Chapter 28 Self-Assessment

. On June 28, 1914, members of a Bosnian Serb nationalist group assassinated the Austrian heir to the throne, _________, and his wife while they toured the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, thus unleashing the chain of events that would ultimately lead to World War I.

. From the very first, World War I was what is known as a _________, a conflict in which the belligerent parties engage in the complete mobilization of available resources in order to secure a military victory.

. Germany, with its allies Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire made up what was known as the _________, at war with Great Britain, France, and Russia, the so-called Entente Powers or Allies.

. The so-called February Revolution in Russia forced Tsar _________to abdicate and create a provisional government.

. The _________of Vladimir Lenin, previously under persecution by the provisional social-democratic government, steadily campaigned against Russian involvement in what had become a highly unpopular war and launched a takeover in the capital of Petrograd, as St. Petersburg had been renamed at the start of the conflict.

. In March 1918, in return for Russia's peaceful withdrawal from the war, the Treaty of _________obligated Russia to hand over roughly one third of the Russian Empire's population, territory and resources to Germany.

. President Wilson's war aims, embodied in his _________, sought to use the war to advance his desire "to make the world
safe for democracy."

. As a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty which brought World War I to an end, a new supra-national _________was entrusted with the maintenance of peace.

. Which of the following does not characterize the United States after the First World War?

. In 1920, the _________gave American women the right to vote.

. The anti-foreigner, anti-immigration and anti-Communist hysteria which followed the failed union strikes of 1919 culminated in the _________in 1927.

. The anti-foreigner and anti-Communist backlash after 1919 was part of a larger unease with the culture of Modernism which had been ushered in at the end of the First World War and was characterized by all but one of the following:

. Which of the following did not characterize the economic climate in the late 1920s?

. Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's prodding, Congress immediately enacted what he called the _________.

. One showpiece of President Franklin Roosevelt's anti-Depression legislation was the _________.

. _________is defined as the maintenance of a self-supporting state economic system.

. After World War I, the most strategically important focus of British and French colonialism was _________.

. The _________declared Britain's support for the idea of establishing Palestine as a national homeland for the Jewish people.

. General _________was the man behind the creation of a modern, secular Turkey that was now able to stand up against the European powers.

. In 1919, the Indian National Congress called for full _________, or self-rule from Britain, and advocated nonviolent noncooperation.

. _________was the most prominent advocate of non-violence in India in the 1920s and 1930s.

. In 1929, the newly created _________brought the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 to an end.

. In Russia, Lenin's successor, _________, built the Communist Party into an all-powerful apparatus that brutally shifted resources from agriculture into industry and lifted the Soviet Union into the ranks of the industrial powers.

. In the First Five-Year Plan of 1928, a Communist party congress officially decreed the _________as the necessary step toward the Soviet Union's accelerated industrialization.

. As part of the First Five-Year Plan, three to five percent of the "wealthiest" farmers on grain-producing lands, called _________, were "liquidated," meaning that they were either executed, sent to labor camps, or resettled on inferior soil.

. After growing disillusioned with Marxism, Italy's Benito Mussolini founded the "Italian Combat Squads," also known as the "Blackshirts," thus giving rise to the ideology of _________.

. In 1924, "Il Duce," as Mussolini styled himself, began implementing his idea of a _________, in which all sectors of society contribute in a systematic, orderly and hierarchical fashion to the health of the state.

. The _________is the name given to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 to replace Germany's imperialist government.

. Germany's NSDAP, or _________ Party, achieved 38 percent of the seats in the elections of July 1932, becoming the largest party in the parliament.

. Taking his cue from Mussolini's policies, Hitler and the Nazis _________of the Weimar Republic, purged the civil service of Jews, closed down all political parties except for the NSDAP, enacted censorship laws, and sent Communists to concentration camps.

. The _________, a new secret police force established by Hitler, set in place a surveillance system in what was now called Germany's "Third Empire".

. The German army in Poland had pioneered a new kind of warfare referred to as "lightning war," or _________.

. The Holocaust led to the murder of roughly _________, nearly six million, of Europe's Jews.

. May 8, 1945, is known as _________or "VE Day."

. The _________as it came to be known, is often cited as the modern beginning of Chinese nationalism and led shortly thereafter to the founding of a Chinese Communist Party in 1921.

. While Japan had used its control of Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan in its support of autarky and economic stability in the 1930s, its bid for empire in the Pacific was portrayed as the construction of _________.

. The _________as it came to be known, is often cited as the modern beginning of Chinese nationalism and led shortly thereafter to the founding of a Chinese Communist Party in 1921.

. President Harry S Truman made the fateful decision to have two experimental bombs dropped on _________on August 6 and 9, 1945.

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