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WH-FINAL EXAM (BASICS) LATEST QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS)
World War I Answer: Another name for the Great War
Triple Alliance Answer: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy (Initially)
Triple Entente Answer: France, Russia, Great Britain
Central Powers Answer: Another term for Triple Alliance
Allied Powers Answer: Another term for Triple Entente
Franz Ferdinand Answer: Archduke of Austria-Hungary
M.A.I.N. Answer: Long-term causes of WWI
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand Answer: Short-term cause of WWI
Nationalism Answer: Pride in one's country
Militarism Answer: Glorification of the military, building it up
Alliances Answer: Agreements to have one another's back
Imperialism Answer: Expanding your countries influence elsewhere, largely for natural
resources and power
Balkans (includes Greece and Bulgaria) Answer: Geographic area south of Austria-Hungary
and north of Mediterranean Sea. "Powder-Keg" leading to WWI
Poison Gas Answer: Early form of chemical warfare
Trench Warfare Answer: Defenses made to protect and live in along "no man's land"
U-Boats Answer: Nickname for German word for submarines
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Erich Maria Remarque Answer: Wrote "All Quiet on the Western Front," about the German
military experience in WWI
Propaganda Answer: Spread of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause
Reparations Answer: Payments for war damage
Treaty of Versailles Answer: Agreement ending WWI, but arguably leads to WWII
Mandate System Answer: System of administering territories by Western powers after WWI
League of Nations Answer: The U.S. never joins this for fear of being dragged into European
affairs. It also doesn't have an official military to back it. These two things in part led to its
downfall
Karl Marx Answer: Idea of the Proletariat uprising to gain rights, depicted in his "manifesto."
V.I. Lenin Answer: Bolshevik leader who leads the communist revolution in Russia
J. Stalin Answer: Takes over the USSR after Lenin dies
Socialist Answer: USSR-United Soviet ____ Republic
Armenian Answer: Major genocide of the early 20th century
"Peace, Land and Bread" Answer: the Bolshevik Party in 1917 gained the support of the
peasant class because they promised them:
Collectivize Agriculture Answer: Stalin's First Five-Year Plan was primarily a(n) plan to do
what?
Stalin's "five-year plans" were aimed at Answer: building heavy industry and improving
transportation/agriculture (Collectivizing farms)
appeasement Answer: an attempt to avoid conflict by meeting the demands of an aggressor
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WH-FINAL EXAM (BASICS) LATEST QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS)
World War I Answer: Another name for the Great War
Triple Alliance Answer: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy (Initially)
Triple Entente Answer: France, Russia, Great Britain
Central Powers Answer: Another term for Triple Alliance
Allied Powers Answer: Another term for Triple Entente
Franz Ferdinand Answer: Archduke of Austria-Hungary
M.A.I.N. Answer: Long-term causes of WWI
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand Answer: Short-term cause of WWI
Nationalism Answer: Pride in one's country
Militarism Answer: Glorification of the military, building it up
Alliances Answer: Agreements to have one another's back
Imperialism Answer: Expanding your countries influence elsewhere, largely for natural
resources and power
Balkans (includes Greece and Bulgaria) Answer: Geographic area south of Austria-Hungary
and north of Mediterranean Sea. "Powder-Keg" leading to WWI
Poison Gas Answer: Early form of chemical warfare
Trench Warfare Answer: Defenses made to protect and live in along "no man's land"
U-Boats Answer: Nickname for German word for submarines
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Erich Maria Remarque Answer: Wrote "All Quiet on the Western Front," about the German
military experience in WWI
Propaganda Answer: Spread of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause
Reparations Answer: Payments for war damage
Treaty of Versailles Answer: Agreement ending WWI, but arguably leads to WWII
Mandate System Answer: System of administering territories by Western powers after WWI
League of Nations Answer: The U.S. never joins this for fear of being dragged into European
affairs. It also doesn't have an official military to back it. These two things in part led to its
downfall
Karl Marx Answer: Idea of the Proletariat uprising to gain rights, depicted in his "manifesto."
V.I. Lenin Answer: Bolshevik leader who leads the communist revolution in Russia
J. Stalin Answer: Takes over the USSR after Lenin dies
Socialist Answer: USSR-United Soviet ____ Republic
Armenian Answer: Major genocide of the early 20th century
"Peace, Land and Bread" Answer: the Bolshevik Party in 1917 gained the support of the
peasant class because they promised them:
Collectivize Agriculture Answer: Stalin's First Five-Year Plan was primarily a(n) plan to do
what?
Stalin's "five-year plans" were aimed at Answer: building heavy industry and improving
transportation/agriculture (Collectivizing farms)
appeasement Answer: an attempt to avoid conflict by meeting the demands of an aggressor
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