Chapter 14

Question 1

long term causes of WWI

Answer 1

• Bismark created alliances that kept the balance of power
• gradual collapse of the ottoman empire
• Austro-Hungarian empire not wanting Slavs to get unity
• Germany is scared of Russia
• people scared of Germany getting big
• Kaiser William II
• french wanting to getting revenge for Franco-Prussian war
• Russia hating Austria for Crimean war and annex of Bosnia
• Italy mad about irrendenta which is controlled by Austria
• Russia and Austria wanted the Balkans

Question 2

short terms causes of WWI

Answer 2

• Germany issued blank check
• Russia (supporting Serbia) threatens to mobilize
• Germany demands halt to Russian mobilization, but refuses
• Germany had Schrieffen plan
• Germany invade Belgium
• Austria invade Serbia
• Russia invade Germany and Austria

Question 3

blank check

Answer 3

“i’ll give you my support now matter what”

Question 4

triple alliance

Answer 4

Germany, Austria, italy

Question 5

Entente Cordiale

Answer 5

France and Russia

Question 6

Triple Entente

Answer 6

France, Britain, Russia

Question 7

Central Powers

Answer 7

Germany, Austria, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria

Question 8

Allies

Answer 8

France, British, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Romania, Italy, Portugal, Japan, USA

Question 9

neutrals in WWI

Answer 9

Scandinavia, Holland, Spain, Switzerland

Question 10

battle of Marne

Answer 10

• towards the end of the war

- the British and french stopped the Germans coming into paris

Question 11

battle of jutland

Answer 11

• Germany and British fought each other’s naval force

- Germany won

Question 12

treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 12

Russia said they wouldn’t participate in WWI

-lost land

Question 13

Tsar Nicholas II

Answer 13

• embarrassed by Russo-Japanese war
• bloody Sunday
• fought int he front of the war

Question 14

the causes of the Russian revolution

Answer 14

• Tsar Nicholas II went to take personal command of his army and left his life in charge
• Rasputin
• workers in factories want radical change
• food crisis in st. Peters burg (women’s march) (march revolution)
• Tsar abdicate
• provisional government created by Kerensky and continued to fight against Germany
• Bolshevik overthrow Kerensky (October revolution)

Question 15

Alexandra

Answer 15

wife of tsar Nicholas II

-took orders from rasputin

Question 16

kerensky

Answer 16

created provisional government in Russia

Question 17

outcomes of Russian Revolution

Answer 17

• Romanov monarchy and provisional government overthrow

- Brest-Litovsk

Question 18

fourteen points

Answer 18

• self determination
• open diplomacy
• freedom of sea
• reduction of national armaments
• return of Alsace-Lorraine to France
• independent Poland
• self determination
• league of nations

Question 19

treaty of versailles

Answer 19

• Alsace and Lorraine was given to France
• Poland was recreated and got some German land called the polish corridor
• a new state of Czechoslovakia
• Sudetenland was given to a new country
• Hungary was an independent state
• Yugoslavia was created (no self-determination)
• mandates created from Germany’s territories
• Germany became a republic
• Ottoman empire was gone
• Romanian was doubled
• Bulgaria was reduced
• Austria-Hungary were separate
• Serbs dominate Yugoslavia
• Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania emerged

Question 20

outcomes of WWI

Answer 20

• the Hapsburg monarchy disappeared
• old landed elites collapsed
• Victorian morality was abandoned and sexual mores loosened (honor)
• total war
• economic dislocation (loans, tariffs)
• labor unions gained support
• all quiet on the western front