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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 did Italy decide to do “with the clarity of insight possessed by the Latin intellect”?
2. What was in the large, red dispatch box brought in to the British government leaders at the end of Chapter 7?
3. If Schlieffen wanted to be bold in his plans, what did Moltke want to do?
4. What is the bigger a division or a corps?
5. What were Schlieffen’s last words about the right wing?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Contrast Schlieffen’s bold plan of a right wing attack with his successor General von Moltke’s will to carry it out.
3. 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.
4. What were the two parts of Britain’s ultimatum to Germany, of which only the second part was truly an ultimatum?
5. 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?
6. What color uniforms had the British and Germans changed to, and what country had not yet changed its uniforms before the war began?
7. What last minute option to avoid war was presented to Kaiser William II?
8. How was the news of war received in France?
9. What was the day called Der Tag?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the way that the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand sparked the outbreak of World War I.
Essay Topic 2
Why is the battle of the Marne remembered by the taxis?
Essay Topic 3
Explain why when Wilson asked Foch what the smallest British military force was that would be of assistance to the French, Foch answered: “A single British soldier–and we will see to it that he is killed” (49).
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