Englard russian revolution and ww1

Question 1

What were leaders of the Russian government called?

Answer 1

czars

Question 2

What were some of the greatest cause of the Russian revolution?

Answer 2

shortage of food and basic resources. The Russo-Japanese war and WW1 caused the Russians to be even more upset with the government. The gap between rich and poor, terrible working condition for the working class and no say in government

Question 3

What happened on Bloody Sunday?

Answer 3

The Russians stormed the winter palace with a petition requesting better working conditions and more personal freedom. Czar Nicolas 2 refused to listen and ordered his soldiers to shoot at the crowd

Question 4

What happened during the March Revolution of 1917?

Answer 4

workers went on strike over shortage of food and fuel

Question 5

What was the slogan of the revolution?

Answer 5

Peace land and bread

Question 6

Who followed the ideas of Karl Marx and what did he do?

Answer 6

Vladimir Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution and set up a socialist and communist government in the Soviet Union

Question 7

What is communism?

Answer 7

An extreme form of socialism

Question 8

Who was Joseph Stalin?

Answer 8

A totalitarian leader who made the Great Purge to kill out his opponents. Soviets were forced to live on collective farms. He also used propaganda and censorship to maintain control over his people. He also made the Great Leap Forward and Five year plans to set high quotas for production

Question 9

Why was the Balkan peninsula called the powder keg of Europe during the early 1900s?

Answer 9

All the different ethnics group there who wanted their independence

Question 10

Why was the ottoman empire called the sick man of Europe?

Answer 10

it was falling apart

Question 11

What was the background of ww1?

Answer 11

Militarism(building up military), alliances, imperialism, and nationalism
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Question 12

What was the immediate cause of WW1?

Answer 12

The assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

Question 13

What countries made up the Central Power/Triple alliance?

Answer 13

Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman empire

Question 14

What countries made up the allied powers/Triple entente

Answer 14

Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union

Question 15

What plan did Germany follow during WW1?

Answer 15

The Schlieffen plan to avoid a two front war. They didnt want to fight France on the western front at the same time as they were fighting Russia on the Eastern front

Question 16

What did they use during WW1?

Answer 16

Trench warfare, machine guns, tanks, and submarines

Question 17

Why was WW1 also known as a total war?

Answer 17

All the resources were sent to the war cause

Question 18

What was the plan for peace after WW1

Answer 18

President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen point was rejected

Question 19

What did the Treaty of Versailles do?

Answer 19

It forced Germany to pay reparations and forced them to accept the war guilt

Question 20

What was the league of nations?

Answer 20

was formed to ensure world peace. It failed because it lacked military power and the US did not take part in the league even tho we were suppposed to. Shame

Question 21

When did WW1 occur?

Answer 21

During 1914-1918

Question 22

When did WW2 occur?

Answer 22

During 1939-1945

Question 23

The Russians peasants supported the Bolsheviks in the 1917 revolutions maily because the Bolsheviks promised to…

Answer 23

Redistribute the land owned by the nobility

Question 24

What is the arms race?

Answer 24

Nations compete with one another to build up the biggest and best military with the most weapons