Causes of WWI
Tensions leading to WWI were partly the result of European rivalries on this continent
Africa
The United States’ involvement in World War I was the direct result of
unrestricted submarine warfare (sinking of the Lusitania)
Vladimir Lenin
The government that replaced Kaiser William II in Germany
the Weimar Republic (a democratic republic)
Russian Communists were known as
Bolsheviks
Nationalist movements in this country led to the outbreak of WWI
Austria-Hungary
The First and Second Battle of the Marne were a result of attacks by
Germany
Two reasons Russia was weakened by 1917
1905 defeat by Japan, 1905 revolution, loss of over 2 million so far in WWI, lagging Russian industry
Two things Wilson advocated for in his Fourteen Points
German battle plan which stated that they would fight Russia in the East while invading France in the West
Schlieffen Plan
The way in which the Industrial Revolution influenced WWI
This country betrayed Germany and Austria-Hungary
Italy
Significant loss of Russian territory
The three countries the made the major decisions at the Paris Peace Conference
Russian economic policy where the Russian government centralized their power, took control of most industries and banks, and seized grain from peasants
War Communism
The assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Serbian group known as the Black Hand
Two ways public opinion was manipulated during the war
Two reasons Russian Communists prevailed in the civil war
Well-disciplined Red Army, disunity of White armies' political ideologies, unity of Red Army political ideology, War Communism, Red Terror and the Cheka, Russian patriotism following White army invasion, etc.
Two requirements of Germany in the Treaty of Versailles
Take blame for starting the war, pay $33 billion in reparations to the Allies, eliminate Air Force while reducing army and navy, demilitarize the Rhine, etc.
The German government which was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles
Weimar Republic
Two secret alliances that influenced the outbreak of WWI
Across Europe, much of the hatred for other nations and support for the war was due to
government propaganda
Three groups that opposed Bolshevism
Conservatives, Liberals, Anti-Leninist Socialists
Two states that ceased to exist following WWI
The Ottoman Empire & Austria-Hungary
The campaign by Russian Communists to execute over 200,000 suspected anti-Communists
[+100 secret military police that carried it out]
Red Terror
[Cheka]