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RAQ #20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| WWI chronology | 1914-1918 |
| Who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand II? | Gavrilo Princip |
| When was the archduke and his wife killed? | June 28th 1914 |
| What was the ‘Black Hand’? | A nationalist organization looking to end Austro-Hungarian presence in the Balkans |
| What is ‘MAIN’? | An acronym for the sources for tensions that led to WWI |
| What does ‘MAIN’ stand for? | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism |
| Militarism | Aggressive military preparedness: it celebrates wars and armed forces |
| Triple Entente | An alliance between France, Britain, and Russia (pre-WWI) |
| Franco-Prussian War | 1870-1871 |
| Who were the allies in WWI? | Japan, US, China, Russia, Britain, France |
| Triple Alliance | An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy (pre-WWI |
| Italy leaves the Triple Alliance to join the allies | 1915 |
| Central Powers | Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, Germany |
| Self-Determination | The idea that peoples of the same ethnicity, language, culture, and political ideals should be united and have the right to form a sovereign state |
| Poison gases | Chlorine, phosgene, mustard gas |
| Machine guns invented | Late 1800’s |
| When did the US enter WAI? | 1917 |
| The Germans attack and sink the ‘Lusitania’ | May 7th, 1915 |
| Interception of the Zimmerman Telgram | January 1917 — the Germans tell Mexico that they will help them expand territory in the US if they joined the war |
| Revolutionary groups overthrow Tzar Nicholas II | March 1917 |
| How long did the Romanov Dynasty rule? | 300 years |
| Soviets | Groups of workers led by soldiers or socialists that promotes Russian reforms (Land redistribution, better education) |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | March 1918, Russia signs treaty with Germany to end its WWI campaign |
| Russia wins civil war against US, France, Britain, Japan | November 1920 |
| Total War | A nation's domestic population and military are fully committed to winning a war |
| Propaganda | Communication meant to influence the opinions of a community around a particular subject by spreading inaccurate information |
| Why did Japan join the allies in WWI? | To take over German ports in the Pacific |
| ANZAC | An alliance formed by AUS and NZ and they fought in Gallipoli |
| How many Gurkha soldiers did Britain use from its colonies? | 200,000 |
| Why did the Arabs join the Allies? | Because Britain promised them self-rule if the allies won |
| Armistice Day | When the allies beat the Central Powers (November 11th 1918) |
| How many people died in WWI? How many returned injured? | 8-9 million died, more than 21 million wounded |
| Armenian Genocide | BD: Ottomans kill 600,000 - 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey C: 1915 - 1917 C: Allegedly Christian Armenians conspired with the Russians C: Deaths by concentration camps (in Mesopotamia) |
| When did the flu break out? | 1918-1919: led to 20 million deaths, 7 million in India |
| Who were the big four? | Woodrow Wilson (US), David Lloyd George (Britain), Georges Clemenceau (France), Vittorio Orlando (Italy) |
| Fourteen Points | A document which outlines Wilson's political views, including the League of Nations |
| Weimar Government | The German government that signed the Treaty of Versailles |
| Pan-Arabism | An ideology that called for the unification of all lands in North Africa and Southwest Asia |
| Balfour Declaration | 1917: British made Palestine a home for the Jews |
| Japan takes control over Korea | 1910 |
| March First Movement | 1919, 2 million Koreans protested Japanese rule |
| May Fourth Movement | 1919, Chinese protested Japanese rule over the Shandong Peninsula |
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