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CLEP Western Civilization: WW 1 - Early 20th century
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CLEP Western Civilization: WW 1 - Early 20th century
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1. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: ____________________ should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations - which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea -

2. An authorization granted by the League of Nations to a member nation to govern a former German or Turkish colony.

3. Secured by Russia - France - and Germany - it required Japan to retrocede the South Manchurian Peninsula to China in return for an additional indemnity of 30 -000 -000 Taels

4. The Treaty that included the terms of surrender for the Germans after WWI - which the United States Congress refused to sign

5. Multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. It was the most grandiose of a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I.

6. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: A free - open-minded - and absolutely impartial ________________ - based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests o

7. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: All ____________ should be freed and the invaded portions restored - and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine - which has unsettled the peace of

8. Supreme German Commander on the German Western Front

9. The economic policy of the government of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1928 - representing a temporary retreat from its previous policy of extreme centralization and doctrinaire socialism.

10. Series of relentless German assaults on a network of French forts astride the road to Paris - designed to bleed the French Army white. Although a tactical French victory - the casualties were horrendous (over 700 -000)

11. The political revolution that brought about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and returned control of the country to direct imperial rule under the emperor Meiji - beginning an era of major political - economic - and social change

12. One of the thirteen out of the Fourteen Points that was rejected: Adequate guarantees given and taken that ___________ will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.

13. An excellent American rifleman who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for single-handedly capturing a small division of German soldiers

14. The originally-French territories that were annexed by Germans

15. Militarism - Navalism - Nationalism - Alliance System - Political instability - Imperialism

16. Fighting behind rows of trenches - mines - and barbed wire: the cost in lives was staggering and the gains in territory minimal

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18. President of United States from 1912-1920

19. Alliance that bound Britain and Japan to assist one another in safeguarding their respective interests in China and Korea. Directed against Russian expansionism in the Far East - it was a cornerstone of British and Japanese policy in Asia until after

20. Act passed Aug. 10 - 1911 - in the British Parliament which deprived the House of Lords of its absolute power of veto on legislation.

21. The assassin of Franz Ferdinand

22. Emperor of Germany; he fired Bismarck

23. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. (Creation of the League of Nations)

24. German commander who was victorious over the Russians at the Battle of Tannenberg

25. This event marked the end of fighting in WWI