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This mystic healer got close to the royal family by healing their sick son. His proximity to power actually did more to increase peasant distrust of the Romanovs, however.
Who is Rasputin?
This country's entry into the war helped give the allies the push they needed to win the war after the Russians left.
Who is America?
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What is Militarism?
This country was colonized by the British and used as a base for their invasions of Africa and China. It provided mostly tea and manpower, and was called the British Raj.
What is India?
He was the president of the USA during WWI
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This army fought against the communist forces in the Russian civil war. Its ranks included everyone from monarchists to moderate socialists.
What is the White Army?
These people gained new political rights in the years following WWI, after showing that they could work outside the home.
Who are women?
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What are Alliances?
At this 1884 conference of European colonial powers, the peoples of Africa were divided up and their land claimed. Notably, no indigenous Africans were invited to this conference.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This systematic killing was started after the Ottomans accused a particular ethnic/religious minority within their empire of collaborating with the Russians.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
He was the Russian ruler (Czar) during WWI
Who is Nicholas?
This phrase describes an economic and social situation in which all of a nation's resources are geared toward winning a war.
What is Total War?
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What is Imperialism?
This South African tribal civilization is known for being ferocious warriors and for fighting both the Dutch Boers and British.
Who are the Zulu?
This post-WWI system divided the Middle East into territories owned by the UK and France
What is the Mandate System?
He was Vladimir Lenin's sidekick and second-in-command. He led the Red Army during the civil war.
Who is Trotsky?
This letter sent by the German foreign minister was intercepted by the British and turned over to the Americans who, upon receiving it, entered the war on the Allied side.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
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What is Nationalism?
This motive of Imperialism led some Europeans to falsely believe that whites were superior, and that it was their job to “civilize” local native populations.
This British cruise liner, carrying about 130 Americans, was sunk by German U-Boats. This was one of the reasons America joined the war on the side of the allies.
What is the Lusitania?
This radical communist group-- one of the two main groups in Russia at the time-- believed in the traditional Marxist strategy of radicalizing a large, urban working class to ignite a socialist revolution.
Who are the Mensheviks?
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
This is what the acronym MAIN is supposed to help you remember.
What are the causes of WWI?
It is a motive of European imperialism that focuses on the desire of Euro countries to seek new markets to sell finished goods, as well as areas from which to extract raw materials.
What are the economic motives of imperialism?
This Italian nationalist, who led an army comprised of 1,000 volunteers, conquered Southern Italy and turned it over to King Victor Emmanuel II.
Who is Garibaldi?