A strategy in which Germany sent their forces through Belgium and into France to avoid a war on two fronts.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
100
The leader of the Russian Revolution who died of a stroke possibly caused by bullet wounds in the past.
Who is Lenin?
100
An agreement signed in 1917 that established the terms for peace after the conclusion of World War One.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
100
Germany was known as this when it became a democratic state after World War One. The people experienced a lot more freedom and culture flourished, but it all came undone during the Great Depression.
What is the Weimar Republic?
100
Lenin's right-hand man who was a Bolshevik leader and leader of the Petrograd Soviet in 1917. He was imprisoned for revolutionary actions prior to the Russian Revolution.
Who is Trotsky?
200
Serbian nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand kickstarting the first world war.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
200
Prison camps in which thousands of political opponents and military personnel were sent to their deaths.
What were the gulags?
200
A body in which many countries would work together to ensure peace in the world and sanction states that acted against peace. It was set up in 1919.
What is the League of Nations?
200
Leader of Italy and the face of Fascism. This man was responsible for thousands of deaths under a brutal dictatorship.
Who is Mussolini?
200
An alliance between Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia in opposition to Turkey. Their domain would be the cauldron of fire that would eventually bubble and burst starting the first world war.
What is the Balkan League?
300
An alliance between France, Russia and Britain that would almost certainly ensure that each ally would help to protect the other if attacked by another nation.
What is the Triple Entente?
300
A body of anti-Bolshevik forces that opposed the Red Army. They included military and political personnel as well as the general population.
What were the White Armies?
300
President of the United States of America who promoted peaceful terms after World War One and was involved in the forming of the peace terms.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
A political system that valued strength, visual aesthetics, anti-communism and military.
What is fascism?
300
Reports, posters and fliers that circulated through nations designed to stir up feelings against opposition countries..
What is propaganda?
400
A battle that began in July 1916 with the intention of drawing German troops from Verdun.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
400
A political movement that intended for a classless society based upon a common ownership of the means of production.
What is communism?
400
The acceptance of blame for war. Germany did not agree with this, but took the blame regardless. Just one of the clauses in the peace treaty.
What is war guilt?
400
The parliament of Germany. During the democratic years of post-war Germany, government was formed by the party that gained the most votes by the parliament.
What is the Reichstag?
400
Father of communism and writer of 'The German Ideology', 'Communist Manifesto' and 'Das Kapital'.
Who is Karl Marx?
500
A battle fought in September 1914 that saw the use of 600 Parisian taxis being used to ferry troops to the battlefield. This battle began stalemate and trench warfare.
What is the Battle of the Marne?
500
Stalin's plans to force economic and productive goals on the Soviet Union. They caused a great deal of hardship and lead to famine and the deaths of millions.
What were the Five Year Plans?
500
A new nation that was formed after World War One that resided between Germany and Russia and was the new home to many Jews.
What is Poland?
500
Radicals in Germany that opposed the new democratic government and wanted a stronger government that would oppose the peace terms from World War One.
What is the freikorps?
500
The man responsible for saving the German government from economic concerns and acted as Chancellor in 1923 briefly.