World War I
These secret agreements between countries were one of the main causes of WWI.
What are alliances?
Leader of the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Artistic style that used rigid cube like impressions to convey meaning.
What is cubism?
This treaty forced Germany to bear responsibility and cost of WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Slogan of the Bolshevik's during the Russian Revolution that declared the demands of the people.
What is Peace, Land, Bread?
Ailment many WWI soldiers suffered from due to wet and muddy conditions of the trenches causing severe tissue damage and infection.
What is trench foot?
Economic philosophy of the Bolsheviks.
What is Marxism/Communism?
Rebellious art movement that had the explicit goal of rejecting capitalism, logic, nationalism, and reason.
What is Dadaism?
Post WWI international organization with the goal of promoting peace.
What is the League of nations?
Einstein's theory that space and time were not constant.
What is the theory of relativity?
His assassination was the spark to WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Followed Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union and enacted the ambitious Five Year Plan to industrialize the USSR.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Technique used by modernist writers which used random, irrational thoughts of people rather than purposeful writing.
What is stream of consciousness?
WWI led to the collapse of this powerful empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Artistic movement that reflected post WWI anxiety and used emotion and psychological experience rather than realistic portrayals.
What is expressionism?
Chemical weapons, machine guns, and glorification of war were all examples of this main cause of WWI.
What is militarism?
Economic adjustment Lenin enacted allowing for some capitalist principles to alleviate economic problems following the Russian Revolution.
What is the New Economic Policy?
Psychologist who pioneered the Id, Ego, and Superego and believed human actions were largely based on irrational, unconscious psychological forces.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
American President who pushed his Fourteen Points in an effort to achieve post war peace.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Message from Germany to Mexico which was intercepted and led to the US entering WWI.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
WWI alliance of France, Britain, and the Russian Empire.
What is the Triple Entente?
Stalin persecuted this group of peasants who he blamed for the failure of collectivization.
Who are the Kulaks?
Irish author of Ulysses, which is both one of the most famous novels in the English language and an example of stream of consciousness prose.
Who is James Joyce?
Britain was granted control of several Middle Eastern territories, including Palestine, under this system.
What is the British Mandate system?
Subject of one of the most famous Dadaist artworks.
What is a urinal?