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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. Why did German deputies not know that the Belgians had rejected their ultimatum?
2. How many German trains were “each exquisitely scheduled to click over specified tracks at specified intervals of ten minutes” (79)
3. What humiliation in their past did the French want to avenge?
4. What revolutionary way did Schlieffen find to get enough men for his plan?
5. What did Moltke mean when he said “The deployment of men cannot be improvised.”? (79)
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What was the day called Der Tag?
3. Why, right up until the invasion actually happened, did many still believe that the German armies would not actually invade Belgium?
4. 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?
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. How was the news of war received in France?
7. How did Belgium, and King Albert, finally decide to respond to the ultimatum from Germany?
8. What ultimatum did Germany send to Brussels?
9. Who controlled the area of Alsace when the war began, and who had controlled it before that?
10. What did King Albert decide regarding calling for help from Britain and France at the end of Chapter 8?
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
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 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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