Midterm Exam with Answers - Studies in Modern European History | HIS 544, Exams of World History

Download Midterm Exam with Answers - Studies in Modern European History | HIS 544 and more Exams World History in PDF only on Docsity! (3 % \ (J')' His 544 GY Spring 2006 Prof. Beck Midterm Examination Part I Please answer tivo of the followin! four essay,questions. Structure'your essay clearly and set : paragraptrs vis'ibly apart. 'Be precise and succinct. 'Everything you write'should relate directly tdttre question. Do'not forgei that it is above all substance,that matters. 1. Discuss the origins of the Firsi World War by bxamining the relationships;among the gr.eat '.European powers_between 1894 (thb year of the conclusion of"the Fran0o-Russian Entente) and L9I4. In the course of your analysid, make sure to answer the'following sub-questions: What part did imperial rivalries and the naval race play in the formation of the new alliance system? In what way did the Boer War and the'Anglo/Japanese Alliance '(1902) blaze the trail for an '" Anglo/French und'erstanding - the Entbnte Cordiale of,April'1904? What.was the signihcance of the Bosnian Crisis of 1908 for the relationships among the Great Powers'? , 2. Provid" un ou"ruiew (comprehensive and at the same time iletailed) of the course of the First World War before America's'entry into. the war in April of 1917,. Which factors accounted for the failure of the Schlieffen Plan in I9l4? In what way:were the different theatres of war intercdnnected? . Which powers fought on thq side of the Entente, which on the side of the Central Powers, and when and why did these other combatants enter the war? In particular, bxplain the campaigns and battles of Gallipoli,,Tarnow-Gorlice, Verdun, the Somme, and the Brusilov Offensive. Whpt was the significance,,of the "greatbattlds" of 1916? Why did the United States"enter the war in April 1917? n ,, 'i" 3. In chapter V of his.book on Imperial Germany during World War I, Roger Chi6kering discusses the war's deleterious effects on morale that created strains on.the home f1ont. r Briefly recount.what Chickering tells us about scarcity of foodstuffs (in the subchapter on d "cold and hunger.'), .ttre ?ising crime rate, the early oppositioh, and strike"s during'the war. 4.'Tha deleghtes at the Versailles peace conference, like their predecessors at the Congress bf Vienna a hundred years earlier, aimed tocreate a lasting peace. Discuss the legacy of Ver#illes with respect to some.of the main points regarding the settlement with Germany, in particular r6parations,'ttre issue of war guilt,. the demilitarized status of th.e Rhineland, the Saar , region, the Sudetenland, Austria, Dar:zi5 ahd the loss'of teriitories in east Elbian Prussia and upper Silesia: In what way did these issues/ territories become sources of political contbntion a gerieration later? d . :- Part II 1. 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BEF flocqn, longs conte on dhayerd TRAD Geter tinct fe onslausit Bett conten © leeaeh Flac esi ose te goo gt plas “hy tyoesp Kelme, ts Rarely fe Pot at Coavpie ean Sep eSn kis Gane b Garselly Rov _ Gounsexe le Fencte “pee sper kha *Sgidec crew 26 bee fe Fear Grom Alsace Grice extemal 2 eee “Br, He eansutiy” Goat & fe Herne. Linaly Malka wilroracetel bun tb oi “ee Brey a dienkendid Wh jabs teat 6. Why was the first World War such ah important watershed.in European ‘history? What wé fe Pres the most important social and political changes brought about by the "Great War" as it soon me came to be called? {6 [Write the answer on the back of this sheet.] . . ‘one