World War I

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During the War, soldiers lived in the trenches for weeks at a time, fighting boredom and terror and enduring cold, mud, rats, and disease.

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True

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To attack, the soldiers charged “over the top” of their own trenches and ran across “no man’s land” to the enemy’s trenches.

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True

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The Battle of Verdun was one of the bloodiest of the war, causing both sides to suffer more than a half-million casualties.

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True

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The British introduced a new weapon during the battle of the Somme–an armored vehicle called the jeep. It was still too clumsy and slow to be an effective weapon.

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False

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The year 1916 opened with the war on the Western Front still stalemated.

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True

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Later that year, the Russians, aided by France, launched an offensive against the Germans in the Somme River valley in northern France.

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False

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World War I proved to be the breaking point for czarist rule in Russia. By 1917, morale in the Russian army had reached bottom. True or False?

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True

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The provisional government, which consisted of middle-class Duma representatives, soon had a rival for power–the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies.

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True

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Did Czar Nicholas II move easily between the provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet as a moderate socialist?

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False

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The Bolsheviks’ leader, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, urged them to make plans to topple the provisional government from power.

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True