Romanov Russia
Who was the last Tsar of Russia?
What event in January 1905 saw peaceful protesters shot by Tsarist troops?
Bloody Sunday
Who fought against the British in the South African Boer War?
The Boers/Afrikaners
Which assassination in June 1914 helped trigger WWI?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
In what year did World War I begin?
1914
What was the name of Nicholas II’s wife?
Alexandra
What representative parliament was created after the 1905 Revolution?
The Duma
Name the two Boer republics that fought Britain.
Transvaal and Orange Free State
What was the name of the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy before WWI?
Triple Alliance
What type of warfare became characteristic of the Western Front?
Trench warfare
What condition suffered by Tsarevich Alexei increased the royal family’s reliance on Rasputin?
Haemophilia
Why did Rasputin become particularly influential with Alexandra?
She believed he could help Alexei’s haemophilia / stop his bleeding
What controversial system did the British use to detain Boer civilians?
Concentration camps
Germany’s plan to quickly defeat France before turning east against Russia was called what?
The Schlieffen Plan
What 1916 battle became one of the bloodiest battles involving British Empire forces on the Western Front?
The Battle of the Somme
What decision made by Nicholas II in 1915 personally linked him to Russia’s military failures?
Taking personal command of the Russian army
What were the councils of workers and soldiers that became increasingly powerful during the revolutions called?
Soviets
What military tactic did Boer commandos use effectively against the British?
Guerrilla warfare / hit-and-run tactics
Name the four long-term causes of WWI commonly remembered by the acronym MAIN.
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism
What German policy contributed to the United States entering WWI in 1917?
What German policy contributed to the United States entering WWI in 1917?
Give two reasons Nicholas II's autocratic rule became increasingly unpopular before 1917
Any two such as political repression, refusal to genuinely share power, economic hardship, poor working conditions, military failures, food shortages
What was the significance of Order No. 1 in 1917?
It gave soldiers greater political influence/required military orders to conform with the Petrograd Soviet, weakening the Provisional Government’s authority over the army
What 1902 treaty officially ended the Boer War?
Treaty of Vereeniging
Explain why Austria-Hungary’s conflict with Serbia became a European war rather than remaining a local conflict.
The alliance system and mobilisation drew in Russia, Germany, France and eventually Britain
Why did the failure of Germany’s Schlieffen Plan contribute to years of trench warfare?
Germany failed to defeat France quickly, the fronts stabilised and both sides dug defensive trench systems