Before 1914, which countries made up the Triple Entente?

Which set of powers formed the prewar Triple Alliance?

After the Sarajevo assassination, what step began open war in Europe on July 28, 1914?

Germany’s “blank check” in July 1914 mattered because it did what?

Which neutral country did Germany invade to carry out its plan for a quick attack on France?

Why did South Slavic nationalism create danger for Austria-Hungary before World War I?

Which rivalry best shows militarism and naval competition before 1914?

In East Prussia in August 1914, German forces shattered Russia’s Second Army and took over 92,000 prisoners. Which battle was this?

Which battle stopped Germany’s first drive into France and helped turn the Western Front into a stalemate?

At the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915, which new weapon did Germany use successfully on the Western Front?

The Allied campaign at Gallipoli tried to force open which strategic waterway?

Why did the sinking of the Lusitania damage Germany’s standing with the United States?

Which 1916 battle became a symbol of French determination to hold against Germany?

The Somme offensive is often used to illustrate attrition because it did what?

Which naval battle off Denmark in 1916 pitted the British and German fleets against each other?

What did the Zimmermann Telegram propose if the United States entered the war against Germany?

Which 1918 offensive was the American Expeditionary Forces’ largest battle and part of the final Allied push?

Which event showed that Germany’s home front and monarchy were collapsing just before the armistice?

What forced Tsar Nicholas II from power in March 1917?

What did the Ottoman government carry out against its Armenian population beginning in 1915?

Lenin’s April Theses most directly pushed the Bolsheviks toward which demand?

What government did the Bolsheviks overthrow in the October Revolution?

Which treaty took Soviet Russia out of World War I in March 1918?

In the Russian Civil War, which side fought to defend Bolshevik rule?

Why did Lenin introduce the New Economic Policy in 1921?

Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan replaced the NEP with what priority?

Which idea from Wilson’s Fourteen Points was included in the Treaty of Versailles?

Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles became the basis for which demand on Germany?

Why did the Treaty of Versailles limit Germany’s army to 100,000 men?

What weakness did the League of Nations have from the start?

What was a League of Nations mandate after World War I?

Which territory did the Treaty of Versailles return to France after German rule since 1871?

Which 1929 event is commonly used as the opening shock of the Great Depression?

Why did bank failures deepen the Depression?

How did the gold standard help spread the Depression internationally?

What did the Smoot-Hawley Tariff do in 1930?

What did the 1931 failure of Austria’s Creditanstalt show about the Depression?

Why did the Depression help extremist parties gain support in Germany?

How did Mussolini come to power after the March on Rome?

Which action helped Mussolini turn Italy into a dictatorship after 1925?

What did the Reichstag Fire Decree allow the Nazi regime to do?

What power did the Enabling Act give Hitler’s government in March 1933?

What did the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 do?

What was the Holodomor of 1932-1933?

In the Spanish Civil War, which outside powers gave crucial aid to Franco’s Nationalists?

Which statement best compares the Ottoman deportations of Armenians and the Soviet famine in Ukraine?

What region did Japan occupy after the Mukden Incident in 1931?

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is most closely tied to which interwar nationalist achievement?

What did the Sykes-Picot Agreement show about Allied wartime plans in the Middle East?

At San Remo in 1920, which power received mandates over Mesopotamia and Palestine?