Unit 5 Exam - A World in Crisis

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How did many Europeans react to the outbreak of war in August 1914?

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They welcomed the war with patriotic celebration.

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What German tactic eventually drew the United States into World War I? Options: the bombing of American naval outposts, the use of submarines against merchant ships, the use of tanks on the Western Front, the use of poison gas against civilians

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the use of submarines against merchant ships

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Why did Russia lose territory at the Paris Peace Conference, despite the fact that it had been on the winning side of World War I?

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Russia was too weak to hold on to its empire following the 1917 Revolution.

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The February Revolution resulted in

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Nicholas II giving up his throne.

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What event led to the Russian Civil War?

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Lenin disbanded the new national assembly because less than 25 percent of the delegates were Bolsheviks.

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How did the Mexican Revolution affect other Latin American nations?

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It influenced them to adopt reforms.

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The mandate system created by the League of Nations after World War I granted control of large parts of the Middle East to: Great Britain and France, Germany and Russia, France and Russia, the United States and Great Britain.

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Great Britain and France.

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Britain announced its support for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine in the

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Balfour Declaration.

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Saudi Arabia earned income from the oil that was discovered there in the 1930s by partnering with American corporations.

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partnering with American corporations.

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Mohandas Gandhi’s Satyagraha movement urged Indians to resist British rule using

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civil disobedience