Notes
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
According to the Treaty of Versailles, this country was blamed for starting WWI.
What is Germany?
A movie with sound was called this.
What is a Talkie?
This was the illegal bar where people drank alcohol during Prohibition.
What is a speakeasy?
This revolutionary leader led the Bolsheviks in 1917.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This type of war is fought by wearing down the enemy through constant losses.
What is a war of attrition?
This international organization was (attempted) created after WWI to prevent future wars.
What is the League of Nations?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This Ford automobile became affordable for many Americans and changed transportation.
What is the Model T?
The Bolsheviks promised this slogan to gain support from the people.
What is Peace, Bread, and Land?
This country had the strongest navy in the world at the start of WWI.
What is the British Empire?
The government formed in Germany after WWI was known by this name.
What is the Weimar Republic?
This young woman challenged traditional gender roles during the 1920s.
What is a Flapper?
This buying method allowed people to purchase goods and pay for them over time.
What is installment buying?
This empire suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg.
What is the Russian Empire?
This German invasion of a neutral country caused Great Britain to enter WWI.
What is the invasion of Belgium?
After World War I and the Treaty of Versailles, these three major empires collapsed and were replaced by new nations in Europe and the Middle East.
What are the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, and Russian Empire?
This amendment banned the production and sale of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The widespread use of this helped cities expand and suburbs grow in the 1920s.
What are automobiles (cars)?
One major cause of the Russian Revolution was the “land question,” which involved peasants demanding that land be taken from this social class and redistributed.
Who were the wealthy landowners / nobles / aristocrats?
One of the longest battles of World War I, this 1916 conflict became culturally significant in France as a symbol of national endurance and sacrifice.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
Name one goal from Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
What is no secret treaties / freedom of the seas / reduction of arms / self-determination / League of Nations?
This period of fear of communism and immigrants occurred after WWI.
What is the First Red Scare?
This nationwide ban on alcohol was difficult to enforce and led to organized crime.
What is Prohibition?
Russia’s loss in this early 1900s war showed the weakness of the Tsar’s government and helped spark protests and revolutionary movements.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?