Causes of WWI
The archduke that got assassinated and sort of kicked off the first World War.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The angry little man with the mustache in Germany.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
On the western front of the war, Germany and the Allies were locked in a deadlock using this style of warfare.
What was trench warfare?
The war ended after the United States dropped two of these destructive weapons.
What are nuclear bombs?
These two Japanese cities were devastated by the effects of the United States' nuclear weapons.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The Archduke was assassinated by Serbian nationalists living in this empire.
What was Austria-Hungary?
This Italian dictator joined up with Hitler and created an alliance at the beginning of the war.
Who was Mussolini?
The British were the first to invent and use this new kind of military technology, which they gaslit everyone into believing were water holders.
What are tanks?
The Germans used these destructive submarines to inflict massive damage to Allied militaries.
What are U-Boats?
Lenin was sent back to Russia by the Germans to cause an internal crisis and pull Russia out of the war, leading to this internal crisis in Russia.
What was the Russian Revolution?
The rise in independence movements among ethnic Serbs, Greeks, and Bulgarians seeking independence from Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman empire.
What is Balkan Nationalism?
The peace treaty at the end of the war that basically declared Germany the ultimate loser.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
This event was caused by the Ottomans blaming the ethnic Armenians for their losses in WWI.
What was the Armenian Genocide?
A set of war policies implemented by Woodrow Wilson as an attempt to end WWII that proposed “peace without victory” and the League of Nations.
What were the 14 points?
Mao Zedong and the PRC took over in this country and implemented major communist reforms.
What is China?
WWI was the first of these, where a country turns their entire economy towards the war efforts.
What is a total war?
After Hitler invaded this country, the Allies finally decided that they couldn't let Hitler take any more territory and declared war.
What is Poland?
Unprecedented government intervention plans using some socialist ideas to help the US recover from the Great Depression. Subsidized farmers and gave relief to the poor and helped create social security and safeties for banks.
What was FDR's New Deal?
The second global peace alliance, following the collapse of the League of Nations and WWII. Used to give countries a place to discuss their disputes without openly declaring war.
What is the United Nations?
A sociopolitical movement started by Mao that attempted to remove capitalist rivals and assert his authority. Schools and universities closed and a widespread cultural vacuum opened up.
What was the Cultural Revolution?
The belief that a country needs to have a big strong military with big strong guns in order to have a big strong empire.
What is militarism?
A system created by the League of Nations that worked to administer former Ottoman and German territories.
What were the League of Nations Mandates?
This conference was established at the beginning of WWI and laid out the rules for modern warfare. (Which Germany later broke)
What was the Hague Conference?
In order to overwhelm the Allies early on in the war, Hitler used this lightning-fast tactic.
What was Blitzkrieg?
Centralized state initiatives that aimed to transform the USSR from an agrarian society to an industrial one. Seized private farms and turned them into state-run initiatives and millions died from famine.
What were Stalin's five year plans?