APE Unit 8: Pre & Post WWI

How did the war on the eastern front differ from the war on the western front?

A worldwide economic depression from 1929 through 1939.

What does the “middle way” refer to?

What was primary political weakness of the White forces as they fought against the Bolsheviks?

The German gov’s printing of $ to pay unemployment benefits to workers striking in Ruhr led to

encouraged the union movement and launched a far-reaching program of social reform.

The German Communist Party reserved their greatest hatred and sharpest barbs for

Why were the Balkans considered the “powder keg of Europe”?

What idea does the functionalist architecture of Le Corbusier promote?

The alliance of Austria, Germany, and Italy.

Unemployment in the U.S. averaged only 5 percent in the 1920s but in 1933 soared to about

British support of a National Home for the Jewish People in Palestine.

What did the “war guilt clause” in the Treaty of Versailles declare?

Which political group dominated parliamentary governments of Germany in the mid to late 1920s?

What happened to Armenian inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire during World War I?

Name the British political party that was the main opposition to the Conservative party?

Type of fighting used in World War I behind rows of trenches, mines, and barbed wire.

How did France and Belgium react when Germany refused to make its second reparations payment?

What kind of world did Franz Kafka portray in fiction like The Trial (1925)?

What was the result of Allied support of the White armies in the Russian civil war?

Why did the Germans accept the Treaty of Versailles?

What part of Otto von Bismarck’s alliance system did William II abandon?

Why did Austria-Hungary deliberately choose war in July 1914?

In twentieth century literature, the stream-of-consciousness technique uses

How did Henri-Philippe Pétain maintain order among French troops by late 1917?

What did the Balfour Declaration of November 1917, announce?

Why was Britain, not France, ready to conciliate Germany after the Versailles peace settlement?

The signatories of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact agreed to

Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 peace proposal

How did Jean-Paul Sartre think that people could live authentically in the twentieth century?

In the twentieth century, what was John Maynard Keynes known for?

Peace treaty signed in March 1918 between the Central Powers and Russia t

What was the main argument of logical positivism in the twentieth century?

Which nations joined the war on the side of the Central Powers?

What issue contributed to tensions between Germany & Britain in the first decade of the 1900s?

resolved the economic problems of Germany and international tensions in Europe in 1924?

Why did Italy, after declaring neutrality in 1914, decide to join the Triple Entente in 1915?

German plan for a lightning attack and a quick defeat of France before turning on Russia.

The Great Depression did not hit Britain as hard as the U.S. or Germany, in part because

How did Paul von Hindenburg & Erich Ludendorff react to Germany’s loss in the war?

Who was Alexander Kerensky?

A philosophy that sees meaning only in those beliefs that can be empirically proven.

led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a provisional government.

Bolsheviks seized grain, rationed, nationalized banks & industry, required everyone to work.

Who assassinated Grigori Rasputin in 1916?

A permanent international organization, designed to avert future wars.

Who was the director of Triumph of the Will?

Einstein’s theory of time & space are relative to observer & only speed of light is constant.

granted large U.S. loans to promote recovery in Germany so they could pay their reparations.

What happened to Ukraine & Belarus as a result of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

Traditional arts & amusements of people in villages & small towns was overshadowed by

What was the primary consequence of the First Moroccan Crisis in 1905?

The principle that buildings should serve the purpose for which they were made.

What was the immediate cause of British entry into the First World War?

What was the common effect of western-front offensives during the First World War?

What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916?

The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia prior to and during the First World War.

How did moderate Social Democrats in Germany put down radical Communist Spartacist Uprising?

How did Western powers react to declarations of independence by Syria & Iraq following WWI?

A philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence

James Joyce’s Ulysses weaves ironic parallels between the adventures of Homer’s hero Ulysses &

What is the composer Arnold Schönberg known for?

What was the February Revolution in Russia in 1917?

The notion that peoples should be able to choose their own national governments.

artistic movement of the 1920s & 1930s that attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior

The 1919 peace settlement that ended war between Germany and the Allied powers.

What did the Popular Front do after its 1936 victory in France?

Sigmund Freud’s terms to describe the 3 parts of the self & the basis of human behavior.

meeting of 2,000 - 3 people modeled on the revolutionary soviets of 1905.

What did orthodox economists believe in the 1930s?

What did the theories of Albert Einstein assert?

Following WWI, what was one of the most difficult domestic problems faced by governments?

The American stock market crash of October 1929 was primarily the result of

What did President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration (NRA) attempt to do?

What was French premier Georges Clemenceau’s opinion at the Paris Peace Conference?

Walter Rathenau is remembered for his

character’s thoughts & feelings are described as they occur; means to explore the human psyche.

How did Lenin respond to the peasants’ seizure of land when he rose to power in 1917?

What aided in the rapid growth of the American stock market in the 1920s & its collapse?

Germany’s initial offensive was stopped on the outskirts of Paris at the Battle of

Somewhat stereotypical image of the modern and independent working woman popular in the 1920s.

movements typified by radical experimentation that challenged traditional forms of art.

Vladimir Lenin’s radical, revolutionary arm of the Russian party of Marxist socialism.

government plans & controls economic social life supply armies with supplies and weapons.

What did the Swedish response to the Depression involve?

What did Germany’s Auxiliary Service Law require?

Which German politician called off passive resistance in the Ruhr & agreed to pay reparations?

For artists such as the Dadaists and Surrealists, what was the purpose of art?

In his writings on human psychology, Sigmund Freud asserted that

Throughout the First World War, what mistake did military commanders repeatedly make?

A German interdisciplinary school of fine & applied arts

The nineteenth-century Danish theologian Søren Kierkegaard taught that

Bismarck’s alliance system was designed to isolate France and to

Since the U.S. didn't ratify Versailles treaty, French placed hope for future security on

What did the Schlieffen Plan call for in 1914?

Germany (with Austria) was solely responsible for the war and had to pay reparations

Gabriel Marcel found the answer to the postwar broken world in