AP World Unit 7: WWI and Interwar

The Balkan Peninsula was called a "powder keg" because:

• the largest weapons factories were there
• it was heavily fortified/defended
• it was on the trade route to the powerful Ottoman Empire
• nationalist groups there were creating instability in the region

Which of the following best describes warfare during World War I?

• Naval battles between ships fighting over trade routes

• Quick attacks with coordinated aircraft, artillery, and infantry

• Guerrilla combatants attacking from behind trees and in cities

• Soldiers digging in trenches and coming out over the top to attack

Which statement about the technology developed during World War I is correct?

• The new technology led to fewer refugees being displaced from their homes during the conflict.

• The new technology created deadlier weapons which led to increased military casualties in battles fought during the conflict.

• The new technology led to smaller nations joining large empires following the conflict.

• The new technology led to a reduced focus on transportation improvements following the conflict.

Which event in World War I indicated the Schlieffen Plan had failed?

• Great Britain was unable to gain control of the Dardanelles.

• Germany was unable to defeat France quickly at the outset of war in 1914.

• Austria-Hungary was unable to suppress nationalist rebels.

• Russia was unable to suppress a communist revolution.

Which of the following statements is an accurate comparison of the Ottoman, Russian, and Qing Empires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

• Prior to their collapse, each of the empires attempted a series of Western-style reforms, but the ruling elites eventually failed to support the needed changes.

• These land based empires collapsed due to a variety of internal and external factors, including WWI, failure to modernize and revolution

• The Ottoman and Russian Empires survived because of the adoption of some Western-style reforms while the Qing failed because it refused to alter centuries of Chinese tradition.

• The Ottoman Empire and Qing dynasty both lost territory to aggressive European powers while Russia, acting as an aggressor, expanded its empire during this time.

Improved wartime technology during World War I led to

• Smaller nations becoming part of larger nations after the war

• A smaller number of refugees during the war

• Increased casualties in battles fought during the war

• A slowdown in transportation improvements after the war

“At school the teachers say it is our patriotic duty to stop using foreign words. I didn’t know what they meant by this at first, but now I see it—you must no longer say ‘adieu’ [‘farewell’] because that is French. It is in order to say ‘lebwohl’ [‘farewell’ in German] instead. We also have a little tin box in which we’ll put some small change in every time we slip up and use a foreign word. The contents of this little war savings box will go towards buying knitting wool. We must now knit woollen things for the soldiers.”

Diary of a twelve-year old German girl, August 1914

The passage above best exemplifies which of the following processes shortly after the outbreak of the First World War?

• The increasingly authoritarian methods used by European teachers

• The strengthening of nationalist sentiment throughout Europe

• The emergence of a pan-European antiwar movement

• The key role European women played in sustaining the war effort

1. Which of the following best describes the 1936 lithograph (entitled The Hero) by German artist George Grosz?

• A propaganda poster prepared by the Nazi Party

• A protest poster against the atrocities of the atomic bomb

• A representation of a Holocaust victim

• A post-First World War print expressing antiwar sentiment

The mobilization of state resources during World War II:

• Occurred in fascist, democratic, and totalitarian states

• Occurred in only fascist states like Germany and Italy through corporate/labor cooperation

• Occurred in only colonies of imperial powers in order to better serve their rulers

• Occurred in only countries that were lead by powerful dictators like Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini

Which of the following is NOT one of the extreme beliefs that people turned to during the low period of economic activity?

• Totalitarianism

• Fascism

• Mercantilism

• Ultra-nationalism