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1917
1918
Break-up of Empires
Results and Effects of WWI
Effects and Results of WWI
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Food riots in February 1917 in this city led to a typically brutal crackdown by the monarchy's military forces and then revolution.
What is St. Petersburg or Petrograd?
100
The last gamble of the German army. Planned by Ludenorff and initially successful, German troops slowed down their advance to eat captured Allied food supplies. It cost the Germans so much in men and weapons that they never recovered.
What is Operation Michael?
100
Kingdom of the South Slavs and featured a Serbian king.
What is Yugoslavia?
100
The guiding principles at the start of the Paris Peace Conference. Led Clemenceau to remark "God himself was content with ten.”
What are the 14 Points
100
The French initially wanted to annex this territory but settled for occupation till 1935 and a demilitarization by Germany
What is the Rhineland?
200
The first led to the fall of the Czar. The second led to the fall of the Provisional Government and the takeover by the Bolsheviks
What are the February and October Revolutions?
200
The two battles when American forces were actually instrumental in the Allied victory.
What are Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood?
200
Declared its independence in October 1918. Two nations, once subjects of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, worked together to achieve national self-determination.
What is Czechoslovakia?
200
Killed 25 million people in a matter of months. Probably started in the American Midwest and spread around the world as a result of the movement of troops and the mass migrations of people in the aftermath of the war.
What is the Spanish Flu Pandemic?
200
A swath of Polish territory that separated East Prussia from the rest of Germany.
What is the Polish Corridor?
300
The Germans made a strategic retreat back to this and left a dangerous no-man's-land behind. The French attacked in the Nivelle Offensive.
What is the Hindenburg Line?
300
This was the result of the German naval command's order to leave their bases in the North Sea for a final, suicidal showdown with the British Navy. German sailors refused at started setting up soviets or councils of their own.
What is the Kiel Mutiny?
300
Had not existed as an independent nation since 1795. Comprised of territory from Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.
What is Poland?
300
France suffered about 900 a day on average and Germany 1300. When the US was fully engaged by the summer of 1918, America suffered about 820 each day. The Russians 1459 a day!
What are soldiers killed in the war?
300
German pejorative term for the Versailles Treaty. Highlighted the notion that the treaty was forced upon them.
What is Diktat?
400
This was the third in a series of indecisive battles over a British salient in Belgium. It confirmed once again the lack of creative leadership on the part of Douglas Haig.
What is the 3rd Battle of Ypres or Passchendaele?
400
Ludendorff's dark nickname for August 8, 1918 when the Allies advanced 8 miles during the Battle of Amiens
What is "the black day of the Germany army"
400
The first was a humiliating treaty signed by the largely powerless Sultan Mehmed VI and gave territory to Greece and Italy. The second was signed by Attaturk after he fought back and forced a renegotiation on his terms.
What is the Treaty of Sevres and the Treaty of Lausanne?
400
He famously and incorrectly claimed that the Versailles Treaty was a Carthaginian Peace.
Who was John Maynard Keynes?
400
Turned Austria from empire of 50 million to a rump state 8 million people. Included a war guilt clause but imposed no reparations as the Allies concluded they couldn't pay.
What is the Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye?
500
Though repayment of war loans may have been more important, this diplomatic blunder by Germany enraged US public opinion and increased support for a declaration of war.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
500
By signing this, the Bolsheviks gave away modern day Ukraine, Belorussia, Finland, Poland, Latvia Lithuania, and Estonia. The downside of this for Germany was that effectively exploiting such a vast area took at least 1 million men, maybe 1.5 million.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
500
This even was comprised of various declarations of Soviet and socialist states within Germany, the fall of the Kaiser, and widespread mutinies by German forces. The Wiemar Republic was founded as a result.
What is the November Revolution?
500
The name for a German union with Austria
What is Anschluss?
500
Lingering war time paranoia, widespread bombings(including one at Wall Street) racial strife, labor unrest, and the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti contributed to this
What is the First Red Scare?