Western Civilization Final Exam (True/False) Questions and Correct Answers
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Western Civilization
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Western Civilization
Boris Yeltsin, after his election as president of the Russian Republic, became a
political rival to Gorbachev.
~~ True
Gorbachev was overthrown in 1991 by a coup headed by the remaining hard-line
communists in Russia.
~~ False
Boris Yeltsin became so unpopular that he was defeated for reele...
Western Civilization Final Exam
(True/False) Questions and Correct
Answers
The inability of the Russian government during World War I to assure an adequate
food supply for the major cities was an important immediate cause of the revolution
of March, 1917
✓✓~~ True
The entry of the United States into World War I compelled German generals to
gamble that they could defeat Britain and France before American manpower and
materiel arrived in significant quantity.
✓✓~~ True
Käthe Kollwitz was a German propagandist who wrote several pamphlets glorifying
war.
✓✓~~ False
At Versailles, Lloyd-George—the British prime minister—wanted a "hard peace" that
would render Germany harmless
✓✓~~ False
, John Maynard Keynes, a critic of the Versailles settlement, argued that the
peacemakers had made no provision for the economic rebuilding of Europe.
✓✓~~ True
The Russian loss of the 1904-05 war with China was one of the triggering events of
the 1905 revolution.
✓✓~~ False
A major mistake by Nicholas II in World War I was his refusal to direct military affairs.
✓✓~~ True
The working class was best able to adjust to the great European inflation that
resulted from World War I.
✓✓~~ False
The British clashed with the Irish throughout the 1920s
✓✓~~ True
The German regime that emerged after World War I is called the Weimar Republic.
✓✓~~ True
German post-World War I reparations payments to France were not changed by the
Dawes Plan
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