitania

Answer 17

British passenger boat sunk by German U-boats

Question 18

Moroccan Crisis

Answer 18

Wilhelm gives speech against French

Question 19

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Answer 19

Prince of Hungary- Assassinated by Gavrilo Princip

Question 20

Sarajevo-1914

Answer 20

The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand- Plot involved high-ranking officials of Serbian Army

Question 21

Mao Zedong (China)*

Answer 21

Not on Test

Question 22

Jiang Jieshi (China)*

Answer 22

Not on Test

Question 23

Gustav Streseman

Answer 23

Created a new currency (German Inflation control)

Question 24

Russian Civil War

Answer 24

Red Army vs. White Army
Red- Leon Trotsky & ruthlessness (Cheka)
White- disorganized conservatives/socialists

Question 25

Western Front in WWI (major battles)

Answer 25

The Battle of Verdun- Falkenhayn vs. Petan The Battle of the Somme- Brit offensive to relieve French at Verdun, British tanks, hundreds of thousands of casualties The Battle of the Marne- Massive offensive by Ludendorff; ends further German offensive capabilities

Question 26

Benito Mussolini

Answer 26

Editor of Avanti & Popolo d'Italia. Wounded in WWI. Led the Fasci di Combattimento & The Squadristi. "I am Fascism"

Question 27

Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)

Answer 27

Wounded in WWI, assigned job infiltrating extremist groups after WWI ended, & took over GWP (extremist group) The 25 Points Speech Arrested for Beer Hall Coup (Munich Putsch) Writes "My Struggles" in jail

Question 28

Reinhard Heydrich

Answer 28

2nd in command of SS. Devised the special mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen) & oversaw the planning for the Final Solution

Question 29

Sigmund Freud*

Answer 29

Not on Test

Question 30

Albert Einstein*

Answer 30

Not on Test

Question 31

Herman Göring

Answer 31

Air Minister (Luftwaffe) & 1st Gestapo Leader

Question 32

Heinrich Himmler

Answer 32

Combined the Gestapo & police under SS authority

Question 33

Ernst Roehm

Answer 33

Leader of the Stormtroopers; Killed during the Night of the Long Knife

Question 34

Kurt von Schleicher

Answer 34

Former Chancellor of the late Weimar Republic; Killed during the Night of the Long Knife

Question 35

Joseph Göbbels

Answer 35

Propoganda Minister extraordinaire

Question 36

Nazi view of women

Answer 36

Jobs- teaching, nursing, domestic service, & social service | Guardians of German culture/Preservation of German Race

Question 37

Versailles Treaty & Art. 231 (World War I)*

Answer 37

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Question 38

Anschluss

Answer 38

German-Austrian unification (forbidden by Treaty of St. Germain)

Question 39

Dawes Plan

Answer 39

Lowered & varied reparations according to economy

Question 40

Great Depression

Answer 40

European Governments feared massive inflation Price of agricultural goods dropped The circle of loans

Question 41

Ataturk = Kemal Pasha

Answer 41

Turkish nationalist that led resistance against Greek-British forces

Question 42

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Answer 42

Britain & France agreed to divide up Ottoman Empire

Question 43

Balfour Declaration

Answer 43

British promise Jews homeland in Palestine

Question 44

Ibn-Saud

Answer 44

King of newly formed Saudi Arabia

Question 45

Hussein ibn Ali

Answer 45

Lost to Ibn-Saud for control of Arabia

Question 46

Faisal Hussein

Answer 46

First King of Iraq

Question 47

Wilhelm II

Answer 47

Leader of Germany Fires Bismarck Allows Reinsurance Treaty to lapse Creates new government towards the end of WWI then abdicates

Question 48

WW II = major Battles

Answer 48

The Invasion of Poland The Battle of Dunkirk- British retreat (France alone) The Battle of Britain- Heavy German bombing Operation Barbarossa- The Invasion of Russia Pearl Harbor The Battle of Coral Sea The Battle of Midway The Battle of Stalingrad- German army surrender D-Day The Battle of the Bulge

Question 49

Stalingrad (battle)

Answer 49

German army surrounded & surrenders; Germans now fighting defensive war on eastern front

Question 50

Battle of Britain

Answer 50

Months of heavy bombing on Britain

Question 51

Pearl Harbor

Answer 51

Surprise attack by Japanese

Question 52

Poland 1939

Answer 52

Invaded and divided by Russia & Nazi Germany

Question 53

Holocaust

Answer 53

Approximately 5.5 to 6 million Jews killed

Question 54

Winston Churchill

Answer 54

Prime Minister of Great Britain

Question 55

Tannenberg (battle) WWI

Answer 55

Crushing defeat for the Russian Army

Question 56

Marshall Plan

Answer 56

Economic aid to Europe

Question 57

Truman Doctrine

Answer 57

US support to nations "subjugated by armed minorities"

Question 58

Merle Haggard – “Walkin’ on the Fightin’ Side of Me” (Song)

Answer 58

Pro-American nationalist song aimed at those against war (Vietnam)

Question 59

Beatles – “Revolution” (Song)

Answer 59

Song expressing doubt about revolution (Vietnam)

Question 60

Rolling Stones – “Street Fightin’ Man” (Song)

Answer 60

Song about protesting war (Vietnam)