WWI
Name ONE new technology used in WWI.
Flame throwers, tanks, poison gas, battleships, howitzers, submarines, airplanes, cars, railroads, animals, bombs
Name ONE occupation that women undertook to support the war effort.
Truck drivers, ambulance drivers, streetcar drivers, cooks on the front lines, nurses on the front lines, producing war materiel in factories, agricultural labor, construction work, Russia's Women's Battalion of Death, doctors on the front lines (rare)
This leader of the Bolsheviks promised "peace, land, and bread" to the Russians.
V.I. Lenin
These were territories officially administered by nations on behalf of the League of Nations.
Mandates
Name ONE NEW form of entertainment following the war.
Jazz clubs, "talkies" (talking movies), radio
Fighting on the Western Front can be described as this, meaning a lack of mobility where neither side can achieve a decisive military victory nor shift the front lines significantly.
Stalemate
This is how many men were killed and how many were wounded in the war.
10 million killed and 30 million wounded
Name ONE contributing factor to the Russian Revolution.
The unhappiness of the working classes; dismissal of the Duma; the authoritarian regime of Tsar Nicholas II; the bad leadership and poor equipment in the war; heavy casualties during the war; Rasputin's influence; a general strike in Petrograd
This country wanted security from future German aggression and Germany to pay for the damage caused to their country.
France
This is why women gained suffrage following the war.
Decades of activism.
This secret document sent by the Germans to the Mexican government proposed a military alliance between the two nations.
the Zimmerman telegram
This is the term given for when the entire population and resources of a country mobilize to support the war effort.
Total war
Under the terms of this 1918 agreement, Russia withdrew from the war and ceded lands along Russia's eastern border to Germany.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Following the war, this former empire was divided up, forming new independent nation-states.
Austria-Hungary
This art movement was known as "anti-art" and celebrated the chaos and the absurd.
Dada
This battle at the outset of the war in 1914 on the Eastern Front was a significant victory led by Hindenburg for the Germans.
the Battle of Tannenberg
This was the name of the clause in the Treaty of Versailles that required Germany to pay reparations and accept responsibility for starting the war.
Article 231
This is how the Bolsheviks came to power in October of 1917.
a coup d'etat
Name ONE reason why the League of Nations was weak.
The U.S. voted not to join the LON; Germany and Russia were initially not allowed to join the LON; arbitration was the LON's only tool to solve disputes
This was the name given by Gertrude Stein to writers who wandered around Europe following the war trying to find meaning in life again.
The Lost Generation
Name ONE SPECIFIC territory outside of continental Europe where the war was fought.
German East Africa, German South West Africa, the Middle East, German New Guinea, German Samoa
This battle in the late summer of 1918 was Germany's last, unsuccessful, attempt to win the war.
The Second Battle of the Marne
This is what Tsarina Alexandra did while her husband was away fighting the war that further worsened the internal strife in Russia.
She hid these domestic problems from her husband.
This European country had difficulty reuniting following the war in part because much of its populace was of different ethnicities.
Poland
This is approximately how many Armenians were killed on the the orders of the Turkish government during WWI. (Give the number I gave you in class.)
1.5 million