WWI
What year did WWI begin?
A) 1885
B) 1912
C) 1914
D) 1941
C
What were the 2 alliances of WWI called?
A) Allies vs Central
B) Allies vs Axis
C) Central vs. Axis
A
What is imperialism?
Expanding a country's power through building colonies, usually through military force
Who was Vladimir Lenin? What did he do?
Lenin was a radical socialist who created the Bolsheviks to overthrow the Russian monarchy.
Who was Russia's ruler during WWI?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Joseph Stalin
C) Czar Nicholas II
D) Czarina Alexandra
C) Czar Nicholas II
What is the "home front?"
A) When the war is fought within your own country
B) Civilians helping the war effort "at home"
C) The term for the first phase of war
D) The term for the trench that's used for home base
B) Civilians back at home during the war help support through working factories, rationing, propaganda, draft, etc.
What main 4 countries were in the Allied powers?
Great Britain, Russia, France, Serbia.
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What year did the US join WWI?
A) 1914
B) 1917
C) 1918
B) 1917
Who were the Bolsheviks? What was their goal?
The Bolsheviks were a revolutionary group with Lenin as their leader. Their goal was to start a Russian revolution to overthrow the government.
What was the treaty called that let Russia exit WWI safely?
A) Treaty of Versailles
B) Treaty of Stalingrad
C) Treaty of Getting out of the War Early
D) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
D) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia gave land to the Central powers
Whose assassination was the "spark" of WWI?
A) Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Czar Nicholas II
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary (heir to Austrian throne)
What 4 main countries were in the Central powers?
Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
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What was Germany's naval strategy?
A) Warships
B) Air raids
C) Submarine warfare
D) Trench warfare
C) Submarine warfare/U-boats
What did the Bolshevik government rename Russia to after the revolution succeeded?
A) The Russian Empire
B) The United Russian States
C) The United Socialist Soviet Republics
D) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
C) USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
What was Stalin's Great Purge?
A) Murder of anti-Communists
B) Destruction of the USSR's crops
C) Murder of German spies
A) He eliminated up to 1.2 million people who he thought were rivals to the Communist Party.
What is a "two-front war?"
A) There are two countries to the east and two to the west
B) The war happens in 2 stages
C) There are 2 main enemies fighting each other
D) There is major fighting in 2 different areas
D) When the war occurs in 2 different areas (fronts). (Ex. Germany is fighting a two front war because they are fighting Great Britain and France on one side and Russia on the other)
Why were many European countries drawn into WWI after Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination?
Alliance systems. Many European countries had previous alliances that drew them into the war.
Why did many Russians want to leave WWI?
They were dealing with a revolution and civil war within their own country, along with struggles in the war
What does Russia have to give in exchange for leaving WWI early in 1917?
A) Land to the Central powers
B) Their most powerful weapons to the Central powers
C) Billions of dollars to the Central powers
A) Land to the Central powers
What effect did Stalin's 5 Year Plan have Soviet industry?
A) It improved industry and modernized the military.
B) It destroyed their industries and set Russia back
C) It had no effect and was a failure
A It improved industry and modernized the military.
What was the Schlieffen Plan? Why didn't it work?
Germany was going to invade France by going through Belgium, then turn around to fight Russia. Russia mobilized fast and France was hard to beat.
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What were the two main reasons that the US joined WWI in 1917?
Submarine warfare/sinking the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram
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What was Vladimir Lenin's goal?
A) To pull Russia from WWI
B) To replace the Russian monarchy with a socialist state.
C) To make himself king
B) To replace the Russian monarchy with a socialist state.
What happens during the Bolshevik/October Revolution?
Lenin's Bolsheviks overthrow the temporary government and put themselves in power.
What did Russia struggle with during and after WWI and the Russian Revolution?
Casualties, economy, manufacturing struggles due to being less industrialized
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