Nationalism and Imperialism in the MidEast and Russia

• All of the following were characteristics of the Mid-East from 1815-1915 except one.   Which one of the following is most definitely NOT true.
a. Some people in eastern and southern Europe wanted independence from the Ottoman Empire.
b. Russia had ethnic and strategic interests in this area.
c. England wanted to control water routes (e.g. the Suez Canal) and land routes (e.g. through Iran and Afghanistan) to India.
d. The Ottoman Empire (Muslims) was rapidly growing in power and influence.

• Which of the following was Not true during the reign of Tzar Nicholas II?
a. Russia was allied to England and fought against Germany in World War I.
b. His son Alexis was suffering from hemophelia.
c. Communists were growing in power and influence.
d. Many Russian people were demanding political, economic and social reforms.
e. His wife, Alexandra was born in Russia, and was immensely popular there.

• Which of the following was Not true about "Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905) in Russia?
a. One result was the October Manifesto which promised a Duma (legislative body).
b. One cause was the loss of the Russo-Japanese War.
c. One cause was a peaceful demonstration petitioning the tzar for liberal reforms.
d. One result was the imprisonment and execution of the tzar and his family by communist leaders.

• Who was the first ruler of Communist Russia?                  a. Nicholas II  
 b. "Nicolai" (Vladimir Ulrich) Lenin      c. Karl Marx      d. Michael Bakunin  e. Joseph Stalin

• Which of the following was NOT true about the Treaty of Brest-Litvosk?
a. It concluded Russia's participation in World War I and entailed an immense loss of people and territory.
b. It entailed uniform tariffs among all the states within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
c. It concluded Russia's participation in the Russo-Japanese War, and forced Japan to ackowledge that Manchuria was Russia's colony.
d. It was an agreement between China and Russia which clarified where the boundary was between those two countries.

• The Bolsheviks were:    a. Capitalists;     b. Democratic liberals;    c. Communists;    d. Russian Christians;    e. Russian navigators.

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