First World War
MAINS
What is the acronym for the five causes of WWI?
100,000
How many soldiers was the German army limited to in the Treaty of Versailles?
Duma
What was the name of the Russian Parliament accorded after the 1905 Revolution?
Industrialisation and collectivisation
What were the key projects for the economy in Stalinist Russia?
War of position
A style of warfare where soldiers move openly across the battlefield, such as at the start of the First World War
Scarborough
What was the name of the British town shelled by the German navy in December 1914?
Idealist
How would we describe Woodrow Wilson's position towards peace after World War I?
Switzerland
Where were Lenin and the Bolsheviks in exile during the war?
Holodomor
What was the name of the famine that wreaked destruction in Ukraine in the early 1930s?
Conscription
The policy of compelling civilians to join up as soldiers
Canary Girls
What was the slang term for British women who worked in munitions factories?
How much land did Russia lose in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Peace, land and bread
What was the slogan of the Bolsheviks in 1917?
NKDV
What was the acronym for the secret police who operated in Stalinist Russia?
League of Nations
The organisation founded at the Treaty of Versailles to resolve international disputes diplomatically
What made the German's choose Verdun as a place to launch their major 1916 offensive?
Because the government had refused to raise taxes during the war
Why were the Allies so unsympathetic to German complaints about the burden of reparations?
The Church and the Army
Which two institutions had its senior posts filled by the Russian aristocracy?
Continuous Revolution
What was Trotsky's theory to which Stalin was opposed?
New Economic Policy
Where did the mutiny of British soldiers against their living conditions break out in September 1917?
Demilitarised
What was the new status of the Rhineland following the Treaty of Versailles?
A single day
How long did the 'reign' of Grand Duke Michael last in March 1917?
Sergei Kirov
Whose death unleashed the wave of political repressions known as the Great Purge?
The right of a people to choose in which nation they are governed; one of Wilson's 14 points for peace.