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OSWALD · **on:** Sep 4, 2018

Why might the Schlieffen Plan have become obsolete by 1916?

a. France was nearing completion of its Maginot line of defenses.
b. Tank technology would have become sufficiently advanced to turn war in favor of the defense.
c. Germany's economy and industrial might would have surpassed its neighbors and precluded the need for war.
d. Russia was using French money to build railroads that could have transported its troops faster.
e. The United States would have completed its alliances with Britain and France and tipped the odds too highly against Germany.

Question 2

Which of the following is the most accurate description of Sino-Soviet relations?

a. China and the Soviet Union/Russia have had a long history of close relations. It is
only in the last 20 years that they have opposed each other.
b. Before communist governments came to power in both countries, the two
countries had almost no interaction.
c. Historically, China acquired large quantities of Russian territory in the nineteenth
century. This accounts for much of Russia's current animosity toward China.
d. China and the Soviet Union/Russia have had a long history of cool and even
hostile relations. One of the rare occasions of truly friendly relations was in the
1950s, and another is now.