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HST EXAM 2 STUDYGUIDE | 90 QUESTIONS
| WITH GRADED A+
SOLUTIONS!!
HST
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,HST EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE | 90 QUESTIONS |
WITH GRADED A+ SOLUTIONS!!
How would you describe the soldiers' experiences of serving in the trenches?
Answer - Their shoes would rot their skin and remove flesh, devastating,
boredom with quick bursts of violence, they couldn't leave
What were the major causes of WWI? Answer - Colonial expansion, excessive
nationalism, the alliance system
What were the negative characteristics associated with excessive nationalism?
Answer - It can easily spin out of control, yielding conformity and hate. Leaders
deliberately invoke nationalism to consolidate power
Why did the alliance system backfire? Answer - It was supposed to provide
balance, but an attack on one small country ended up involving the whole
world
Who was in the Triple Alliance? Answer - Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy
Who was in the Triple Entente? Answer - Great Britain, France, Russia
Look at the map showing the countries that fought in WWI. Who fought in the
Central Powers alongside Germany? Answer - Germany, Austro-Hungarian
Empire, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
, Who fought for the Allied powers alongside Great Britain? Answer - Great
Britain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Italy, Sicily, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Russia,
Crete, Cyprus
What new weapons and technologies were used in WWI? What effect did
these technologies have on military strategy and the manner in which the war
unfolded? Answer - Machine guns allowed shifting tactics and trench warfare,
poison gas, submarines, planes, tanks, made the war destructive with 10
million deaths
There are several reasons that the US did not initially get involved in WWI. Be
able to describe them all. Answer - Irish Americans who elected democrat
Wilson do not want to join war alongside British, pacifists, war had European
causes (isolationism > not wanting to be involved)
There are several reasons that the US eventually joined WWI. Be able to
describe them all. Answer - US and Britain are particularly close, US loaned
money to British and French and if Germany wins we are not paid back,
Zimmerman (foreign minister of Germany) telegrammed Mexico promising to
give land back if they joined central powers and won, Germans bombed US
ships trading w/ Britain by submarine
What were the specific provisions contained in Wilson's Fourteen Points?
Answer - Major provisions included arbitration of disputes, general
disarmament, self determination, free trade, league of nations
Why did the US not sign the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations?
Answer - Problem for Wilson is that France and Britain don't want idealism;
they want revenge and Treaty of Versailles is punitive towards Germany.
Republicans worried that European conflict might embroil US, and Wilson
suffers a stroke in trying to mobilize public opinion against congress, leaving
Wilson unwilling to compromise
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