Reasons of World War 1
Who was killed that started the First World War
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, killer was a member of the Black Hand group
What was the aim of the wartime economies
Ensure supplies reached the general population and the troops by suspending trade and production and focusing on producting of weapons for the army
What was Russia´s political system in the early 20th century
Absolute Monarchy
Russia joined what war that led to the Revolution of 1917
First World War
By the end of the first world war, 35% of the industrial workforce in the UK and Germany was...
female
What were the 2 main objectives of Germany´s alliance system
To isolate France, to maintain equilibrium in the Balkans
What were the conditions of the trenches
Cold, wet, scarcity of food, lack of hygeine, rats, fleas, disease
What war led to the Revolution of 1905
People were angry that Russia lost the war with Japan
Name the two powers in Russia between March and October 1917
The provisional Government and the soviets
The objective of the league of nations
maintian peace and resolve conflicts
What are the two military blocs that formed during the Armed Peace
The Triple Alliance-Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
The Triple Entente-France, Uk, Russia
What were risks of living in a country that was fighting in World War 1
Starvation, aerial bombing, propaganda
Russian Social-Democratic Worker´s party, Constitutional Democratic Party, Socialist Revolutionary Party
In October 1917, what was the new government formed under Lenin
Council of People´s Commisars
How many soldiers died during World War 1
More than 8 million
These two countries had a great economic rivalry, one wanted to form a colonial empire and the other feared its expansion
Germany and the UK
What is the term used to describe the use of poison gas
Chemical Warfare
What is the term used to describe the meetings of peasants and workers
Soviets
The tsarists(landowners military commanders, the Orthodix church) created which army in the Civil War of 1918-1921
The White Army
This country was a prominent money lender during the first world war
USA
What states did Russia support during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Question
Slavic States-Serbia and Bulgaria, so that they would not come under Austro-Hungarian Control
What country invented the tank, armoured vehicles that could fire hundreds of bullets a minute
The UK
Crowds marched to Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, demanding improved living conditions and political reform in January of 1905. This day became known as
Bloody Sunday
This term means to guarantee supplies to the cities and the war fronts, industries nationalised and crops seized to feed the army
war communism
This country had the highest demographic losses of the allied powers during the first world war
Russia