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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What event took place two hours after Grey finished speaking to the House of Commons in Chapter 9?
2. If Schlieffen wanted to be bold in his plans, what did Moltke want to do?
3. What country created Plan 17?
4. When the British fleet is sent to the safety of its war base, Churchill says what is a “nightmare gone forever” (93)?
5. What revolutionary way did Schlieffen find to get enough men for his plan?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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).
2. In the beginning of Chapter 2 it is revealed that the alliances and counter-alliances of the various powers of Europe had created a “heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws” (18). How does this complex web of alliances help lead to the outbreak of war in 1914?
3. What other country besides Germany planned to use the open frontier of Belgium as a route of invasion, however this time only after the Germans had violated Belgian neutrality? How did they plan to do this?
4. Why, right up until the invasion actually happened, did many still believe that the German armies would not actually invade Belgium?
5. Who controlled the area of Alsace when the war began, and who had controlled it before that?
6. What was Plan 17?
7. What kind of things did King Albert of Belgium hear when he visited Berlin in Chapter 8?
8. What was unique about the thoughts of the American Minister in Brussels about what the Belgian king’s 12-year-old son was thinking as he watched his father reject the German ultimatum?
9. 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?
10. Contrast Schlieffen’s bold plan of a right wing attack with his successor General von Moltke’s will to carry it out.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the meaning and false optimism of the statement “You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees” (119) from Chapter 9.
Essay Topic 2
Break down the idea of Clausewitz’s warning that “military plans which leave no room for the unexpected can lead to disaster” (26) in regards to the German obsession with planning every moment of their invasion down to the minutest detail.
Essay Topic 3
Why is the battle of the Marne remembered by the taxis?
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