The German Chancellor who predicted The Great War
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
Who is Bismarck?
The reason that during the late 1800s many alliances were made
What is distrust?
What is the fear of nations becoming too powerful?
The leader that signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 that ended Russia's participation in WWI
Who was V.I. Lenin?
An example of this is the tear gas grenades the French used
What is poisonous gas?
What is poison gas?
This led to the deportation and mass murders of Armenians
What was the thinking that Armenians were traitors?
Name the alliance Germany was in during World War 1
What is the Triple Alliance?
The glorification of the military
What is militarism?
The country that Russia supported after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
What is Serbia?
A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other
What is Trench-Warfare?
The amount of Armenians that were killed or died from hunger or thirst
What are 600,000 to 1.5 million people?
The reason why Britain declared war on Germany
What was the German Invasion of Belgium?
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
What is nationalism?
Name a reason why Tsar Nicholas II stepped down from power in March 1917
What are disasters on the battlefield?
What are food shortages on the home front?
A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other
What is a stalemate?
The communist side in the Russian Civil War
What were the "Reds"?
The reason that the United States threatened to cut off diplomatic relations with Germany
What was the sinking of the Lusitania?
Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region
What is imperialism?
The promise Lenin and the Bolsheviks gave to the hungry, war-weary Russian people
What is "Peace, Land, and Bread"?
Irregular military actions (such as harassment and sabotage) carried out by small independent forces.
What is Guerilla Warfare?
The other side in the Russian Civil War
What are the "Whites"?
The treaty that compelled many Germans to leave they had made in Russia, Poland, Alsace-Lorraine, and the German colonies to return to Germany or Austria
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination
What is the Explosion of the Balkan Powder Keg?
What is the event that caused WWI?
What is the event that triggered WWI?
The amount of World War I casualties that Russia had in 1915
What are two million people?
The year the first armored tank was used
When was 1916?
What was the third year of World War I?
The reason people from European colonies wanted to enter the war
What was the hope for independence?
What was the hope for citizenship?