Vocabulary
President Woodrow Wilson's guidelines for the rebuilding of the postwar world.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This member of The Black Hand assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
This event was considered the cause of WWI.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What new nation was created (instead of Russia) after the Red Army won the civil war?
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or the Soviet Union?
What is History, Religion, Beliefs?
The first intergovernmental organization established following World War I to promote international cooperation and security.
What is the League of Nations?
The last German Emperor who supported strong military tactics, promised a "Blank Check" to Austria Hungary, and became a significant contributor to WWI.
Who was Kaiser Wilhelm II?
These are major challenges soldiers faced in the trenches (name 3).
What are lack of food, supplies, artillery bombardment, rats, trench-foot, lack of sleep, mud and more?
These factors contributed to the Russian Revolutions in 1917. (Name at least 2)
What are political/leadership failures of Romanov Family, lack of supplies, food and resources for the people, involvement in WWI, deadly strikes and protests around the country?
This dictator took over rule of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin.
Who is Stalin?
Germany's failed strategy to swiftly defeat France, hoping for surrender within a few weeks, before moving east to Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
He was the Russian mystic healer who supported Czar Nicholas II and was assassinated in 1916.
Who is Rasputin?
These are provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. (Name at least two)
Germany is responsible for cost of war. They lose land and are in debt. Empires like Austria-Hungary are destroyed. New nations are created and new political boundaries are drawn.
This political socialist group used violent means to support their cause. Led by Vladimir Lenin, they later became the Communist Party.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
In a Totalitarian Government, a powerful ____________ dominates society and social activities.
What is military?
A peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire) that ended Russia’s participation in World War I.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
A Russian revolutionary, Marxist thinker, and Soviet politician who played a crucial role in the 1917 October Revolution alongside Vladimir Lenin. He organized the Red Army to victory during the Russian Civil War.
Who was Leon Trotsky?
This happened at 11:00 am on November 11, 1918: the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month".
What is the armistice was signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany?
The Bolsheviks gained power by promising people these three things.
What are peace, land and bread?
This is how dictators maintain their power over people (name 3 ways).
What are fear, intimidation, military strength, propaganda, strict laws, punishment, execution.
The extreme political instability and intense nationalism in a peninsula of the Ottoman Empire before World War I. Fear that Nationalism and fighting in this area could lead to global war.
What is the Balkan Powder Keg?
The Prime Minister of France at the end of WWI.
Who is Georges Clemenceau?
These countries made up the Allied Powers (Allies) in WWI. (Name all 5)
Great Britain, France, Russia (until 1917), Italy and the United States.
This Royal Family's empire ended during the February Revolution, after maintaining power for over 300 years from 1613 to 1917.
What is the Romanov Family?
Totalitarian Governments succeed by creating this kind of enemy.
What is an enemy of the State?