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The Great War
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100
When this Austrian man was assassinated by a Serbian it sparked World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100

This is warfare in which all of a nation's resources, including civilians at home as well as soldiers in the field, are mobilized for the war effort.

What is total war?

100

This man was the leader of the Bolsheviks who promised Russians “peace, land, and bread” in his April Theses.

Who is V.I. Lenin?

100

Decades of women's political activism resulted in this in Germany, Austria, and Britain in 1918, and in the United States in 1920.

What is suffrage?

100

Article 231, commonly known as this, declared Germany responsible for starting the war and ordered Germany to pay reparations.

What is the War Guilt Clause?

200
This man was the leader of Russia during World War I.
Who is Czar Nicholas II?
200

Approximately 1.5 million of these ethnic Christians were killed by order of the Turkish government.

Who are the Armenians?

200

Czarina Alexandra allowed this Siberian peasant, who she believed to be a holy man, to interfere in government affairs.

Who is Rasputin?

200

These were the two main reasons why the United States entered the war.

What is the Zimmerman telegram and Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare?

200

The principle that people of a given territory or a particular nationality should have the right to choose their own government and political future was an important part of Wilson’s Fourteen Points.

What is self-determination?

300
This American President's "Fourteen Points" laid out the course for just and lasting peace after the war.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300

This was the name given to writers who wandered around Europe following the war looking for meaning in life.

What is the Lost Generation?

300

This was Lenin’s policy of nationalizing industrial and other facilities and requisitioning peasants’ produce during the civil war in Russia.

What is war communism?

300

These are THREE new technologies used in World War I.

What are battleships, submarines, poison gas, flame throwers, airplanes, zeppelins, tanks, and howitzers?

300

Even though this institution was created as a result of Wilson’s Fourteen Points, the United States did not join it.

What is the League of Nations?

400
This exiled revolutionary was snuck into Russia by the Germans to stir up trouble in an attempt to get Russia to withdraw from the war. (It worked!)
Who is Lenin?
400

This anti-art movement of the 1920s expressed a contempt for Western culture through bizarre performances and collages of unrelated objects.

What is Dada?

400

This was the name given to the Bolshevik campaign of political repression and executions during the Russian Civil War.

What is the Red Terror?

400

In this battle of the Eastern Front Germany's army defeated Russia's much larger army.

What is the Battle of Tannenberg?

400

This peace settlement, signed on June 28, 1919, consisted of five separate agreements with the defeated nations, but the harshest penalties were placed on Germany.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

500
This French Prime Minister wanted to punish Germany and insisted upon harsh penalties against Germany at the Paris Peace Conference.
Who is Georges Clemenceau?
500

This is a system established after World War I whereby a nation officially administered a territory on behalf of the League of Nations.

What is a mandate?

500

This was the agreement between Russia and Germany that allowed Russia to withdraw from the war in exchange for a large amount of Russia’s land.

What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

500

This battle in French territory was the first major offensive by the French and British against the advancing Germans, and the second battle of this territory was the last German offensive on the Western Front which failed due to America’s entry into the war.

What is the Marne?

500

This many soldiers died and this many were wounded during World War I.

What is ten million and thirty million?