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
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
Why was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated?
What 2 events caused the U.S. to finally enter the war in 1917?
Zimmerman Telegram and Lusitania
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
The US supported this army during the Russian Revolution
The White Army
Why WWI broke out. One of the MAIN causes. *Hint- Secrets!
Alliances
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
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
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.
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.
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.