Semester Exam 2023

The Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government, dissolved the assembly, and took control, renaming themselves the ___________.

• Communist Party

• Soviet Party

• Mensheviks

• Duma

The Russian revolutionaries angered the Allies by ___________.

• signing a peace treaty with the Central Powers.

• spreading Bolshevik ideals to Europe.

• the Bolshevik victory in the elections of the Duma

• attacking Germany at Tannenberg.

By 1916, conflict on the western front

• had settled into a deadly stalemate in which hundreds of thousands of lives were expended for a few feet of trench.

• had resulted in victory for the British and French troops who pushed the exhausted enemy to the borders of Germany.

• had resulted in the surrender of France and the establishment of the Vichy government.

• had become a shifting game of rapid maneuver with few major battles.

What brought an end to the fighting on the Eastern Front in 1917?

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

• Zimmerman telegram

• Paris Peace Conference

• Fourteen Points

Czar Nicholas II  _____ the Duma when it demanded government reforms.

• elected

• dissolved

• kidnapped

• applauded

The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to give rights to ______.

• the Congress

• the federal government

• individuals

• the states

The provisional government angered the soviets because it decided to ____ the war.

• continue

• negotiate

• send more supplies and men

• end

The U.S. Constitution called for

• a balance of power between the branches of government.

• a powerful legislative branch.

• a powerful executive branch.

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• powerful state governments.

What was the name of the group that conspired to assassinate Archduke Francis Ferdinand?

• the Serbian People’s Front

• the Bosnian Militia

• the Black Hand

• the Red Band

A war of attrition is one fought

• with constant diplomatic contact.

• with stealth.

• with new technology.

• by trying to outlast each other.