2. What did the wave of financial panic shut down in London?
(a) The Royal Treasury.
(b) The Stock Exchange.
(c) Buckingham Palace.
(d) The Parliament.

3. Which of these was not one of the three military minds that thought the war would last years, not months?
(a) Churchill.
(b) Moltke.
(c) Kitchener.
(d) Joffre.

4. Some of Russia’s deficiencies in war had been exposed in its war with what country less than a decade before World War I?
(a) The Vietcong.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The Chinese.
(d) The Japanese.

5. How long did Russian pessimists think the war would last, causing them to be labeled “defeatists”? (119)
(a) Two years.
(b) Four years.
(c) One year.
(d) Six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Foch say was the first condition of victory?

2. What took place at two minutes past eight on the morning of August 4?

3. What was the prime objective that governed French policy?

4. When King Albert of Belgium rejected the German ultimatum, what did he think the consequences would be?

5. The artful, indolent, pleasure-loving Sukhomlinov was the Minister of War for what country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What color uniforms had the British and Germans changed to, and what country had not yet changed its uniforms before the war began?

2. Contrast the differences between the Elder von Moltke’s view of the next war being a long war and the general opinion of the younger generation who thought the next war would not feasibly last very long at all.

3. What did King Albert decide regarding calling for help from Britain and France at the end of Chapter 8?

4. How does the breakdown of German corps on their left, center, and right at the end of Chapter 2 (26) give the appearance of a sweeping hammer blow?

5. What last minute option to avoid war was presented to Kaiser William II?

6. What was the day called Der Tag?

7. Why did Britain and France create joint military plans in 1905 after Russia was defeated by the Japanese on the other side of the world?

8. What ultimatum did Germany send to Brussels?

9. What was meant by the line, “'When you march into France’ he said, ‘let the last man on the right brush the Channel with is sleeve’" (25).

10. How did Belgium, and King Albert, finally decide to respond to the ultimatum from Germany?

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