Social Studies - Second term

The assassination of which leader was one of the triggers of the First World War?

• Frederick III

• Franz Ferdinand

• Francisco Franco

• Wilhelm II

On which date and how did the WWI started?

• On July 28, 1914, with the declaration of war of Austria-Hungary on Serbia.

• On August 1, 1914, with the declaration of war from Germany to Russia

• On August 4, 1914, with the British Empire's declaration of war on Germany

• Austria-Hungary was the first nation to declare war, and from there the network of pacts and alliances launched a chain reaction of confrontantions.

What was the Russian capital at the start of the February 1917 revolution?

• Moscow

• Minsk

• Novosibirsk

• St. Petersburg

What name was given to the telegram that favored the entry of the United States into the conflict?

• Hindenburg

• Ludendorff

• Zimmermann

• Falkenhayn

Who formed the two great alliances prior to the First World War?

• Russia, France and the British Empire (Triple Entente) / Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy (Triple Alliance)

• Russia, France and the British Empire (Triple Entente) / Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (Triple Alliance)

• Italy, France and the British Empire (Triple Entente) / Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria (Triple Alliance)

• United States, France and the British Empire (Triple Entente) / Germany, Austria-Hungary and Japan (Triple Alliance)

What political regime dominated during the reign of the tsars?

• democracy

• teocracy

• autocracy

• dictartorship

Which army first used chemical weapons during WWI?

• Italy (mustard gas)

• France (irritating gases)

• Germany (chlorine)

• USA (tear gas)

What were the first political movments of opposition to tsarism?

• Liberals and Conservatives

• Communists and Socialists

• Democrats and Republicans

• Populists and a

  Anarchist

What is anarchism?

• Economic theory opposed to capitalism.

• Political doctrine that seeks the disappearance of the State and its representative bodies and institutions and defends the freedom of the individual

• Religious doctrine emerged in Russia as opposition to the Orthodox Church, led by Anark.

• A political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.

What does Bolshevik mean in Russian?

• A member of the minority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917.

• A member of the moderate non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party

• A member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which seized power in the October Revolution of 1917.

• A person with politically subversive or radical views; a revolutionary.