The Russian Revolution
The Battleship Potemkim
The Lost Generation and WWI Poetry
Wilson's Fourteen Points
WWI Potpourri
100
The first revolution of 1917 took place in this month (in the Russian calendar). It forced the Czar to step down and replaced him with a provisional government.
What is February (the February Revolution)?
100
The events of the movie The Battleship Potemkin take place during this Russian Revolution.
What is the Russian Revolution of 1905?
100
One of the poems we read together in class is set in this region of France, where the Western Front was located. It is where the poppies grow, between the crosses row on row...
Where is Flanders?
100
Wilson's third point is about removing economic barriers. This is the name for the type of import tax that countries made as economic barriers to trade.
What are tariffs?
100
I was the leader of France during the end of WWI and at the Paris Peace Conference. Some people think I looked like a walrus?
Who was Georges Clemenceau?
200
The Bolsheviks took power during the October Revolution. Their leader was named this.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
200
This is why the sailors aboard the ship mutiny against the officers.
What is they refuse to eat the soup made from the rotten, maggot-infested meat?
200
This is the name of the poet who wrote Aftermath and asked "Have you forgotten yet?" He also wrote a letter saying why he was leaving the army AND was later shot in the head on the Western Front and survived!
Who was Siegfried Sassoon?
200
Wilson believed that redrawing the map of Europe should be done along nationalist lines. This is his idea that people should decide for themselves what countries they should be in or if they should be an independent country or not.
What is 'self-determination'?
200
I assassinated the Archduke in Sarajevo. I was a member of a radical nationalist group called the Black Hand.
Who was Gavrilo Princip?
300
The Bolsheviks were a Communist political party. That means they followed the ideas of the Communist Manifesto, which was written by this important 19th century thinker.
Who was Karl Marx?
300
This is the name of the major city on the Black Sea that the sailors sail the Potemkin to after the mutiny is successful.
What is Odessa?
300
In Wilfred Owen's poem 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', he describes the men dying like this type of animal (not like heroes).
What is 'dying like cattle'?
300
Point 12 talks about the Ottoman Empire. It says that Turkey should be made a country for the Turkish nationality and that the Arabs should be able to decide their own future. It also talks about keeping this important waterway free and open.
What is the Dardanelles?
300
This was the name of the battle in late 1914 where the French stopped the German advance. It led to the setting up of the Western Front.
What is the First Battle of the Marne?
400
By 1917 the Russian people had lost faith in the Romanov royal family. Czar Nicholas was seen as a bad military leader and his wife Alexandra was mocked for following the advice of this mysterious priest.
Who was Rasputin?
400
The Battleship Potemkin is a propaganda film. The sailors are the brave Communist heroes in the film. On the ship, besides the captain and the other officers, this character is also shown as an evil villain working against the brave sailors.
Who is the Russian Orthodox Priest character?
400
Before the dark, realism of Lost Generation war poetry, war was usually written about as being heroic. This type of war poetry is called this...
What is Romantic War Poetry?
400
Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles agreed on recreating this country, which had earlier been partitioned by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
What is Poland?
400
I was the name of the major campaign fought between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire on the Turkish Front. So many Australian and New Zealand soldiers of the British Empire died during the campaign that it is still celebrated as a major holiday in those two countries today, ANZAC DAY.
What is the Gallipoli Campaign?
500
After the Russian Revolution, it took 5 years of Civil War for the Bolsheviks to take control of all of the former Russian Empire and create this new country.
What is the Soviet Union?
500
The Battleship Potemkin was released in 1925 and was directed by this innovative Soviet film-maker.
Who was Sergei Eisenstein?
500
I am the title of the 5th poem in the WWI poem packet. We did not read me in class. My title is the name of a type of war memorial.
What is 'The Cenotaph'?
500
Point 5 talks about what to do with colonies. The colonies of Germany and parts of the Ottoman Empire were made into these after WWI.
What are mandates?
500
George V of the UK, Wilhelm II of Germany and Nicholas II of Russia were all related in this way...
What is they were all cousins?
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