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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 the German navy eventually resort to as a belated effort to break the British naval blockade?
2. How did general Joffre want to treat the Belgian army?
3. What did the German armies do during the first four days of Dubail’s and Castelnau’s offensive into Lorraine?
4. What haunted Ludendorff as he directed the German Eighth Army to attack Samsonov’s Russian army?
5. What kind of units were the first Germans to cross over the Belgian border?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did OHL offer to send Ludendorff three corps from the Western Front?
2. After the Battle of the Frontiers, with the Allies in retreat, what part of the German line attacked through Belgium and France, and what farm implement is their attack compared to?
3. What did the two telegrams intercepted by German command in the beginning of Chapter 16 say, and what decision did it help the Germans make?
4. What was the Allied leadership beginning to realize by the end of August 23?
5. What decision did Lanrezac make in Chapter 15 which he believed Joffre would disapprove of?
6. On August 5 Emmich’s brigades attacked what place and how? How did the attack initially go?
7. What was the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) doing from August 6-10?
8. How did the German fleet of the Goeben and Breslau, sold to the Turks but still commanded by the German Admiral Souchon, provoke Germany's enemies and drag Turkey into the war?
9. While everyone was watching the extreme German right wing, what other conflict was going on in Lorraine?
10. What happened to the people of Andenne when they were accused of attacking the Germans, and how did the Germans use this information?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the objectives of the French and German attacks that culminated in the Battle of the Frontiers.
Essay Topic 2
What are the consequences of the Goeben and Breslau bringing Turkey into the war on the side of Germany, as discussed at the end of Chapter 10?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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