This word describes the Kaiser's effort to expand his Army and Navy to compete with Britains.
What is militarism?
100
This weapon caused suffocation and blindness on the Western Front. It was later outlawed.
What is poison gas?
100
This organization was meant to prevent all future wars by creating a forum for nations to discuss their differences. The US never joined.
What is the League of Nations?
100
This man was responsible for ruling Russia badly during the pre-war period. He used secret police to resist reform.
Who is Czar Nicholas?
100
Germany suffered from this condition of devalued money in the 1920's. A loaf of bread could cost a wheelbarrow of cash.
What is hyperinflation?
200
This word describes Serbia's belief that it should be an independent country.
What is nationalism?
200
This was Germany's strategy of defeating France quickly before turning around to defeat Russia. It encouraged Germany to rush to war.
What is the Schiefflin Plan?
200
This term is used to describe the payments demanded of Germany for causing the War. They totaled 150 billion gold deutchmarks.
What is reparations?
200
This philosopher of revolution argued that the workers, whom he called the proletariate, should rule the world.
Who is Karl Marx?
200
The Italians turned to this dictator who helped restore their national honor. Obey!
Who is Mussolini?
300
This word describes the efforts of the Great Powers to gain overseas colonies for resources and markets.
What is imperialism?
300
The Germans tried to "bleed France white" at this epic battle.
What is Verdun?
300
Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace included this many points. Some notable ones were freedom of the seas, free trade, national self-determination, and no secret alliances.
What is the 14 Points?
300
This Bolshevik leader argued that a vanguard of intellectuals such as himself should lead the communist revolution?
Who is Lenin?
300
Millions of Soviets were sent to these Siberian Prison Camps by Stalin.
What is the GULAG?
400
This word describes the secret pact between Germany and Austria-Hungary as well as the pact between Russia and France. Washington warned against these.
What is alliances?
400
This nation started out as a member of the triple entente but ultimately joined the triple alliance.
What is Italy?
400
Germany had to cede these lands to France after the war.
What is Alcase-Lorraine?
400
Stalin tried to accomplish this economic transformation by forcing peasants into collective farms, encouraging workers to produce more, having more women work, and punishing those who resisted.
What is industrialization?
400
Emaline Pankhurst and others used militant techniques to achieve this goal in England.
What is women's suffrage?
500
This Austrohungarian prince was assassinated in Serbia by Gavrilo Princip. The match that lit the tinderbox of Europe.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
500
This German policy of blockading Great Britain backfired because it brought the US into the war.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
500
Germany was prevented from ever forming an alliance with this neighbor.
What is Austria?
500
The Soviets signed this treaty with the Germans in 1917, giving up lands in the Baltic.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
500
This Indian leader believed that Western Europeans showed their true brutality in WWI. The British could no longer claim they were bringing civilization to its colonies.