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First World War
Means of warfare
100
The emancipation of serfs under Alexander II
What happened in 1861?
100
The was the name given to the countries allied with Germany?
What is Axis?
100
The United States of America
What is Allies?
100
A group of radical, state sanctioned, Serbian nationalists
Who were the Black Hand Gang?
100
Blitzkrieg
What was the method of warfare used by the German forces during World War Two?
200
They caused Alexander II to back away from his initial reforms and become more conservative.
What impact did assassination attempts have on Alexander II?
200
President Wilson stated that the war was a European affair and that after the first world war, many american were disillusioned and the government avoided foreign entanglements in the 1920s and 1930s.
Why did the USA initially not join the war in Europe?
200
A diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict.
What is Appeasement?
200
October 1919
When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
200
Island Hopping
What was the tactic used by the Allied force in the South Pacific to defeat the Japanese?
300
1928/9 to 1933
When was the First Five Years Plan?
300
June 6 1944
When was D Day?
300
The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. Within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, it became a subject of intense controversy. To some extent, it has remained controversial.
What was the outcome of the Yalta Conference?
300
In 1919, being female or married no longer meant that you could be disqualified from holding a job the UK
What is impact did World War 1 have one women
300
The tactic of flying planes laden with explosives into the enemy
What is Kamikaze?
400
Because of its unwillingness to withdraw from World War One, the lack of elected officials and the passing of legislation allowing freedom of speech and the dismantling of the secret police
Why did the Provisional Government's reforms fail?
400
Operation Barbarossa
What was the code name given to the German Invasion of Russia?
400
1980
When was the last Richmond grand final victory?
400
The European Alliance system pre World War One.
What was one of the long term causes of World War One?
400
Japanese forces advanced from the land, through dense jungle, rather than attacking from the sea.
Why did Singapore fall to the Japanese?
500
He was elected Chairman of Petrograd Soviets in 1917, which gave him immense practical power over the city (control of bridges, railways etc.), which was a valuable assets to Bolsheviks. He also used his position as Chairman to claim that the Bolsheviks were seizing power in the name of the Soviets, and hence workers accepted that Bolsheviks conducted the revolution. It was not until Lenin closed down the new parliament that workers realized that they had been fooled.
What role did Trotsky play in the Revolution in 1917?
500
The conference focused on the Allied invasion of France
What was the focus of the Tehran Conference?
500
Establishment of the CHEKA, encouraged a class-warfare, the introduction of War Communism and the NEP
What methods did Lenin use to maintain power?
500
Massive economic cost, the decline of Europe and the rise of the USA as the world's economic superpower, loss of trade and foreign investment and a reduction in manufacturing
What were the key economic results of The First World War?
500
A conflict that impacts on the social, economic, political and military characteristics of a nation.
What is total war?