Start of WWI
Explain what M.A.I.N. stands for ?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
What are trenches?
A system of interlinking lines dug by soldiers
Name three causes of the revolution
1. Food shortages
2. women marching for more bread and food.
3. The growth of factories brought new problems: deplorable working conditions, miserably low wages, and child labor.
4. Unions were outlawed while workers were unhappy with their low standard of living and lack of political power.
What were the main reasons for the U.S. entering war?
What did Germany sign to end the war since they wanted peace
The new German Republic signed an armistice at 5:00 am on 11/11/1918 to end war.
What was the first spark in WWI ?
Serbia wanted to be an independent state which eventually led to Archduke Ferdinand being assassinated
What is no-mans land ?
It was the land in the middle of the battle field that no country owned. It was also very dangerous to be in the middle of no-mans land
Define war communism
regime of strict control and centralization from the government
True or False Women stayed at home taking care of the kids not helping run factories, farms, and cities while the men were off fighting.
False
Define Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Point Plan
Wilsons ideas regarding guidelines for the rebuilding of the postwar world.
1. Self-determination
2. Decolonization
3. Equal trade conditions
4. Establishment of the League of Nations.
5. Economic free trade on the seas during war and peace
6. End to secret treaties
7. Arms (weapons) reductions.
Who made up the central powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
What industrial technology outweighed the trenches and machine guns ?
Tanks
What did the Bolsheviks promise ?
end to the war, land for peasants, power to the soviets, and government-run food distribution
Women in the U.S. were given the right to vote in 1920 with the _______ Amendment in large part due to their service in World War I.
19th
Who are the big three ?
Great Britain, France and the U.S.
Who made up the allied powers ?
France, Great Britain, Russia, the United States, Italy
Why did they build trenches?
Military leaders seemed to lack an understanding of how industrial technology had changed the way war should be fought. It was a way to defend themselves for the industrial technology.
What was the three-part Bolshevik’s motto that gained wide support for Vladimir Lenin’s October Revolution?
“Peace, Land, and Bread,”
Define total war
A war that involved the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warning
What did Great Britain, U.S. and France want out of the Paris peace conference ?
Premier George Clemenceau in France wanted national security - France suffered most from German aggression → reparations & separate Rhineland as buffer zone
David Lloyd George prime minister of Great Britain wanted Germany to pay for the war
President Wilson just wanted to create the League of Nations
What was Germanys military plan called and what did it do?
Germany had a military plan called the Schlieffen plan which was a swift attack on France through Belgium (officially neutral and in an alliance with Britain) before attacking Russia.
Which front( eastern or western front) thought the war would end in a year?
Western front
Where the government kept control of the banks, foreign trade, and large business. Small businesses were allowed to make private profit (they no longer had to give the majority of their income to the gov’t – capitalism “light”)
Define Planned Economics
Mobilizing all their resources for war effort
What was the treaty of Versailles and what did it do?
It was a treaty to end and have peace for WWI in the treaty Germany had to follow the following
The new German gov’t has to admitted to war guilt
The gov’t has to agree to pay reparations and forfeit German land.
3. Germany also has to downsize their military and weapons