Causes & Effects of WWI
There were many ethnic groups in this area, each with nationalistic feelings; the people were controlled by large empires (in the years before 1914)
What is the Balkan Peninsula/"powder keg of Europe"?
The treaty of __________ ended WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A major reason Germany was not able to conquer the Soviet Union in WWII
What are the cold, harsh, brutal Russian winters?
Vladimir Lenin leads the Russian Communists known as the __________________.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
Since the Kulaks resisted collectivization, Stalin forced them into submission by starving them during the _______________.
What is The Holodomor?
No one is winning during the early years of WWI; each side digs trenches
What is a stalemate?
These two empires were broken apart after WWI
What is the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire?
This was a turning point on the western front; largest amphibious invasion in history; mainland invasion of Allies (Normandy)
What is D-Day?
Vladimir Lenin took his communist ideals from this person.
Who is Karl Marx?
The UN's Declaration of Human Rights, which focused on Natural Rights, was taken from this period of history.
What is The Enlightenment?
The spark that lit the "powder keg"
What is the assignation of Archduke Ferdinand?
Because the US wanted to retain isolationism and did not want to be entangled with European Affairs, we rejected joining The _____________________.
What is the League of Nations?
The following items are examples of ________________ Expansionism:
Annexation of Korea; Invasion of Manchuria; Rape of Nanjing
What is Japanese?
When Stalin's government owned all of the land, collected the yield on farms and redistributed that yield as they saw fit (collective farming), this was known as a _______________ economy.
What is a COMMAND economy?
This was a failed attempt at peace because Hitler learned Europe and the League of Nations would not stop him.
What is appeasement?
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
What are the Central Powers?
Germany was ordered to decrease this after WWI
Military/military strength
What is Russia?
The following are two qualities of this state of government:
The state (country) is above all else
Country is run by a dictator
What is a fascist state of government?
The widespread systemic attack on Jewish people that was the Holocaust is an example of a crime against ____________.
What is humanity?
WWI one was called a _____________ war because nations fighting had gone through an industrial revolution and had advanced weaponry like tanks and machine guns
What is a MODERN war?
This was the amount of reparations Germany had to pay in WW I reparations
33 billion
Freedom of the Seas, League of Nations and Open Diplomacy without secret treaties are all part of this peace plan.
What is Wilson's 14 Points?
These two leaders were both very charismatic but made similar military mistakes when they invaded Russia because they could not deal with the harsh winters.
Who are Napoleon and Hitler?
These are the three Natural Rights in which John Locke believed:
What is life, liberty and property?