WW1
Name the Central Powers
Germany
Austria Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria
Unhappy citizens take to streets of Petrograd to protest lack of food and fuel
Result: Czar Nicholas II abdicates throne
Feb/March Revolution
Could causes massive destruction at once
Were often shot ahead of the order for a group to go “over the top” to soften up the resistance they would receive when they got there
Artillery / Explosive Shells
Top Bolshevik official sent by Lenin to negotiate peace with the Central Powers
Leon Trotsky
The elected representative body with legislative “powers” that was implemented after the Rev of 1905
Duma
Name 3 advantages of the Allies
More soldiers
Greater industrial potential
World’s largest navy - Britain
Red Guard (armed Bolshevik factory workers) attack the provisional government in a nearly bloodless affair
RESULT: LENIN AND THE BOLSHEVIKS NOW LEADER OF RUSSIA
October/November Revolution
Russia attacks Germany
Germany wins even though outnumbered
Feud - two Russian generals, poorly equipped and trained soldiers
Tannenberg
Leader of Germany
Ambitious and aggressive when it came to foreign policy
example: stance on Serbia and blank check
Kaiser Wilhelm II
What does U.S.S.R stand for
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Focused on a rapid and decisive offensive against France through Belgium and Northern France
Aimed to capture Paris and force France into surrender before Russian forces could fully mobilize
Schlieffen Plan
Explain the difference between the Red Army vs. the White Army? Who won the Civil War?
Red Army - supporters of Bolsheviks (win)
White Army - opponents of Bolsheviks
July – December 1916
British attack the Germans to pull them away from Verdun
Over 1 million casualties (400,000 British, 200,000 French and 650,000 Germans) – Becomes a war of attrition.
Was a draw
First use of tanks in this battle
Leader of the temporary government formed by members of the Duma after the February/March revolution.
Alexander Kerensky
An attempt to solve disrupted food production from the war
Victory Gardens
Name the 5 causes of WW1
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism, Assassination
Slogan Lenin used to gain support
the command to climb out of the trenches and attack the enemy
Over the top
Was sent by the British to help the Arabs overthrow the Ottoman Turks
T.E. Lawrence
•Gets Russia out of the war.
•Russia gives up the Baltic States to Germany
•Recognizes the independence of Ukraine
•Gave up territorial gains in Poland and Belarus
Agreed to pay six billion German gold marks in reparations
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Shell shock
Why was what the Bolsheviks wanted for society different than what Karl Marx envisioned?
Wanted an elite group (themselves) to keep the power after the revolution was over
Marx envisioned workers owning means of production
Communism (in practice) governments own means of production
Name the 3 types of poison gas and the result of each
Tear gas – causes tearing or temporary blindness
Mustard gas – formed large blisters on exposed skin
Chlorine gas – suffocation
Czar Nicholas II's leaves Russia in the hands of his wife _______________ to go lead WW1
Czarina Alexandra
Who was Hugh Lofting?
The man who wrote letters to his children during the war that later became the Dr. Dolittle books