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WW1 QUIZ
QUESTION 1
1.
Which of the following was a way that World War I affected the home fronts of the belligerent states?
Work in arms factories barred to women
Increasing government control of public opinion
As the body count and economic cost of the war reached startling heights, European governments began to crack down on political dissent on the home front, at the same time undertaking reforms aimed at centralizing political power and diverting money to the arms industry (in which many women found jobs) to keep up with the massive demand for military goods.
The vast size of the armies combined with the first widespread mutual use of modern arms in combat to produce casualties figures that pleased Europe and its governments.
1 points QUESTION 2
1.
True or false: Late Qing industrialization was unsuccessful in reversing the decline of the dynasty,
in part because many Chinese saw the changes as being the result of foreign influence rather than domestic initiatives.
True
False
1 points QUESTION 3
1.
Britain’s goal in the Opium War (1839–1842) was to
to force China to open to the West
to outlaw the use of opium worldwide, and as such, the British attacked Qing China in order to destroy the Chinese opium trade.
to change the trade deficit with China
to legalize the opium trade in China
1 points QUESTION 4
1.
Which of the following were causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917?
Widespread disenchantment with tsarist government
Germany’s poor treatment of Lenin during the war
Success of Bolsheviks in controlling the political left in Moscow and Petrograd
The Provisional Government’s decision to end the war
1 points QUESTION 5
1.
Which of the following was a way that World War I affected the home fronts of the belligerent states?
Increasing government control of public opinion
Declining male population as soliders were dying in war
Work in arms factories barred to women
Political decentralization
1 points QUESTION 6
1.
The Meiji Restoration, which began in 1868, got its name from the toppling of the Tokugawa government at the hands of forces loyal to the Meiji (or “enlightened”) emperor. The Meiji government continued the Tokugawa policy of open trade and relationships with Asian neighbors and the outside world.
True
False
1 points QUESTION 7
1.
Which of the following were long-range or immediate causes of World War I?
Assassination of an Austrian noble
Germany’s abandonment of its Austrian alliance
Fears of revolution among Europe’s leaders
Shift to all-volunteer armies
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