Internal and External Factors
While Great Britain was the first country to undergo this radical transformation in manufacturing and technology in the 1750s, Russia and China wouldn't begin to catch up until the early 1900s.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This country didn't join WWI until 1917, which was good luck for the Allies since Russia had just dropped out of the war.
What is the USA?
This treaty, named after a French city, formally ended WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The Bolsheviks advocated for the adoption of this political and economic ideology. It certainly wasn't capitalism!
What is communism?
This ideology was a main cause of WWI and is still with us today: a belief that nations should be sovereign; sometimes causes a belief that one's nation is superior to all others.
What is nationalism?
Russia was humiliated in this war, in which it lost to a relatively small archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
Germany believed that this plan would allow them to win on the Western Front before heading east to fight Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This group of Allied countries led the Paris Peace Conference, but they were far from on the same page about how to handle Germany after the war.
Who were the Big Four (USA, GB, France, Italy)?
What is the Russian Civil War?
Woodrow Wilson argued that colonized and imperialized peoples should have this: the right to freely determine their own political status, sovereignty, and government, free from external interference.
What is self-determination?
This European country, created in 1871, would eventually be forced to take the blame for causing WWI.
What is Germany?
This ideology resulted in intense military competition between imperial powers before WWI, especially Great Britain and Germany, which both raced to build the strongest navy in the world.
What is militarism?
This term means "the compensation for war damage paid by a defeated state."
What are reparations?
Which terms fits this definition: "A council of elected laborers and labor leaders."
What is a soviet?
This style of war characterized both World Wars, much to the detriment of civilian populations on both sides, who were viewed as military targets.
What is Total War?
This event saw European empires compete for control African colonies, raising tensions between them.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This Eurasian empire lost almost the same number of soldiers in WWI as Russia, but their losses were a vastly higher percentage of the population and would lead to the empire's collapse.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Woodrow Wilson tried to lead the post-WWI world by issuing this document that famously contained a plan for a League of Nations (that the US wouldn't even join!).
What are the 14 Points?
This mustachioed man led the Bolsheviks and turned Russia from a totalitarian dictatorship into a... totalitarian dictatorship.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Italy switched from the Central Powers to the Allies during WWI because they were promised a large piece of this country, which they never really got in the end.
What is Austria?
This region of Europe was known as the "Powder Keg" of Europe because if there was a spark (an emergency), then the whole thing could blow up.
What are the Balkans?
This repeating date was the day that fighting in WWI officially ended.
What is 11:00 on 11/11/1918?
What are Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Turkey?
This treaty saw the end of the Russian Empire (for now) because Russia was forced to surrender its imperial territories in Europe to Germany (for now).
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
This economic disaster plagued Germany after WWI and would be a major cause of the global Great Depression of the 1930s.
What is hyper-inflation?