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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 Kaiser William II mean when he said, “If only someone had told me beforehand that England would take up arms against us!” (120)?
2. How fast did Albert read books?
3. What took place at two minutes past eight on the morning of August 4?
4. How many men did Russia have available for military service?
5. What set Bismarck apart from other German leaders?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who said this and what did they mean: ”Some Damned Foolish thing in the Balkans” (71)?
2. 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?
3. What was the day called Der Tag?
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. Contrast Schlieffen’s bold plan of a right wing attack with his successor General von Moltke’s will to carry it out.
6. 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?
7. Who controlled the area of Alsace when the war began, and who had controlled it before that?
8. 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?
9. Why, right up until the invasion actually happened, did many still believe that the German armies would not actually invade Belgium?
10. What last minute option to avoid war was presented to Kaiser William II?
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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