Causes of WWI
Expansion of territory and intense rivalry between two or more powers.
What is Imperialism?
A concept where all supplies and people are mobilized for war.
What is total warfare?
This front was heavily characterized by trench warfare.
What is the Western Front?
The Paris Peace Conference is where this document was created, it would lead to the official end of the World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This man led the Bolshevik Revolution (aka the October Revolution) to overthrow the Provisional Government.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This incident in Sarajevo, Bosnia is know as the immediate cause of the war.
Name three of the countries that made up the Central Powers.
Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Bulgaria
This was the intended purpose of trench warfare.
What is to protect soldiers from enemy gunfire?
The Germany soldiers refused to fight any longer and the people stopped supporting the Kaiser. These are the reasons Germany signed this.
What is the armistice?
A group of radical revolutionaries who eventually became known as the Communist Party.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
This is the idea that one's people are superior to others.
What is Nationalism?
Running out of money, soldiers, and supplies is a recipe for disaster during war. These three reasons are why this country was forced to leave the war.
What is Russia?
This is why Germany engaged in unrestricted submarine warfare.
What is to destroy supplies being sent to Britain/the Allies?
Name three ways Germany was punished following the war.
What is loss of territory, restricted military, taking sole responsibility for the war, paying billions of dollars in reparations?
Poor working conditions, child labor, and low wages are reasons that Russian citizens were angry about this, something that Great Britain had already mastered.
What is industrialization?
This cause brought more countries into World War I when it was, ironically, supposed to keep peace between European powers.
What are Alliances?
This incident caused Germany to stop practicing unrestricted submarine warfare.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
Germany's plan for fighting the two front war they found themselves in between France and Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
These two countries refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles because they didn't gain enough territory.
What are Japan and Italy?
These were the two armies during the Russian civil war.
Who were the White Army and Red Army?
These two aspects of Militarism led to World War I.
What is having a standing army at all times and building up arms?
This Allied country was responsible for Germany losing their colonies in China and the Pacific.
What is Japan?
The purpose of the Gallipoli Campaign and why the Allies believed it would help them win the war.
What is to open a supply line to Russia?
This clause was the main reason France and Britain disagreed with Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points.
What is self-determination?
This Russian leader was blamed for losing during the war because he abandoned his place at the capital.
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?