U.S.S.R
Treaty of Versailles
USSR II
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Big Four
Vocabulary
Vocabulary II
Stalin's First Five-Year Plan
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Why wasn't Russia (the largest Ally) invited to the Paris Peace Conference?
Because Russia pulled out of WW1 early when its government fell apart.
100
Name four countries that were represented by the Big Four decision makers of the Treaty?
Britain, Italy, France, USA
100
What made the Russian Civil War uglier than most civil wars?
1. wanted world to be communist
2. Lenin used secret police
3. paid neighbors to spy on neighbors
4. tortured by secret police
100
T/F The idea of "no secret treaties or alliances" made it into the Treaty of Versailles.
False - Woodrow Wilson tried
100
What was the purpose of the League of Nations?
to p.revent future world wars and empire wars
100
Who said, "Germany must lose their army!"
Georges Clemenceau of France
100
a statement of beliefs belonging to an individual or group
idealogy
100
What do you call the huge USSR prison system?
Gulag
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Why did Ukrainian farmers turn out less food than before the Communist take over?
no one cared about collective farms
why bother with extra work if you didn't own it?
200
Russia's government was weakened by two Revolutions in what year?
1917 (Note)
February Revolution and October Revolution
200
What did England want from the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany must pay reparations!
200
What is the name of Lenin's Secret Police Force?
Cheka
200
T/F Germany lost all of its colonies after WW1.
True
200
The League of Nations gave control of what continent and what major region of nations to Allied Powers?
1. Name Continent
2. Name Arab region colonies.
some African countries given to Allies
Middle East dispersed to Allied Powers
200
Who said, "Germany must pay reparations!"
David Lloyd George
200
belief that all property belongs to the community - share all with everyone
communism
200
How did the Communist Russians address each other?
(a term of endearment)
comrade
200
When Stalin had his Party members hold community meetings all over Russia, what was their first objective in each village?
all farmers had to hand over their land right away
"Farms "right away, all the way, and with a happy heart :)"
300
What is the name of the revolution that tore down the tsar and put the Provisional Government in power?
February Revolution
300
What did France want from the Treaty of Versailles?
Name two points
1. punish Germany
2. take back Rhineland
300
Because much of the power was enforced through fear, what was this time of Russia's history called?
Red Terror
300
In Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points, was Germany to be punished for the war?
No, he never mentioned it. Probably because he foresaw that it would not bring lasting peace to punish Germany. Right or wrong...
300
What does this symbol represent?
League of Nations
300
Who said, "If I don't get it, I will withdraw!" and what was the "it" he was referring to?
Vitorio Orlando of Italy - land along the Adriatic Sea
300
What does Holodomor mean in Ukranian?
Killing by Hunger
300
When all farms are managed by the country's government...it is called ___________ farms?
nationalized farms
300
Why did Ukrainians have to hide food under houses, in graveyards and anywhere underground?
Stalin's wagons hauled thousands of tons of food out of Ukraine, leaving them to starve.
400
What is the name of the revolution that put the Bolsheviks in power?
October Revolution
400
Define the "Guilt Clause" in the Treaty of Versailles.
Germany accepts full responsibility for WWI.
400
Who was the leader of the Red Army?
Leon Trotsky
400
T/F The fact that Poland would be created was accepted by both Woodrow Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles.
True - it was in both!
400
What were two major weaknesses of the League of Nations?
1. Authority - could only ask offenders to stop aggression.
2. U.S. Congress refused to join the LofNations. So US was not a source of strength to back up other nations.
400
Whose idea was it to create a "League of Nations"?
Woodrow Wilson
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belief that all property belongs to the government;
take all property and gov't decides who gets what
socialism
400
Stalin killed so many people that he thought many of his own people would be out to get him. He began a campaign to protect his position. It was called?
Great Purge
400
What new law was created by Stalin when he found out that the Ukrainians were hiding food from him?
Stealing grain meant you were an Enemy of the People...punishable by death.
500
The rise of Lenin split Russians into two major groups causing the Russian Civil War - name the two groups and what they represent?
Red Army - fought for Bolsheviks
White Army - fought opposition to Bolsheviks
500
What allies gained land in the Treaty, and what were those lands?
France took Syria
Great Britain took Iraq
500
What is the term for false news designed to trick people into taking one's side?
Propaganda
500
Name 5 other countries that gained their sovereignty as a new country after WW1?
Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungary
C H A T Y
500
Besides the Guilt Clause, name three other other key components of the Treaty of Versailles that Germany was forced to accept?
Germany had to:
1. disarm, 2. lose colonies, 3. pay reparations
500
Who said that German leaders must be tried as war criminals?
David Lloyd George - of Britain
500
set of ideas that are meant to influence large numbers of listeners opinions and behavior
propaganda
500
A fake trial designed to make a court look fair, when it really isn't.
show trial
500
What was the outcome of Stalin's first Five Year Plan?
worst huge disaster ever! Huge famine in previous rich farmland of Ukraine.