Imperialism
Definition of Imperialism.
What is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy and military force.
Pneumonic device and its definition used to summarizes the causes of The Great War.
What is:
M-ilitarization
A- lliances
I-mperialism
N-ationalism
Year that Russian forces accepted defeat in the Crimean War.
What is 1856.
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
What is a colony.
Years when the Russian Revolution began and ended.
What is: 1917, 1923
Name of the geographic location for which the Crimean War was named.
What is the Crimean Peninsula.
The Triple Alliance included...
What is:
Germany
Austia-Hungary
Italy
Number of sailors killed by the explosion of the USS Maine in 1898.
What is 260 sailors.
An extensive group of countries ruled over by a single monarch or country.
What is an empire.
Name of Russian monarch at the onset of the Revolution.
Who is Tsar Nicholas II.
During the Crimean War, Russia fought against the following alliance: _______, ________, ________, and _______.
What is: France, Great Britain, Ottoman Empire (Turkey), and Sardinia.
The Triple Entente included...
What is:
Great Britain
France
Russia
Name of American Military General who lead the Rough Rider Brigade during the Battle of San Juan Hill.
Who is Theodore Teddy Roosevelt.
A succession of hereditary rulers of a county.
What is a dynasty.
Names of three prominent, inner party members of the Bolshevik party.
What is: Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin.
The Tsar of Russia during the Crimean War.
What is Tsar Nicholas I?
Description of the short-term event that directly led to the system of alliances fortifying even further.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.
Name of U.S. Naval General who charged the Battle of Manila Bay in May of 1898.
Who is Admiral George Dewy.
An area containing an Islamic steward known as a caliph.
What is a caliphate.
List of the four main causes of the Russian Revolution.
What are:
1. The Russo-Japanese War
2. Bloody Sunday
3. Poverty
4. Rasputin
Three goals of Russia during the 1950s.
What are: Gain control of the Black Sea, trade routes, Istanbul, and the Holy Land.
1. June 28 - Gavrilo Princip, Serbian Nationalist
assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and
his wife.
2. July 28- Austria-Hungary declares war on
Serbia.
3. August 1 - Germany declares war on Russia.
4. August 3 - Germany declares war on France.
5. August- Germany invades Belgium.
6. August 6 - Austria-Hungary declares war on
Russia
7.August 6 - Serbia declares war on Germany.
Terms of the 1898 Treat of Paris; after the Spanish American war.
What is:
- Cuba gains its independence as its own sovereign nation, but is a US protectorate
-Spain gives up Puerto Rico and Guam
-U.S pays Spain 20 million for the Philippines.
A county or region "protected" or controlled by foreign power.
What is a protectorate.
Summary of the February revolution of 1917.
In February of 1917, revolutionaries defeated the royal armies in Petrograd, forcing the Tsar to step down. Power was shared by a ‘Provisional Government’ and the Petrograd Soviet.
Name of treaty signed on March 30, 1856 preserving Ottoman rule in Turkey until 1914.
What is the Peace of Paris.
German war plan of 1914
- Plan was reliant on Russia's slow mobilization, but Russia mobilized quickly
- France had to be defeated quickly, but that did not happen because they met great resistance
-Plan was weakened because it was not executed by the original founder.
The year that Germany became a unified country.
What is 1871.
When a foreign power has exclusive writes to a sphere or region; it is known as their _______ of _______.
What is Sphere of Influence.
Definition and two features of Stalin's Five Year Plan.
What is:
Stalin's plan to industrialize the USSR in five-ten years in order to catch up with the rest of the industrialized world.
Features:
-Communist society
- Nationalization of farms and factories
- Collectivization
- Widespread famine
- Zero tolerance for dissenters (they were executed)
The Spanish colony over which the Spanish-American war erupted in 1898.
What is Cuba.
Names of the Big Three at the Paris Peace Conference.
Who are: Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson, and David Lloyd George
Name of the political strategy used by Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck that helped him to consolidate power.
What two strategies did Bismarck use to unify Germany.
What is realpolitik
Increasing and developing military; going to war against Austria.
When the military prevents supplies from entering or leaving a country, it is called a....
What is a blocade.
The ___________ government led by _________ __________ lasted approximately eight months and then ceased to exist when the _____________ gained power in the __________ Revolution of 1917.
What is: provisional, Alexander Kerensky, Bolsheviks, October.
Description of Yellow Journalism and how it contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish American War.
What is exaggerated reporting that enraged and caused readers to empathize with the plights of others. Reporters demonized the war tactics of the Spanish (Gen. Valeriano Weyler), which lead to increased sympathy for the Cubans by the American public. There was an outcry for war.
Two differences between Wilson's 14 point Plan and Clemenceau's Plan
Clemenceau's plan was designed as a punishment to Germany. He wanted revenge by destabilizing and weakening the nation completely. Germany would lose all land holdings, military, and have to pay reparations.
Wilson wanted a fair peace based on self-determination; to make the world safe for democracy, and to create the League of Nations.
Month, year, and Name of Serbian Nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand in Bosnia.
What is: June, 1914; Gavrilo Princip.
A man-made Ukrainian famine created by collectivization of agriculture in the USSR in 1932-33.
What is the Holodomor.
The political ideology that characterized the USSR after the Russian Civil War ended in 1923.
__________ ____________ was assassinated in Mexico in 1940 by an agent of Stalin. He was brutally murdered with a pickax.
What is Communism.
Leon Trotsky.
List of three primary reasons for outbreak of Spanish-America war.
What are: Explosion of USS Maine in Havana's harbor; Yellow Journalism; The De Lome Letter.
Explanation of 2 events that caused the U.S. to end its neutrality and join the war.
Year that U.S. joined the war.
What is:
1. Sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. 128 American lives lost.
2. The Zimmerman telegram in 1917.
3. U.S. joined war in April of 1917.
Two facts about Joseph Stalin.
What is:
- Dictator of the USSR after Lenin
- Ruled a totalitarian state where a
single party controlled every aspect
of the peoples’ lives.
- Executed anyone who was
suspected of being against him
-Transformed USSR into a military
superpower, but at a massive price
for the Soviet people
Political concept that describes the government's control of every aspect of citizens' lives.
What is totalitarianism.
List of four effects of the Russian Revolution.
1. Collectivization
2. Industrialization
3. The Great Purge
4. The Soviet Union