Origins of WWI
This term describes how nations devoted all resources and citizens to the war effort.
What is a total war?
This country joined Russia in the Triple Entente.
What is Britain?
The deadliest event of the war era, killing millions worldwide.
What was the influenza pandemic?
The main issue behind the Mexican Revolution.
What is land ownership?
New weapon first used at the Battle of the Somme.
What are tanks?
The assassination of this Austro-Hungarian archduke by a Bosnian Serb nationalist sparked WW1
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This nation gained Chinese territory after WWI, angering Chinese citizens.
What is Japan?
Writers after WWI who felt disillusioned became known by this name.
Who were the Lost Generation?
A Chinese student protest movement that led to strikes and boycotts.
What was the May Fourth Movement?
How Russian peasants resisted Lenin’s grain policy.
What is growing less grain?
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
Attempted nationalization of American-owned oil wells offended the U.S.
Who was Venustiano Carranza?
This organization was formed to promote peace after the war.
What is the League of Nations?
This Russian group pushed for a “dictatorship of the proletariat.”
Who were the Bolsheviks?
Germany’s actions that pushed the U.S. into World War I.
What were sinking U.S. ships and seeking an alliance with Mexico?
After this 1914 battle, a stalemate developed, leading to trench warfare on the Western Front.
What was the First Battle of the Marne?
The Allies attacked Gallipoli to knock this empire out of the war.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
This type of government became common in parts of Europe after WWI.
What is authoritarianism?
Russia’s last tsar, executed along with his family.
Who was Nicholas II?
Ottoman justification for targeting Armenians during WWI.
What is that Armenians helped Russia?
European nations were pulled into World War I largely because of this interconnected system.
What is a network of alliances?
Central Powers and Allies
Who was Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire for central; Italy, Britain, France, Russia for Allies?
This clause blamed Germany for causing World War I.
What is the war-guilt clause?
Porfirio Díaz ensured reelection in 1910 by doing this to his opponent.
What is imprisoning his rival?
Reason Iraq faced instability after its creation.
What is Iraq combined the provinces of three different ethnic and religious groups?