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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. The Cabinet in Britain divided from what event in Britain’s past?
2. What was one of the two options the Germans had for fighting a Russian offensive split into two wings?
3. Some of Russia’s deficiencies in war had been exposed in its war with what country less than a decade before World War I?
4. What did Foch say was the first condition of victory?
5. How long did Russian pessimists think the war would last, causing them to be labeled “defeatists”? (119)
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was appointed the new generalissimo of the French armies and what branch of the French military did he come from?
2. While the Germans had defeated the French in the Franco-Prussian war that ended in 1870, what condition was France in when World War I began just over 40 years later?
3. Why, right up until the invasion actually happened, did many still believe that the German armies would not actually invade Belgium?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. What kind of things did King Albert of Belgium hear when he visited Berlin in Chapter 8?
7. Who controlled the area of Alsace when the war began, and who had controlled it before that?
8. What was the day called Der Tag?
9. What did King Albert decide regarding calling for help from Britain and France at the end of Chapter 8?
10. 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.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the consequences of the Goeben and Breslau bringing Turkey into the war on the side of Germany, as discussed at the end of Chapter 10?
Essay Topic 2
Explain how the French attack in Lorraine and Prince Rupprecht’s desire to attack with the German left flank effect the German command’s willingness to stay committed to a strong right-wing-only attack through Belgium.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the objectives of the French and German attacks that culminated in the Battle of the Frontiers.
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