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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. Were the French unaware of the possibility of an attack from the German right wing?
2. What were Schlieffen’s last words about the right wing?
3. The artful, indolent, pleasure-loving Sukhomlinov was the Minister of War for what country?
4. The doctrine of the offensive in France created even further disdain of what part of the military?
5. What event took place two hours after Grey finished speaking to the House of Commons in Chapter 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the beginning of Chapter 2 it is revealed that the alliances and counter-alliances of the various powers of Europe had created a “heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws” (18). How does this complex web of alliances help lead to the outbreak of war in 1914?
2. What last minute option to avoid war was presented to Kaiser William II?
3. What is Grey’s speech before the House in Chapter 9 about and how was it received?
4. 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?
5. What was Plan 17?
6. Who said this and what did they mean: ”Some Damned Foolish thing in the Balkans” (71)?
7. Why, right up until the invasion actually happened, did many still believe that the German armies would not actually invade Belgium?
8. 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?
9. What ultimatum did Germany send to Brussels?
10. Who was appointed the new generalissimo of the French armies and what branch of the French military did he come from?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The “Schlieffen Plan” was primarily aimed at knocking France out of a war before Russia could mobilize its armies to help. Explain how this plan became the obsessive focal point of all German plans before war began.
Essay Topic 2
Describe in your own words the appearance of the waves of field gray uniforms and the general scene of the initial entrance of the German armies into Belgium from Chapter 11.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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