Long Term Causes for WWI
Short Term Cause for WWI
Effects/Results/Impacts of WWI
The Russian Revolution of 1917
More Russian Revolution
100
The acronym used to explain the long term causes for WWI.
What is...
MAIN
100
This region was the spark or immediate cause for WWI
What is...
The Balkans
100
Fighting from dugouts in the ground, this was a defensive military tactic used by both sides during WWI often leading to stalemate.
What was...
Trench Warfare
100
The peasants in Russia were extremely unhappy with these autocratic Russian kings who were cruel and oppressive.
Who are...
the Czars or the Romanovs (Czar Alexander III & Czar Nicholas II)
100
Leon Trotsky was murdered in Mexico with this tool
What is...
An ice-axe
200
Even though this "friends" situation was meant to help deter (or prevent) war from occurring it actually did the opposite and was one of the long term causes for WWI.
What is...
Alliances
200
Identify the three empires that were interested in this region right before WWI
They are...
Austrian-Hungarian,
Russian, &
Ottoman
200
This type of government existed in Germany right after WWI and consisted of many political parties and elected representatives.
What is...
a Republic (or the Weimar Republic)
200
This group emerged as the dominant Social Revolutionary Group in Russia with Vladimir Lenin as the Leader.
Who were ...
The Bolsheviks
200
Through this plan, Vladimir Lenin tried to reform and revive the economy. Although the state controlled industries and banks, small-scale capitalism was permitted.
What was...
The New Economic Policy (NEP)
300
Before WWI the two sides were known as Triple Alliance and Triple Entente. However, when the war started the two sides took on these names.
What were...
The Central Powers & the Allied Powers
300
This was the metaphor used to describe the Balkans just before WWI.
What was...
The "Powder Keg" of Europe
300
In WWI, this truce helped end the fighting between the Allied Powers and the Germans
What was...
An armistice
300
In this cause for the Russian Revolution, people came to St. Petersburg in 1905 to protest their working conditions. They were shot at by Russian soldiers that killed one hundred and wounded three hundred.
What was...
"Bloody Sunday"
300
Russia and Germany signed this treaty which got Russia out of WWI and forced them to relinquish (or give up) some of their territory to Germany.
What was...
The Brest-Litovsk Treaty
400
This idea doesn't just unite and/or divide people, but it was also a cause for WWI.
What is...
Nationalism
400
This is the name of the Serbian nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
Who is...
Gavrilo Princip
400
This organization was created after WWI with the hopes "to promote international cooperation and to achieve peace and security" throughout Europe and the world. It was located in Geneva, Switzerland, but the United States did not join.
What was...
The League of Nations
400
The two sides in the Russian Civil War were named after these two colors.
What are ...
Red & White
(Red Army & White Army)
400
Through totalitarianism, Stalin had complete control over all aspects of people's private and public lives. Through collectivization, the state forced farmers to produce food for the state. And through this economy the government made all economic decisions and had control over all the factors of production (land, labor, and capital).
What was...
A command economy
500
Explain the geographic context for the historical development/event shown in this map of the Balkans during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Geographic Context—refers to where this historical development/event is taking place and why it is taking place there.
(Group Effort)
Multiple answers may be given
500
Franz Ferdinand's assassin was part of this secret society.
What was...
The Black Hand
500
Explain the purpose for the creation of the Treaty of Versailles.
Purpose—reason for or intent in writing or creating something.
(Group Effort)
Multiple answers may be given
500
The name given to people who support and follow the ideas of Karl Marx.
Who are...
Marxists
500
Under Stalin, wealthy farmers who resisted the government from seizing their land, were referred to as this.
What were,
the Kulaks (Fists)