WWI
Glorifying a country's power and spending to build up armed forces in an example of this underlying cause of WWI.
What is militarism?
This man returned from exile to lead the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Nationalism, democracy and economic security were the goals of this Chinese political party.
What is the Nationalist Party?
The official reason the United States joined World War One.
What is German unrestricted submarine warfare?
I am well known for encouraging civil disobedience as a means to achieve a goal- in my case the goal was independence from Britain.
Who is Gandhi?
Characterized by bloody battles with few gains made by either side, this style of fighting on the Western front proved devastating.
What is trench warfare?
This is the Marxist or Communist group that seized power in the Russian Revolution of 1917
Who were the Bolsheviks?
The emerging Communist Party in China gained much of its support from what group?
Who are the peasants/ rural peasants/ lower classes?
The new name for the worker and peasant state created out of what was formerly called Russia.
What was the Soviet Union?
France, Great Britain, Russia and eventually the United States in WWI.
Who are the Allies?
Identify any THREE new technologies that made WWI the first "modern" war of the 20th century.
What are heavy tanks (tanks), flamethrowers, mustard gas, gas masks, airplanes
Identify any THREE characteristics of a totalitarian government.
What are: censorship of the media and information, use of a secret police, denying basic liberties, state control of economic political and social life, etc. (there are many)
Defined as deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law. Gandhi used this in India.
What is civil disobedience?
This is what European imperial territories in Africa (like Algeria) and Asia (like India) did during World War One.
What is support and fight for their imperial masters?
As ethnic tensions grew in the region, I was assassinated by a member of a Serbian nationalist group while visiting Sarajevo.
BONUS question: What is the name of the Serbian nationalist group?
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Who is the Black Hand?
This is the area of South Eastern Europe which was filled with new nationalisms where World War One was sparked.
What is the Balkans?
He was the totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union for many years, he killed millions in purges, camps, and intentional famine.
Who was Stalin?
When boycotts of British goods began in India, this item became a symbol of Indian independence movement.
What is the spinning wheel?
He was the leader of the Kuomintang or nationalists in China. After losing the Chinese Civil War he established nationalist China on the island of Taiwan.
Who was Jiang Jieshi (or Chiang Kai-Shek)?
President of the United States during World War One, who tried to create a fair peace after the war with Fourteen Points.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Of the many controversial parts of the Treaty of Versailles, this was the part the forced Germany to take complete responsibility for WWI.
What is the war guilt clause?
Although Russia had a huge army, it lost battle after battle and eventually was rocked by two Revolutions, this is the way that Russia was behind the other nations that led to its losses
What was industrialization?
Name ONE way in which Mustafa Kemal changed Turkey.
What are separation of secular and Islamic law, new European style laws, women's rights, and industrialization.
When Joseph Stalin took control of the Communist Party in 1924 he began a campaign to eliminate any threat to his power and any political opposition. Millions of Russians fell victim to what became known as this.
What is the Great Purge?
I was the leader of the new Turkish state and am known as Ataturk- father of the Turks.
Who is Mustafa Kemal?