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World War One
Chapter 23- World War One Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is Vladimir Lenin | A Marxist radical who led the Bolshevik Party in Russia's 1917 Communist Revolution |
| Who is Leon Trotsky | Head of the Petrograd Soviet and later commissar of war under the Bolsheviks |
| Who is Czar Nicholas II | Russian Emperor whose family ruled for over 300 years. |
| What were the M.A.I.N. causes of WWI | Military, Alliances, Imperialism, & Nationalism |
| How was Nationalism a cause for war | National pride promotes extremist groups like the Black Hand to take drastic measures for independence. |
| How were Alliances a cause for war | After the Bosnian Crisis, nations' allies were forced to take sides. Triple Entente vs. Triple Alliance |
| How was Imperialism a cause for war | Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia; this upsets nationalists in the Balkans |
| How was Militarism a cause for war | Nations begin to mobilize armies creating an arms race |
| who was Gavrilo Princip | A member of the Black Hand (extreme nationalists) who assassinated Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand |
| who was William II | The Emperor of Germany who made a poor choice to create an alliance with Austria-Hungary |
| who was Woodrow Wilson | American President who created the 14-point peace doctrine for post-war Europe (lasting peace) He became a model for world peace |
| what was trench warfare | combat fought in rows of ditches with a "no mans land" between them. This turned the Great War into a stalemate. |
| how did new technology affect the war | new weapons changed the way the war was fought. aerial combat, armored tanks, long distance artillery, and automatic weapons created a new brutality in modern warfare. |
| how was Propaganda used to influence the war | governments used bias information to influence public opinion to help the war cause |
| how did the Home Front affect the war | with men away at war, more women and children had to work at the places men had left. During the total war, all aspects of the economy shifted |
| what was the Schlieffen Plan | Germany's battle plan to attack France quickly then fight Russia; created a war on two fronts |
| What nations were in the Triple Alliance (Central Powers) | Germany, Italy, Ottoman Empire, & Austria Hungary |
| What nations were in the Triple Entente (Allied Powers) | Great Britain, France, Russia & later USA |
| Why did the isolationist America enter the First World War | The unrestricted submarine warfare led to the sinking of the Lusitania & USA intercepted the Zimmerman Telegram proposing war with Mexico |
| What is a total war | All factors of the society and economy are shifted to help the war effort |
| Where did the Russian Revolution begin | In the (past) capital of Russia, Petrograd/St. Petersburg |
| Why did the Russian Revolution begin | Many people within the capital were starving, what began as protest grew into revolution |
| What are 'Soviets' | councils of workers and soldiers |
| who were the bolsheviks | a communist political party led by Vladimir Lenin |
| how did America's entry into WWI affect other troops? | It gave a psychological boost to our allies and soon made the exhausted Germans surrender. |
| What did the bolsheviks want? | to replace the Czar, and later, the provisional government with a communist dictatorship |
| How did the bolsheviks seize power? | They used sailors from a nearby naval base to annex the capital city of Petrograd; October Revolution |
| What did the Treaty of Brest- Litovsk accomplish? | Removed Russia from the First World War, but gave up a lot of territory to Germany like; Poland Ukraine, Baltic provinces |
| Why was there a civil war in Russia? | Many people rebelled against the controlling dictatorship of Lenin that had been established. |
| What was the role of the Cheka? | The Bolshevik's secret police force used to silence any counter-revolutionaries. Used fear to control |
| Describe Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points | Post-War plan that did not target Germany as the cause for WWI, rather it focused on moving forward and promoted a lasting peace in the World |
| What happened at the Paris Peace Conference (1919) | Nations gathered to draft the Treaty of Versailles |
| What were the effects of the Treaty of Versailles | It punished and De-militerized Germany. Most of Europe demanded they claim guilt for the entire war. This drove Germany's economy into the dirt, making them the poorest nation on earth for a decade |
| what was the Bosnian crisis | In an act of imperialism, Austria Hungary annexes Bosnia; a nation in the Balkan Peninsula |
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