Significant Events
This British luxury liner was sunk by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915.
What is the HMS Lusitania?
Cease fire
What is an armistice?
His death set in motion a series of international events that led to World War One.
What is the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
Russian councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers.
What is a soviet?
A leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, he led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.”
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
A communication from the German foreign minister to the German Ambassador in Mexico that proposed an alliance between the two nations.
What is the Zimmermann telegram?
Military draft.
What is conscription?
Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
What is nationalism?
A war based on wearing down the other side with constant attacks and heavy losses, such as World War I.
What is war of attrition?
An economic system directed by government agencies.
What is a planned economy?
An organization for international cooperation that was established on January 10, 1920, at the initiative of the victorious Allied powers at the end of World War I and was formally disbanded on April 19, 1946.
What is the League of Nations?
The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
What is a reparation?
The belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.
What is militarism?
Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire, as in World War I.
What is trench warfare?
The primary theatre of war during the First World War.
What is the Western Front?
The document signed between Germany and the Allied Powers following World War I that officially ended that war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
He was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Often seen as one of the primary causes of World War I. On one side there was the dual association between Germany and Austria-Hungary, and on the other you had the Triple Entente between France, Russia and Great Britain.
What is the Alliance system?
A war that involved the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefield.
What is a total war?
"The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies."
What is the War Guilt Clause (Article 231)?
Signed on March 3, 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
What is propaganda?
Counter-revolutionary groups that participated in the Russian Civil War. They fought against the Bolshevik Red Army for control of Russia. Their political and military effectiveness was hamstrung by divided leadership, disparate motives and inability to offer hope for the future.
What are the White armies?
A member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917.
What is a Bolshevik?
Government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants, and the centralization of state administration under Communist control.
What is war communism?