History Ch. 24 Review
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_____________________________________________ brought a letter from President
Fillmore asking Japan to open more foreign trade. - -Commodore Matthew Perry
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_____________________________________________ led the Bolsheviks and staged a
takeover of the provisional government. He then became dictator of Russia. - -Vladimir
Lenin
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_____________________________________________ was the German kaiser during
WWI. - -Wilhelm II
_____________________________________________ was the U.S. president during
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WWI- he brought the U.S. into the war and came up with the League of Nations. -
-Woodrow Wilson
A sphere of influence is _____________________________________________. - ✅✅-a
region where only one imperial power has the right to invest or to trade
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At the Paris Peace Conference, the U.S. wanted:
_____________________________________________ - -1) Reduction of military
forces by all nations 2) Self-determination 3) Democratic principles of government 4)
cooperative association of nations
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Germans used the _____________________________________________ which sunk the
Lusitania and 4 American merchant ships, bringing the U.S. into the war. - -u-boat
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In the _____________________________________________, Feb-Dec 1916, a battle was
fought in the trenches which France won. - -Battle of Verdun
Trenches gave many soldiers _____________________________________________, and
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there was a risk of _____________________________________________ from rain. -
-PTSD, drowning
What are the 4 elements that make up total war? - ✅✅ -mobilization, blurring roles of
soldiers and civilians, rejection of compromise, and government control of society
What are the contributing factors to the rise of imperialism? - ✅✅-money, rivalry, social
Darwinism/racism, paternal concern
What caused the Opium Wars? - ✅✅ -Britain sold Opium (a drug) on the Chinese black
markets because they wanted to trade with China, but China didn't like that
What countries made up the Triple Alliance? -✅✅-Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
What countries made up the Triple Entente? - ✅✅-Russia, France, Britain
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