Midterm Review

Question 1

Causes of WWI

Answer 1

Nationalism, Mitirarism, Imperialism, and the Alliance System

Question 2

Georges Clemenceau

Answer 2

French prime minister, wanted Germany to pay

Question 3

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 3

Had a 14 point plan for peace. In the end, he pushed the league of nations only

Question 4

David Lloyd George

Answer 4

Wanted to make Germany pay but he wanted justice, not revenge

Question 5

Main points of the Treaty of Versailles

Answer 5

Germany accepted the war guilt clause, would pay war reparations, disarm to an army of 100,000 and out of the rhinelands, and lose territory

Question 6

Czar Nicholas II

Answer 6

Last czar of Russia, deposed in 1917. He and his family were executed by bolsheviks in 1918

Question 7

Tsarina Alexandria

Answer 7

Nicholas’ wife. Her son Alexis was sickly, so she embraced Rasputin’s alternative medicine

Question 8

Gregory Rasputin

Answer 8

Was kind of a whore. He helped Alexis and became a member of the royal entourage. It took several attempts to murder him in 1916.

Question 9

Sergei Whitte

Answer 9

Supported capitalism and wanted to stay out of WWI. Died of a brain tumor.

Question 10

Peter Stolypin

Answer 10

Minister of the Interior. Tried to stop political unrest after the 1905 revolution

Question 11

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 11

Professional revolutionary, led a 3 year civil war starting in 1917 where the Bolsheviks assumed control of Russia. Died in1924

Question 12

Leon Trotsky

Answer 12

Built up the Red army in the revolution. Thrown out of the party in 1927, settled in Mexico, and was assassinated in 1940

Question 13

What does Nazi stand for?

Answer 13

National German Socialist German Worker’s Party, founded in 1920

Question 14

When was Hitler first put in jail?

Answer 14

1923, for attempted overthrowing the Bavarian government

Question 15

What was Mein Kampf?

Answer 15

The book that outlined his plans, while he was in jail

Question 16

When was the Hitler Youth formed?

Answer 16

1926

Question 17

When did the Nazi’s establish total control?

Answer 17

1933

Question 18

When was the Luftwaffe formed?

Answer 18

1935

Question 19

Jacob Riis

Answer 19

Pioneer photojournalist, wrote “The Problem of the Children” about wayward children in New York City living in poverty and away from school

Question 20

Rudyard Kippling

Answer 20

Wrote “The White Man’s Burden,” about civilizing the africans

Question 21

Edward D. Morel

Answer 21

Wrote “The Black Man’s Burden” about how their way of life was impacted by the white man. basically about their opression

Question 22

Wilfred Owen

Answer 22

Wrote “Dulce et Decorum Est” and “Disabled” basically about how bad the war was.

Question 23

Emma Goldman

Answer 23

An anarchist who was considered dangerous and was deported back to Russia. There, she supported the Bolshevik revolution but then wrote about her disillusionment.

Question 24

What got America into WWI?

Answer 24

The sinking of the Lusitania

Question 25

What was the Zimmerman telegraph?

Answer 25

Germany telling Mexico to attack America, possibly fake

Question 26

King Leopold Ghosts

Answer 26

Talking about King Leopold of the Kongo and what he was doing in the congo; pretty much his abuses

Question 27

Bloody Sunday

Answer 27

Putting down the dress reharsal revolution

Question 28

What led hitler to come to power?

Answer 28

The depression

Question 29

How did the world get involved with the depression?

Answer 29

The US was a creditor nation

Question 30

What was Moussolini’s goal?

Answer 30

Bring back the roman empire

Question 31

What did Moussolini becoome to Hitler?

Answer 31

A puppet

Question 32

What is facism?

Answer 32

Strong military, anti individualist. Eventually, things will be so well that we don’t need government

Question 33

What did Hitler feel that gained attention?

Answer 33

Jews and Bolcheviks were responsible for political/economic issues