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Example Question #1446 : Ap World History
What European Empire was crushed by the end of the Spanish-American War?
Italy
France
Spain
Great Britain
Spain
Once the Americans defeated Spain in the Spanish-American war and gained much of Spain's former colonies in the Pacific, Spain's Empire was crushed.
Example Question #1 : War And Civil Conflict 1900 To Present
Belief in the "domino theory" encouraged US involvement in ongoing conflicts in __________.
Philippines
Vietnam
Guam
France
Puerto Rico
Vietnam
The "domino theory" refers to the belief that if one country adopts communism (or "falls" to it), then its neighboring countries will "fall" too. It was used to justify intervening in the fight between Communist North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam.
Example Question #2 : War And Civil Conflict 1900 To Present
Kaiser Wilhelm II led the German empire during which war?
The Franco-Prussian War
World War I
The 100 years War
The Crimean War
World War II
World War I
Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last German emperor, and was deposed in 1918 after a 30 year reign.
Example Question #182 : War And Civil Conflict
Mutually Assured Destruction is a concept most closely linked to which 20th century conflict?
The Cold War
The Vietnam War
The Korean War
World War II
World War I
The Cold War
Mutually Assured Destruction refers to the prevalent philosophy during the Cold War that if either the USSR or the USA launched a nuclear attack, the other could retaliate with sufficient speed and power that both would be destroyed. This kept the Cold War from erupting into nuclear conflict.
Example Question #3 : War And Civil Conflict 1900 To Present
In both the Franco-Prussian war and the Russo-Japanese war, machine guns were existent but largely ineffective because they were placed with the artillery, which meant that at the beginning of major battles they were destroyed before they could be used. This gave war planners the false assumption that they were ineffective, which contributed to a huge loss of life when they were finally placed correctly during the ____________.
Russian Revolution
First World War
Battle of Midway
Persian Gulf War
Chinese Civil War
First World War
During World War I, huge losses were incurred by combatants when they sent unarmored soldiers against machine guns.
The Russian Revolution was bloody, but grew out of World War I.
The Chinese Civil War was bloody, but by that time military planners already knew how to deal tactically with machine-guns.
By the time of the Battle of Midway, war planners already knew the effectiveness and danger of machine-guns.
By the time of the Persian Gulf war, war planners were using global positioning systems (GPS) and air strikes, machine-guns were already well understood.
Example Question #4 : War And Civil Conflict 1900 To Present
The Chinese Civil War can be categorized most correctly as __________.
a civil war instigated primarily by the Japanese invasion
a long civil war punctuated by a Japanese invasion in the middle
a short civil war which ended for good when the Japanese invaded
a war in which all participants were staunchly pro-communist
a war in which all participants were staunchly anti-communist
a long civil war punctuated by a Japanese invasion in the middle
The Chinese Civil War lasted almost half a century, in the middle of which the Japanese invaded.
After the Japanese invasion, many factions within the Chinese civil war joined forces against the invaders, but fighting resumed once the Japanese had been defeated.
Although the Japanese invasion certainly changed the dynamic of China's Civil War, the war began before the Japanese invasion.
Some factions within the Chinese Civil War were anti-communist, while others were supported by Moscow and pro-communist.
Example Question #4 : War And Civil Conflict 1900 To Present
The assassination of which world leader lead to the beginning of World War I?
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany
Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
Czar Nicholas II of Russia
George V of England
Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
When Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of the Austria-Hungary Empire visited the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, he was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrillo Princip. As a result, Germany aligned with Austria-Hungary against Serbia (and it's major ally Russia), and soon nations were taking sides and war broke out. This assassination was the spark that ignited the growing nationalist and militaristic tendencies that had been growing throughout the end of the 19th century.
Example Question #5 : War And Civil Conflict 1900 To Present
Trench Warfare, first widely used in WWI, features all of the following except _____________.
Air to ground combat
The widespread use of machine guns and poison gas
Significantly higher death rates per battle
Hand to hand combat
A "technology over tactics" strategy
Hand to hand combat
Advances in technology led to a completely new style of warfare that came with the turn of the 20th century. While hand to hand combat fell out of style, armies would dig trenches to protect their front lines, which they would defend with Machine guns and heavy artillery. The result were vast stretches of "no man's land" between trenches that were virtually deserted for fear of being gunned down. These mass killing technologies led to significantly higher death rates.
Example Question #186 : War And Civil Conflict
What concept describes warfare the enlists all of a country's resources including its citizens, media, food supplies, and economy?
Trench warfare
Supply War
Citizen's War
Total War
People's War
Total War
WWI brought the concept of Total War to new heights, in this global war the conflict stretched far beyond the military. Factories were re-purposed for the war effort, propaganda was spread, and food was rationed. In many nations conscription was established to recruit more actively for the armed forces.
Example Question #6 : War And Civil Conflict 1900 To Present
The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919 and most largely affected what nation?
Serbia
Russia
France
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Germany
The Treaty of Versailles placed almost total blame for WWI on Germany and imposed major punishments on them including: stripping them of domestic and oversees territories, limiting the size of the military, imposing harsh economic sanctions. Resentment born from this treaty would eventually cause Hitler's rise to power and World War II.