Stufflet Euro U8P1 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Wilhelm II | German emperor (Kaiser) whose militarism helped cause the First World War |
Weltpolitik | refers to Germany's attempt to become a world power with its navy; means "world politics" |
Triple Entente | World War I alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia |
Triple Alliance | World War I alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
Franz Ferdinand | heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne assassinated in Sarajevo in June 1914 |
Gavrilo Princip | assassin of Austro-Hungarian archduke |
Easter Rebellion | Irish nationalist rebellion of 1916 put down by the British |
Nicholas II | Russian tsar; murdered by Bolsheviks in 1917 |
Rasputin | "holy man" who influenced Russian empress during war; murdered by Russian aristocracy |
Alexander Kerensky | moderate liberal leader of the 1st Russian Revolution that resulted in tsar's abdication |
Vladimir Lenin | radical Bolshevik leader of the 2nd Russian Revolution (October Revolution) |
Leon Trotsky | Bolshevik military leader of Petrograd Soviet; later organized Red Army |
Bolsheviks | radical socialist revolutionaries of Russian Revolution |
Treaty of Brest Litovsk | treaty that ended WWI on eastern front between Germany and Russia |
Franco-Russian Alliance | resulted from build up of Germany's army and its non-renewal of the Reinsurance Treaty |
Entente Cordiale | resulted from build up of the German navy |
Sinn Fein | political leaders of Irish rebellion; means "we ourselves" |
Irish Republican Army | military wing of Irish independence movement |
Ataturk | leader of Turkish nationalist group |
mandate system | divided Middle East into territories ruled by Britain and France |
Provisional Government | assumed control of Russia after Nicholas abdicated |
Article 231 | war guilt clause of Versailles Treaty; blamed Germany for start of war |
Alsace | territory taken by France from Germany after World War I |
Weimar Republic | German government from World War I until 1933 |
Lost Generation | those who fought in World War I who were physically and mentally scarred |
Dada | art that was "anti-art"; resulted from sense of hopelessness and anxiety after World War I |
Surrealism | represented by Salvador Dali; painted the unconscious; influenced by Freudian psychology |
existentialism | you’re born into a life without meaning or purpose—to give your life “essence” (meaning), you must do something |
Sartre | leading existentialist philosopher |
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