Russian Revolution and World War 1 #1

Questions 1

100

Lenin's plan to better Russia's economy after devastation faced by WW1 and Russian Civil War: Allowed limited capitalism

New Economic Policy (NEP)

100

This was the murder of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. This event was the spark that started World War 1

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

100

Last Russian Tsar; leader during WW1; unpopular with Russian people; overthrown in March 1917; executed by Bolsheviks after Great October Revolution (1917)

Tsar Nicholas II

100

Treaty which ended World War 1

Treaty of Versailles

100

Battle where Ottoman Turks stopped the Allies from seizing the Dardanelles. Troops from Australia and New Zealand aided Allied forces

Battle of Gallipoli

Questions 2

100

This was a front in WW1. The region of fighting happened along the German-Russian Border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks

Eastern Front

100

machine gun, tank, airplane, poison gas, long-range artillery, flame throwers

Weapons used during WW1

100

The Russians were defeated by the Germans at this battle on the Eastern Front, even through the Russians outnumbered the Germans 4 to 1. Russian general committed suicide due to humiliation from defeat

Battle of Tennenberg

100

This German Emperor behaved aggressively through increased militarism

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

100

War between Japan and Russia over Manchuria territory; resulted in the defeat of Russia by the Japanese navy; a humiliating defeat for Russia that hurt the monarchy

Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)

Questions 3

100

This alliance was made between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years before WW1

Triple Entente

100

This was a major front in WW1. A line of trenches and fortification in WW1 that stretched from Switzerland to the English Channel

Western Front

100

Lenin and the Bolsheviks took over Provisional Government; relatively bloodless revolution

Great October Revolution (1917)

100

A temporary government created by the Duma after the abdication of the czar; it made the decision to remain in WW1, costing is the support of the soviets and the people; lasted only 9 months; headed by Kerensky

Provisional Government

100

The slogan used by Lenin to win the support of the people

Peace, Land, and Bread

Questions 4

100

This Central Power declared war on Serbia after Serbia rejected their ultimatum

Austria-Hungary

100

This cause of WW1 was a policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war

Militarism

100

This term refers to the payments that Germany was required to make under the treaty of Versailles

Reparations

100

Civil unrest that followed the failed Russo-Japanese War and the massacre of Bloody Sunday. Forced Tsar Nicholas to issue the October Manifest in which he created a Duma

1905 Revolution

100

This country switched sides, abandoning their pre-war alliance (Triple Alliance) and joining the other side (Allied Powers)

Italy

Questions 5

100

This was the president who was elected in 1912, and led the US into WW1. Later wrote a plan for post-WW1 peace known as the Fourteen Points

Woodrow Wilson

100

War guilt, military reduction, reparations, loss of colonies, loss of German territory

Ways Germany was punished by the Treaty of Versailles

100

This country entered the war in 1917. Its entrance was the greatest factor in ending the stalemate and achieving Allied victory

United States

100

Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; leader of the Red Army

Trotsky

100

Russian general accused of attempting to overthrow the Provisional Government and to replace it with a military dictatorship; Kerensky's use of the Bolshevik Red Army to stop it strengthened the communists and aided their eventual takeover

Kornilov