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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 were Schlieffen’s last words about the right wing?

2. What did the wave of financial panic shut down in London?

3. What revolutionary way did Schlieffen find to get enough men for his plan?

4. Who was the ninth king attending Edward VII’s funeral whom “few observers had eyes for” (3)?

5. Why did the Belgians not have any heavy artillery?

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. Contrast Schlieffen’s bold plan of a right wing attack with his successor General von Moltke’s will to carry it out.

3. What was Plan 17?

4. What is Grey’s speech before the House in Chapter 9 about and how was it received?

5. 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?

6. What was the day called Der Tag?

7. Who was appointed the new generalissimo of the French armies and what branch of the French military did he come from?

8. Who said this and what did they mean: ”Some Damned Foolish thing in the Balkans” (71)?

9. What were the two parts of Britain’s ultimatum to Germany, of which only the second part was truly an ultimatum?

10. Why, right up until the invasion actually happened, did many still believe that the German armies would not actually invade Belgium?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the end of Chapter 11, Kitchener’s orders Sir John French to not engage the BEF in large numbers when it might be “unduly exposed to attack” (205). What effect does this ultimately have on the allied armies that are trying to work together to defeat the Germans?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the psychological effect that the Russian had on Germans, summarized by the short phrase “ ‘Kosaken kommen!’ (The Cossacks are coming!)” (270) in Chapter 15.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze why Russia “exercised a spell upon Europe” (56) that was in many ways contradictory to its actual power and situation.

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