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This battle saw the use of mustard gas for the first time. It was fought near...
What is Ypres?
100
This man suffered from a disabled arm from the time of his birth. It may have been why he tried to compensate with a strong military.
Who was Kaiser William II?
100
The name given to the day that Russians amassed in front of the Summer Place in St. Petersburg and petitioned the czar...
What is Bloody Sunday?
100
What Austria-Hungary gave to Serbia before the start of the war...
What is an ultimatum?
100
The final evidence of German aggression that pushed the U.S. into war...
What is the Zimmerman Letter?
200
This battle was the greatest loss for the Russian forces in WWI...
What is the Battle of Tannenberg?
200
This man started the events of World War I by assassinating the archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife...
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
200
Stalin's plan for industrializing Russia so it could protect itself from the West...
What is the Five-Year Plan?
200
The term for the money one country pays another because of the war...
What reparations?
200
He freed the serfs of Russia the same decade that President Lincoln freed the slaves in the U.S.
Who was Alexander II?
300
This battle marked the first time that the allies were able to stop the Germany advancement. It was won because of the taxi drivers of Paris.
What is the Battle of the Marne?
300
The goal of this man was to keep France isolated.
Who was Bismarck?
300
Some historians cite Russia's loss in this war as one of its motivations for getting involved in World War I...
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
300
This group lost to the Bolsheviks. In Russian, this word means the minority even though among the people they were a majority.
What is Mensheviks?
300
The people of Russia who in 1825 pushed for a written constitution and well as citizen rights, these reform minded people earned the name...
What is Decembrists?
400
This battle saw British forces bomb the German lines for two weeks. After this time, the Brits thought they would be able to simply walk across No Man's Land without fear of death.
What is The Battle of the Somme?
400
This man's tragic life came to an end when he was killed with an ice pic while living in exile in Mexico.
Who was Leon Trotsky?
400
The name of the treaty that ended Russia's involvement in World War I...
What is Brest Litovsk?
400
The term for when a leader willing steps down from power...
What is abdicates?
400
The Duma was established during the reign of...
What is Nicholas II?
500
The area of the Ottoman Empire where the allies, mainly the British, fought a year-long campaign, but were soundly defeated. This battle took place near the town of __ on the peninsula.
What is Gallipoli?
500
This Russian leader negotiated with the Germans for peace?
What is Trosky?
500
The campaign slogan of this man was, "Peace, Land, and Bread," which captured the popular imagination of the Russian people at the time and propelled this man to leadership.
Who was Lenin?
500
The term for when a country administers another country. After World War I, Britain and France were given the most number of these which included places such as Syria and Transjordan.
What is mandates?
500
Who came up with the idea of the New Economic Plan that allowed farmers to sell their surplus.