WWI
Paris Peace Conference
Russian Revolution
Indian Nationalism
Potpourri
100
The spark that ignites the Great War
What is the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?
100
the name of the peace Treaty signed in France after WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
100
Three things that Lenin promised the people of Russia in order to incite a revolution.
What are "peace, land, and bread"?
100
A British educated lawyer, this man was instrumental in gaining independence for India.
Who is Gandhi?
100
A rigid social class system in Hinduism.
What is the caste system?
200
a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war
What is militarism?
200
the country who was not represented at the conference, but was forced to accept blame for the war
Who is Germany?
200
The name of the absolute monarch who was in power in Russia before the revolution.
Who is Czar Nicholas II?
200
A policy which includes boycotts and hunger strikes used by Gandhi and later by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is civil disobedience.
200
An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods. Also promotes a free market regulated by supply and demand.
What is capitalism?
300
a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield
What is trench warfare?
300
Two of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Blame is an example.
What are reparations, loss of territory, and a reduction of armed forces?
300
The country formed after the Russian Civil War.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
300
Passive resistance campaign of Mohandas Gandhi where many Indians protested the British tax on salt by marching to the sea to make their own salt.
What is the Salt March?
300
the "hands off" idea that the government should not be involved in economics.
What is Laissez-Faire?
400
The area known as "The Powder Keg of Europe"
What are the Balkans?
400
Created as a result of the Peace Conference, and attempted to act as the peacekeeping body of Europe. However, the US never joined.
What is the League of Nations?
400
The type of government attempted by Kerenskii before Lenin's communist government took over.
What is democracy?
400
After Gandhi's death India was partitioned into these two countries, which remain rivals to this day.One is Hindu, the other Muslim.
What is are India and Pakistan?
400
Like Louis XVI, this happened to Czar Nicholas II and his family as well.
What is execution?
500
the country that backed out of the war because of internal problems
What is Russia?
500
The names of two of the "big four" who headed the Paris Peace Conference
Who are David Loyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson, and Vittorio Orlando
500
The massacre of peaceful demonstrators in St. Petersburg in 1905. It signaled the start of the Russian Revolution.
What is Bloody Sunday?
500
During this event British soldiers killed close to 400 unarmed Indian men, women, and children, and wounded 1,100 more. People had gathered in the center of town to protest British occupation of their country, and to demand equality. This was a turning point in British domination of India. Independence movements became very popular and eventually forced India's independence.
What is the Amritsar Massacre?
500
The years between which The Great War was fought.
What is 1914 - 1918
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