Vocabulary
Massive buildup of troops in preparation for war.
Mobilization/Militarism
Onset of the 1905 Russian Revolution where hundreds of people were massacred by the Russian military at the Winter Palace.
Bloody Sunday
This region was referred to as the "Powder keg of Europe" because of the increasing nationalistic and imperialistic rivalries.
Balkan Peninsula
The land between the two enemy trench lines
No Man's Land
Which three dictators rose to power in Europe after the fall of WWI?
Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler
Russian communists who overthrew the Russian govt. and created the USSR
Bolsheviks
Staying out of the affairs of other countries (U.S. policy before WWI)
Isolationism
What revolution was led by Lenin in 1917?
Bolshevik Revolution
City where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.
Sarajevo, Bosnia
What 2 events caused the U.S. to finally enter the war in 1917?
Zimmerman Telegram and Lusitania
This man led non-violent protest in India for Indian independence following WWI.
Gandhi
Name the TWO alliances from WWI
Triple Alliance and Triple Entente
Germany's plan to take France out the war and then focus on Russia to avoid fighting a two front war.
Schlieffen Plan
What happened to Russia after Lenin seized control in 1917?
Withdrew from WWI
Discuss what is the “Unrestricted Submarine Warfare”.
A naval practice of using submarines to attack and sink all forms of enemy shipping, whether they are military or civilian.
This organization was created after WWI for peace and stability.
League of Nations
Name of Stalin's plan to turn the USSR from an agricultural to an industrial economy.
5 year plan
The US supported this army during the Russian Revolution
The White Army
Working class in Russia
Proletariat
Treaty that took Russia out of WWI.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Deduce why Great Britain did not want to weaken Germany in the peace treaty signed post WWI?
In fear of French superiority in the region and not to mess with the balance of power. Also, they feared an economic collapse of Germany will harm their economic interests and trade relations.
Analyze the reasons behind the failure of the Schlieffen Plan Failed.
1. The plan relied on rapid movement – the resistance of the Belgians and the British forces prevented this
2. Russia mobilized its troops quicker then expected – in 10 days Russians had invaded Germany on the Easter Front
3. Germany ultimately was fighting a war on two fronts
In Soviet Russia the ______________ was a campaign of political repression and executions carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police.
Red Terror
This system established after World War I to administer former territories of the Ottoman empire.
Mandate System
The term for German submarines who were practicing unrestricted submarine warfare.
U-Boats
Discuss what was the ‘NEP’ and what was allowed under it.
It was the "New economic policy" adopted by Lenin. It allowed a small range of capitalism and foreign investments.
The most important concept advocated by US president Widrow Wilson in his 14 points plan
Self-Determination
Analyze how the Zimmerman Note contributed to WWI.
It was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
The publication of the note caused outrage and contributed to the U.S. entry into World War I.
Deduce why the League of Nations Failed.
The League suffered big time from the the lack of U.S. participation and absence of major powers such as Germany, Japan, and Italy ultimately left.
Decisions had to be unanimous.
Also, each country was seeking its own best interest and neglected the main aim of the league which is to collectively maintain international peace and security.
No major consequences were imposed on aggressors.
Explain how imperialism might have induced the rise of nationalist movements leading to WWI.
Imperial powers imposed their will on people of their colonies, in response, those people formed nationalist movements in opposition to this imperialism such as the Black Hand in Serbia who fought to resist the Austro-Hungarian imperialism.
_____________is a movement that recognized a common ethnic background in east central Europe and sought to unite those people together in one nation-state. This movement was behind the spark of WWI.
Pan-Slavism
Kerensky, along with the Mensheviks, believed in gradual reforms. They believed that Russia had to have a bourgeois stage of development before it could have a revolution of the proletariat. Thus the choice to reform the existing system, rather than make radical changes.
Lenin believed completely transforming the political, social and economic platform by implementing radical policies and not reforming old obsolete ones.
2 famous generals during WWI that helped lead the U.S. and Allied forced to victory.
Patton/ MacArther
Explain in details how the British Diplomacy during the war has secured a win for the Allies.
Give a detailed account of the following (Hussayn- McMahon Correspondence \ Sykes-Picot \ Balfour Declaration \ Russian Revolution \ Zimmerman Note)
Mention 4 effects the treaty of Versailles had on Germany or the world.
War guilt clause (Germany to accept ALL blame for the war)
Demilitarizing the Rhineland
Reducing the Germany's army size to 10,000 armed men
Germany losing all its colonies to the allied powers
Paying massive reparations to France
Fueling German resentment resulting in WWII
In a trench warfare what does “over the top” mean?
When soldiers left the trenches to attack the enemy.