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Week Eight Quiz

 

1.
Question 1
Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were the core members of which alliance in early 1914?

1 point

  • Central Powers
  • Tripartite Pact
  • Entente Powers
  • Holy Alliance
  • Axis Powers

2.
Question 2
France, Russia, and Great Britain were the core members of which alliance by late 1914?

1 point

  • Entente Powers
  • Central Powers
  • Axis Powers
  • Tripartite Pact
  • Holy Alliance

3.
Question 3
According to the presentation, while the outbreak of World War I came as a shock to many people at the time, businessmen were not surprised, as analyses of the bond markets prior to the outbreak of war indicate a general trend toward higher interest rates and other hedges against looming instability.

1 point

  • False
  • True

4.
Question 4
According to the presentation, one of the major reasons the outbreak of World War I came as a shock to so many was due to the fact that the relative peace in Europe since 1815 had been profitable, and it seemed increasingly inconceivable that actions would be taken to jeopardize economic growth.

1 point

  • True
  • False

5.
Question 5
According to the presentation, which European power, more than any other, held the strategic initiative to risk general war in 1914?

1 point

  • Great Britain
  • Russia
  • Germany
  • France
  • Austria-Hungary

6.
Question 6
According to the presentation, which of the following was true of the German Kaiser on the eve of World War I?

1 point

  • The Kaiser was a popularly elected leader.
  • The Kaiser was the head of a unitary German government and fully controlled the imperial budget.
  • The Kaiser tended to represent the bellicose public against the nobility, which preferred continued peace.
  • The Kaiser was a figurehead for the real chief executive, the popularly elected Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg.
  • The Kaiser represented a class of aristocrats, many of them landed nobles, who were increasingly at odds with the prevailing politics of the empire.

7.
Question 7
In December 1912, Germany secretly affirmed war plans that called for a decisive invasion of which country in the event of general war breaking out over the Balkans?

1 point

  • Great Britain
  • Russia
  • France
  • Serbia
  • Bulgaria

8.
Question 8
According to the presentation, which of the following best describes Kaiser Wilhelm’s attitude at the end of 1912?

1 point

  • Hopeful that British diplomatic intervention would avert the danger of war in the Balkans
  • Increasingly fatalistic about an impending war with Russia and France
  • Desperate to avoid the outbreak of war in Europe
  • Determined to maintain the current balance of power in Europe
  • Fearful of the increasing power of Austria-Hungary

9.
Question 9
According to the passage by Helmuth von Moltke: “_____________ will not be vanquished in this war, it is the only nation which can at present take over the leadership of mankind toward higher goals…”

1 point

  • The Slav peoples
  • Britain
  • Germany
  • Russia
  • The Latin peoples

10.
Question 10
In the passage, Helmuth von Moltke criticizes the British as being which of the following?

1 point

  • Spiritual barbarians
  • Past the zenith of their development
  • Backward
  • Materialistic
  • All of the above

11.
Question 11
According to the presentation, the European governments had difficulty mobilizing their populations for war in 1914 because vast portions of the citizenry were ambivalent about going to war over a narrow conflict in the Balkans and saw no higher ideals at issue.

1 point

  • True
  • False

12.
Question 12
The British decided to enter the war on the side of France and Russia after the German invasion of which country?

1 point

  • Belgium
  • France
  • Russia
  • Serbia
  • The Netherlands

13.
Question 13
Near the end of 1914, which of the following countries entered the war on the side of the Entente Powers?

1 point

  • Bulgaria
  • The United States
  • The Ottoman Empire
  • China
  • Japan

14.
Question 14
Near the end of 1914, which of the following countries entered the war on the side of the Central Powers?

1 point

  • Bulgaria
  • China
  • Japan
  • The Ottoman Empire
  • The United States

15.
Question 15
The Serbian government, at least some of which had hoped that the assassination of Franz Ferdinand might spark a conflict that would weaken Austria-Hungary, had succeeded in occupying large swaths of Austro-Hungarian territory by the end of 1915.

1 point

  • False
  • True

16.
Question 16
According to the presentation, American President Woodrow Wilson held which of the following positions in 1916?

1 point

  • He sympathized with the war aims of the Central Powers, but he thought the United States should remain neutral in order to protect trade relations.
  • He was actively looking for ways to expand America’s colonial domains while the European powers were preoccupied with war.
  • He sympathized with the war aims of the Entente Powers, but he thought the United States should remain neutral in order to protect trade relations.
  • He had no sympathy for the war aims of any of the belligerents, and he wanted to keep the United States out of the war while searching for diplomatic means of bringing the war to an end.
  • He desperately wanted the United States to enter the war on the side of the Entente, but he was blocked by public opposition and an isolationist Congress.

17.
Question 17
According to the presentation, what kind of leverage did Woodrow Wilson have over the European powers in 1916? Choose all that apply.

1 point

  • Wilson’s neutrality was viewed as genuine, and this gave him standing as a potential broker of a settlement.
  • Despite American neutrality, the American military buildup of 1915 made the United States the strongest military in the world. Wilson hoped to leverage this military superiority to get the belligerents to the negotiating table.
  • American sea trade with Germany was substantial, and the threat of halting this trade was a source of considerable leverage.
  • Even though the American army was small, the threat of an American entry into the war was still something the Germans wanted to avoid.
  • American loans to Great Britain were substantial, and the threat of halting these loans was a source of considerable leverage.

18.
Question 18
According the presentation, what is the reason the United States missed its opportunity to launch a peace move in the late summer/early fall of 1916, at a time when Germany and Britain might have been open to such a move?

1 point

  • Wilson waited to make a peace move until after the presidential election of November 1916, at which point it was too late.
  • Wilson was waiting to make a peace move until after the American military buildup was complete, so that he would have greater leverage.
  • German unrestricted U-boat warfare had shifted American public opinion away from peaceful neutrality and in favor of entering the war on the side of the Entente.
  • The United States was preoccupied with dealing with a domestic financial panic.
  • Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke in August 1916 and was not well enough to launch a peace move.

19.
Question 19
Which country’s government collapsed in early 1917 under the strain of the war effort?

1 point

  • Austria-Hungary
  • The Ottoman Empire
  • Great Britain
  • Germany
  • Russia

20.
Question 20
According to the presentation, which of the following contributed to the American decision to enter the war in 1917? Choose all that apply.

1 point

  • Great Britain threatened to cut off its lucrative sea trade with the United States.
  • German unrestricted submarine warfare threatened American trade and could not be tolerated.
  • Woodrow Wilson believed that the best way to have a hand in shaping the peace and influencing the shape of the postwar world was by bringing the United States into the war.
  • Woodrow Wilson realized that the United States had a better chance at expanding its overseas empire if it became a belligerent in the war.
  • Public outrage developed over the German attempt to convince Mexico to declare war on the United States.

 

 

 

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