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WWI/Russian Rev.
Unit 13: WWI and the Russian Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isolationists | government policy of staying out of world affairs. Practiced by United State until the use of German unrestricted submarine warfare brought them into the war |
| Bolshevik | Vladimir Lenin's political party whom followed the beliefs of Karl Marx and supported Communism |
| Gavrillo Princip | member of Serbian nationalist group, the Black Hand, responsible for assassinating the Archduke of Austria-Hungary Franz Ferdinand |
| Franz Ferdinand | Archduke of Austria-Hungarian Empire; his death sparked WWI |
| Vladimir Lenin | Leader of Bolsheviks; led during Russian Revolution |
| The Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's ideas for a lasting peace presented at the Paris Peace Conference |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of United States at end of war; called for a League of Nations in his 14 points |
| trench warfare | method of fighting in which soldiers dig in to the ground for defense; associated with trench foot |
| war of attirtion | a war based on running out of supplies and soldiers in order to 'win' |
| Tanks, machine guns, chemical warfare, submarines, and airplanes | new technology caused WWI to be the deadliest war to date |
| Zimmerman Telegram | telegram from Germany urging for an alliance with Mexico |
| armistice | a seize or stop to the fighting of a war |
| powder keg | the Balkans leading up to WWI; their fragile condition led WWI starting |
| The Balkans | known as the powder keg of Europe; one spark and WWI would begin |
| stalemate | a tie |
| Western Front | trench warfare that kept both sides in virtually the same positions for four years |
| total war | complete mobilization of resources and people at home and abroad |
| Schlieffen Plan | German plan to attack France through Belgium |
| militarism | military build up as seen in German and British naval build up |
| propaganda | pro-war advertisements used to spread a point of view to support or go against a view point |
| Karl Marx | wrote about Communism, influenced Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks |
| Dardanelles | attack by British to gain control of the Black Sea and get supplies to Russia |
| imperialism | colonizing other countries for natural resources |
| nationalism | an ethnic groups desire to have a separate country ruled by its own people |
| Treaty of Versaille | forced Germany to pay reparations and take the blame for WWI |
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