Causes
Name of the German plan to defeat France quickly then focus on Russia?
Schlieffen
What was Britain’s plan to defeat Germany?
Blockade
What were the two groups that fight the Russian Civil War?
Red and White
What was the Treaty of Versailles described as?
Peace built on quicksand.
Approximately, how many casualties were in WWI?
20 Million
8.5-10 million deaths
What term described the Balkan region before the Great War?
Powder Keg
3 new weapons used in the Great War
Poison Gas, Machine Guns, tanks, air planes, barbed wire
Why did the majority of people back the Communist in Russia?
They disliked the Czar
What did article 231 state?
Germany was at fault for the war.
What was the name of the book that described life at the Front?
All Quiet on the Western Front
Whose assassination was the spark of World War I?
Arch Duke Frans Ferdinand
Whose arrival led to Russia falling into Revolution and leaving the War?
Lenin
What type of warfare did Germany engage in that will bring in the US?
Submarine
What was Wilson's plan for Peace
14 Points of peace
What country attempted Genocide against the Armenians?
Turkey
Name three countries of the Central powers and Allied Powers.
Germany, Austria Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Name 1 reason for the US entering the War.
Submarine Warfare
Zimmerman Note
British Propaganda
What was the name of the Republic that takes over for the Kaiser in Germany?
Weimar
What term refers to money a losing country has to pay a winning country in war?
Reparations
What two countries desire to gain lost territory from the War?
Germany and Russia
Name the 4 MAIN Causes for the Great War
Militarism
Alliance System
Imperialism
Nationalism
Define the following terms
Total War
Attrition
No Man's Land
Total War-All aspects of a society are mobilized to fight the war.
Attrition-When you wear the other side out.
No Man's Land-Area between the trenches.
What did Wilson want to create to establish a just and lasting peace?
League of Nations
What is the idea that the people should be able to decide what country they should be a part of?
Self Determination
What idea spreads in Germany after the war about their loss?
They were "stabbed in the back" by the Weimar Republic