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WW1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The planned killing of a people group | Genocide |
| - a secret treaty signed between Germany and Russia | Reinsurance Treaty |
| - The 1882 alliance of Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary | Triple Alliance |
| An alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years before WWI. | Triple Entente |
| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, at the beginning of the war | Central Powers |
| France, Russia, and Serbia at the beginning of the war, with Britain and the US joining during | Allied Powers |
| Leader of Germany during WWI | Wilhelm II - |
| Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; Start of WW1 | June 28, 1914 |
| Archduke of Austria-Hungary, who was assassinated in 1914 | Francis Ferdinand |
| - A strategy drawn up by Germany to avoid fighting a war on two fronts | Schlieffen Plan |
| - A wartime condition in which two opposing forces have no more gains on either side | Stalemate |
| A defensive strategy during World War I in which opposing sides built systems of trenches and made very few gains | Trench Warfare - |
| - Locations where battles are occurring in a war | Fronts |
| A policy of sinking any vessel, military or civilian, without warning | Unrestricted Submarine Warfare |
| - a war in which there are no limits on targets or the kind of weapons used | Total War |
| Communist leader who signed a peace treaty with Germany, pulling Russia out of war | Vladimir Lenin |
| - Armistice Day, when the Germans stopped fighting World War I | November 11, 1918 |
| Truce or ceasefire | Armistice |
| - Conference after WW1, where five treaties were formulated, including the Treaty of Versailles | Paris Peace Conference |
| - The document that forced Germany to repay the nations for damages, took away land, and limited their army. | Treaty of Versailles |
| The more Radical Russian party that supported violence | Bolsheviks |
| The more moderate Russian faction that supported peaceful methods | Mensheviks |
| - A confederation of Russia and several of its neighbors established in 1922 | Soviet Union |
| Leader of Russia who came to power after Lenin died | Joseph Stalin |
| The name of the new Government in Germany after WW1 | Weimar Republic |
| - National Socialist German Workers Party; the political party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power by Hitler in 1933 | Nazi Party |
| - Name for the German Empire founded by Hitler before World War II | Third Reich |
| German Nazi dictator during World War II | Adolf Hitler |
| Italian political party founded by Benito Mussolini | Fascist Party |
| the Italian leader, led a March on Rome and overthrew King Victor Emmanuel III in 1922 | Benito Mussolini |
| treaties between Benito Mussolini and the Roman Catholic Church that established Vatican City and gave Italy's government recognition by the Roman Catholic Church | Lateran Treaties |
| an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations | League of Nations |
| Britain, France, Italy, Japan & US agree to limit the size of the navy | Washington Naval Conference - |
| Germany's affirmation that it would accept its current boundaries, especially along its border with France and Belgium | Locarno Pact |
| an agreement in which many nations agreed to outlaw war | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| - Leader of the Nationalist Party (the Kuomintang) in China | Sun Yat-sen |
| the Chinese Nationalist Party, formed in 1912 | Kuomintang |
| Nationalist Chinese leader after Sun Yat-Sen | Chiang Kai-shek |
| - Radical element of the Kuomintang party | Chinese Communist Party |
| - Led the Chinese Communist Party and stirred up peasant revolts to undermine the conservative government of Chiang Kai-shek | Mao Zedong |
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