Causes of WWI
This is considered the "spark" of WWI
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Germany and France used new warfare techniques such as submarines, poison gas, and tanks in an attempt to break the stalemate caused by this type of warfare
What is trench warfare?
The radical and revolutionary Russian political party of Marxist socialism.
This event spanned over a decade and caused unemployment to rise rapidly. It was not until WWII that this event was finally healed.
What is the Great Depression
The creator of the fascist party (Fascio di Combattimento)
Who is Benito Mussolini
The countries of the Triple Entente
Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan (later Italy)
As a result of unrestricted submarine warfare, the Germans sank this passenger liner and brought the US closer to entering the war
What is the Lusitania?
The leader of the Bolshevik party in Russia
Who is V.I. Lenin
After Germany couldn't pay war reparations, the US came up with a plan to help Germany pay off loans and also help Britain and France pay off their loans too.
What is the Dawes Plan
The common name of the National Socialist German Workers Party
Who are The Nazis
The German military strategy during WWI that called for a quick defeat in the west before moving to the east as the east had limited ability to move troops
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
The last Czar and ruler of the Romanov Dynasty
Who is Nicholas II
This was the government of Germany following the abdication of the throne by Kaiser Wilhelm after World War I
What is the Weimar Republic
The widespread arrests and executions of over a million people by Josef Stalin between 1936 and 1938. Stalin was attempting to eliminate all opposition to his rule of the Soviet Union.
This country promised Austria-Hungary full military support (i.e. "blank check") in July of 1914
What is Germany
This leader pushed for peace instead of revenge in his 14 Points Plan, including an international peace keeping organization
Who is Woodrow Wilson
Lenin repeatedly promised these three things to the Russian people
What is peace, land, and bread?
Stalin's economic plan that central party-state control could replace capitalist self-regulation of economic resources and increase production
What are 5 year plans
The name for the secret police Lenin established in hopes to get rid of the Bolsheviks
Who is the Cheka
The 4 Causes of World War I
What is Militarism, Alliance System, Imperialism, Nationalism
Women saw improvements in these two areas as a result of WWI
What is suffrage and employment opportunity?
State control during Russian Civil War was referred to as
War Communism
In the 1920s and 1930s this country differed from others in Eastern Europe because they were the only one to maintain a democratic form of government.
Hitler's nationalist and imperialist ideologies, which purported the superiority of the German race above all else
What is Lebensraum and Volksgemeinschaft