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Ch. 14 SG
Ch. 14 SG - WWI & the Russian Revolution - Coach Lowery 9th History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A nonbinding agreement to follow common policies: | Entente |
| Central Powers: | - Germany - Italy - Austria-Hungary - Ottoman Empire |
| Allied Powers: | - France - Russia - Great Britain |
| Glorification of the military is: | Militarism |
| A barrel of gunpowder that a tiny spark might cause to explode: | Powder Keg |
| Who was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in his visit to Sarajevo? | Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| Final set of demands: | Ultimatum |
| To prepare military forces for war | Mobilize |
| A policy of supporting neither side during the war | Neutrality |
| ___________ was designed to avoid a two-front war against France in the west and Russia in the east | The Schlieffen Plan |
| Deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other | Stalemate |
| The area between opposing trenches is known as _________________. | No Man's Land |
| In 1915, Germany used ____________, large gas-filled balloons, to bomb the English coast. | Zeppelins |
| German ______________ were used to sink merchant ships carrying vital supplies to Britain. | U-boats |
| Group of merchant ships protected by warships: | Convoy |
| A vital straight connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean | Dardanelles |
| "The Draft", which required all young men to be ready for military or other service: | Conscription |
| What was "the turnip winter"? | The potato crops failed and people ate turnips instead. |
| In May 1915, a German submarine torpedoed the British liner ________________a off the coast of Ireland. | Lusitania |
| ____________ is the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause. | Propaganda |
| Horrible act against innocent people: | Atrocities |
| _________ played a critical role in total war | Women |
| Early in 1918, Lenin signed ________ with Germany. This treaty ended Russian participation in World War I. | treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| In 1917, the British intercepted a note from the German foreign minister, ____________. This led to the U.S. entering World War I. | Arthur Zimmerman |
| president Wilson issued the _____________, was a list of terms to resolve the war along with future wars. | Fourteen Points |
| The right of people to choose their own form of government: | Self-determination |
| On November 11, 1918, the German government sought an ________ with the allies. The Great War came to an end. | Armistice |
| In 1918, a deadly pandemic of _________ killed more than 20 million people worldwide. | Influenza |
| payments for war damage: | Reparations |
| political ___________, or people who wanted to make extreme changes, dreamed of building a new social order from the chaos. | Radicals |
| The ___________ was an international meeting convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. The purpose of the meeting was to establish the terms of the peace after World War I. | Paris Peace Conference |
| Wilson's goal was to create a league that would be based on the idea of _________, a system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all. | Collective Security |
| The Treaty of Versailles forced _______ to assume full blame for causing the war. | Germany |
| The treaties created a system of _______, territories administered by Western Powers. | Mandates |
| ___________ was a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics of the former Soviet Union. | Duma |
| The growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban workers: | Proletarian |
| __________: an illiterate peasant and self proclaimed "holy man" | Gregory Rasputin |
| A radical socialist group whose leader was V.I Lenin: | Bolsheviks |
| _______ favored gradual reform, higher wages, increased suffrage, and welfare programs. | Mensheviks |
| A new flag with an entwined _____ and _______ symbolized union between peasants and workers. | Hammer and Sickle |
| The Bolsheviks urged workers to unite and overthrow capitalism. They also promised "____________, ____________, and ____________". | Peace, Land, and Bread |
| Civil War raged in Russia between the Communists, or “_____” and the counterrevolutionary “________”. | Reds, Whites |
| The allies intervened in the civil war by supporting the “________”. | Whites |
| A secret police force that executed ordinary citizens who were suspected of acting against the revolution: | Cheka |
| The ____________ was a multinational state made up of European and Asian peoples. | Soviet Union |
| The allies tried to regain access to the Dardanelles in the Battle of ____________. | Battle of Gallipoli |
| The British blockade kept both _____________ and goods like food and clothing from reaching Germany. | Contraband |
| How many miles of trenches are estimated to have been dug during World War I? | 25,000 miles |
| Two significant new or improved weapons were the __________ and the ____________. | Machine Gun, the rapid-fire field artillery gun |
| In 1915, Germany began using a new weapon, __________, which blinded their victims and caused choking, burns, and blisters. | Poison Gas |
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