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Published on: 04/11/2019
Imperialism and its Onslaught
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Take MCQ History Test1.
How did the impact of Great Depression reflect in politics?
2.
Highlight the successful accomplishments of League of Nations.
3.
Examine the causes and consequences of the 1905 Revolution in Russia.
4.
Analyse the impact of Russian Revolution on the world outside Russia.
5.
Highlight the sequence of events after America’s entry into the War.
6.
What do you know of the fearsome U-boats and Q-ships?
7.
How was Trench Warfare fought?
8.
How did the first Moroccan crisis happen?
9.
Describe the circumstances that favoured Mussolini and Hitler to establish fascist governments in Italy and Germany respectively.
10.
The Treaty of Versailles was harsh and humiliating for Germany. Substantiate the statement.
11.
“Marx supplied sparks and Lenin lit the fire”- Elucidate.
12.
Enumerate the causes and the consequences of the First World War.
1.
1. In England, the Labour Party was defeated in the general elections of 1931.
2. In USA, the Republican Party was rejected by the people in successive elections for about twenty years after the Depression.
3. The Fascist Parties seized government in Italy and Germany.
4. Argentina, Brazil and Chile saw a change of government.
2.
1. A dispute arose between Sweden and Finland over the sovereignty of the Aaland Islands.
2. The League ruled that islands should go to Finland.
3. The frontier between Poland and Germany in Upper Silesia, which was successfully resolved.
4. Greece invaded Bulgaria, and the League ordered a cease fire.
3.
1. Nicholas encouraged Russian expansion in Manchuria, provoking a war with Japan in1904.
2. The resulting Russian defeat led to strikes and riots.
3. Opposition to the Tsar grew Consequences.
4. Nicholas was forced to grant a constitution and establish a parliament, the Duma.
5. The left-wing parties that formed a soviet of workers delegates in St Petersburg.
4.
1. The revolution fired people s imagination across the world.
2. In many countries, communist parties were formed.
3. Soviet Union encouraged the colonies to fight for their freedom and gave all out support to them
4. Debates over key issues, land reforms, social welfare, workers rights, gender equality started taking place in a global context.
5.
1. America's entry with its enormous resources made Allied victory a foregone conclusion.
2. The first to surrender was Bulgaria.
3. The Turks opted for an armistice.
4. Germany was now left with the impossible task of carrying on the struggle alone.
6.
1. During the First World War Germany's most fearsome weapon was the submarine or U-Boat.
2. The Germans adopted a strategy to starve Britain by sinking every ship it could.
3. The Q-ships were Britain's answer to the Germany.
4. Britain provoked the attack on Germany through these ships and then resorted to retaliation.
7.
1. First World War compelled soldiers to burrow into the soil to obtain shelter and survival.
2. The Trench system is the two to four trenches that go parallel to each other.
3. The trenches were dug in a zigzag manner.
4. So that no enemy, could fire for more than a few yards down Its length.
8.
1. Relying on their understanding with England (Entente Cordiale, 1904) the French decided to go ahead with their plan in Morocco.
2. Early in 1905, a French mission arrived at Fez, a city in Morocco.
3. French treating it as a part of French protectorate.
4. Germany protested so French agreed to refer the dispute to a European conference.
9.
Circumstances for the establishment of a fascist state in Italy:
1. The breakdown of the parliamentary government which had proved unable to cope wi the disorders following the end of the First World War.
2. The inability of the Democratic Party leaders to combine and act decisively facilitated Mussolini s triumph.
3. The dispute between the communist and their opponents led to the conditions for civil.
4. It ended with the march of the Fascists on Rome.
5. Impressed by the show of force, the King Immanuel III invited Mussolini to form a government. Circumstances for the establishment of a fascist state in Germany:
6. Republican government in Germany fell, as the Communists refused to collaborate with the Social Democrats.
7. In the wake of this, industrialists, bankers and the people of the royal family, who had the background, wanted to subordinate Hitler to their control.
8. They approached President von Hindenburg and appointed Hitler as Prime Minister.
9. The Nazi regime then put an end to parliamentary democracy in Germany.
10.
1. Germany handed over Alsace and Lorraine to France.
2. The coal mines in the Saar Valley were to be ceded to France.
3. All German colonies became mandated territories under the League of Nations.
4. Germany was disarmed and was forced to give up practically all of its submarines. and battleships.
5. Germany was forbidden to have any airplanes, either military or naval.
6. Its army was to be limited to 100,000.
7. The union of Austria and Germany was forbidden.
8. Germany was to acknowledge and respect the Independence of Austria.
9. Germany and its allies were held responsible for the loss and damage suffered during the war.
11.
1. Marx and Engels held the firm view that the existence of the bourgeoisie was as necessary.
2. Influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx, Lenin believed that the way for freedom was through mass action.
3. The failure of the Tsar's regime, the defeat by Japan, the Sunday massacre land the defeat of the First World War, led to the revolution in Russia.
4. The Menshevik government was established in Russia through the revolution. Lenin schemed to overthrow it.
5. His slogan of All power to the Soviets soon won over the workers leaders.
6. The slogan' Bread, peace and land' attracted the victims of the war.
7. Devastated by war time shortages, the people were attracted by the slogan of Bread, Peace and Land.
8. Lenin persuaded the Bolshevik Central Committee to decide on an immediate revolution.
9. Accordingly, key government buildings, including the Winter Palace and the Prime Ministers headquarters, were seized.
12.
1. The great powers of Europe had come to be arrayed in two opposing camps.
2. They are called the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy) and the Triple Entente (Britain; France and Russia).
3. The UK supported France in a Moroccan dispute between Germany and France.
4. Austria-Hungary suddenly announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which it's protectorate.
5. The two wars that took part in the Balkans led the countries to the First World War.
6. Austria-Hungary Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Principle, a Serbian country.
Results:
1. The Peace Conference opened in Paris.
2. The peace treaty was signed with Germany in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
3. Separate treaties were drawn up and signed by the Allies with Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey
4. The League 0f nations was formed for world peace.
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