Internal and External Factors
While Great Britain began this revolutionary production process in the 1750s, Russia and China wouldn't begin to catch up until the early 1900s.
What is industrialization?
This region between the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was the location of the beginning of WWI.
What are the Balkans?
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: identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
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?
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 group of Allied leaders 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)?
Which terms fits this definition: "A council of elected laborers and labor leaders."
What is a soviet?
Many nations between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Ottoman Empires desired this: the right to govern oneself.
What is sovereignty?
This group of reformers rose to power in the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s. Now, the country is named after them.
Who are the Young Turks?
This concept resulted in 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?
This mustachioed man led the Bolsheviks and turned Russia from a totalitarian dictatorship into a... totalitarian dictatorship.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This Georgian revolutionary began his career as a terrorist and thief for the Bolsheviks. Sounds like a good guy to lead a nuclear superpower in the 1940s and 1950s!
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This North American revolution began because of tremendous wealth and land inequality. The 1% owned around 90% of the land, and the ensuing fight over the issue killed millions.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
This 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 event began as a peaceful protest but ended in violence and even greater fury with the Tsar.
What was Bloody Sunday?
What is a serf?
This dentist-turned-revolutionary helped overthrow the Qing Dynasty and replaced it with a European-style republic--for now.
Who is Sun Yat-Sen?
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 period of the Russian Revolution resulted in a provisional government led by the Duma, something like a parliament.
What was the March Revolution?
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?