WWI began on this peninsula that stretches from Hungary on the north to Greece on the south.
What is the Balkan Peninsula or the "Balkans"?
100
This country suffered the greatest total number of casualties in WWI at over 9,250,000 dead, wounded or missing.
What is Russia?
100
In 1917 protests in this country turned into a general strike leading to a loss of authority and eventually a communist regime.
What is Russia?
100
This form of governance rose out of the ashes for many of the eastern block countries following WWI.
What is Communism?
100
These Empires collapsed as a result of WWI. One hundred points each.
What are Ottoman, Russian, Bulgarian, Austro Hungarian and Hungarian.
200
This small kingdom had large ambitions supporting separatist movements in the neighboring regions of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia within the Hapsburg Empire.
What is Serbia?
200
This country suffered the greatest percentage of casualties of mobilized troops at 78%.
What is France?
200
In a communist revolution this is the party representing the lower and working classes.
What is Bolshevik?
200
The total number of people that died not including the six million civilian casualties in WWI.
What is 15 million?
200
The Ottoman Empire lost Egypt, Sudan, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia due to this type of revolt in the nineteenth century.
What is a National Revolt?
300
These countries allied during the First Balkan War to win a series of victories against the Ottoman Empire.
Who are Greece, Bulgaria, and Montenegro?
300
This country suffered the lowest casualties in number and percentage of any country involved in the Great War.
What is Japan?
300
Communists seized power in these two European countries in 1919 following the war.
What is Bavaria and Hungary?
300
In countries like India, China, Korea, and Egypt these type of movements grew from the seeds planted in WWI.
What are colonial resistance movements?
300
A war with this country led the Ottoman Empire to lose Libya in 1912.
What is Italy?
400
Bulgaria's disappointment with this treaty led to the conditions which ignited the Second Balkan War.
What is the Treaty of London (1913)
400
This country lost 5.6% of their entire population in the war.
What is Serbia?
400
In contrast to collective ownership known as communism, this form of dictatorship is where companies and rich individuals control the government.
What is Fascism?
400
WWI is classified as the first of this type of war in history.
What is a "total war"
400
This war was by far the biggest contributing factor to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
What is WWI?
500
This small secret Bosnian Serb organization called themselves "Union or Death"
What is the Black Hand?
500
The United States suffered this number of dead in the Great War, far fewer than it would suffer in WWII.
What is 117,000
500
According to this historian, without WWI "Adolf Hitler could have eked out his life as a mediocre postcard painter and Lenin could have carried on his splenetic scribbling in Zurich forever waiting for capitalism to collapse - and forever disappointed."
Who is Niall Fergeson - BTW the word splenetic means bad tempered or distasteful. (after the spleen - think Greek humors)
500
Nobody imagined that WWI would become this type of war.
What is a war of attrition?
500
After WWI Ottoman holdings of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine went to these two countries (500 pts each)