Q4 Chp 25 Quiz Flashcards
3 main causes of WWI
Alliances, imperial competition, nationalism
Plan made by Germany to attack France, then Russia if war broke out in order to prevent a two-front war (hint: it was unsuccessful)
Schlieffen Plan
Britain, France and Russia; Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Triple Entente; Triple Alliance (each with major nations)
New technological advancements in WWI
Machine guns; barbed wire; tanks; artillery; poison gas
Countries in the two-front part of the war
Germany; Russia; France
German consequences of WWI
Decreased economic production with loss of Ruhr Valley; Limited army; Dismantled Navy; No air force; War Reparations; Alsace-Lorraine given to France; East Prussia given to Poland
Countries who suffered political discontent and other consequences after the war
Russia; Germany; Austria-Hungary; Ottoman Empire
President of US during WWI, proposed 14 points in Treaty of Versailles
President Woodrow Wilson
President Wilson’s idealistic plan to end all wars
14 points
The group Wilson proposed would support each other if war among them ever arose (ex. if Country A went to war on Country B, all countries in said group would go to war on Country A)
League of Nations
Last Russian emperor, killed in October Revolution, founded Duma, declared himself Commander in Chief during WWI
Tsar Nicholas II
Established by Tsar Nicholas II in his October Manifesto; gave power to it just enough to appease the people
Duma
Founded by Trotsky; the capital of Russia for a time
Petrograd Soviet
Leader of Bolshevik Party, leader of Marxist Russia
Vladimir Lenin
Petrograd Soviet
Did not exit; did not redistribute land; famine
Communist party led by Lenin, led Russia into Marxism in 1917, led Bolshevik Revolution (AKA the October Revolution)
Bolshevik Party
Political parties of Russia
Tsarists; capitalists; moderate socialists
An attempt of the Bolsheviks to revive the economy after the Russian Civil War
New Economic Policy
Enforced by Stalin, set to basically solve Russia’s famine and economy although working citizens to the bone
Five-Year Plan
Emphasizing an artist’s feelings over reality
Dada; German Expressionism
Modernism in literature
Unreliable narrator; Stream of Consciousness
Technologies that diplomats used to spread their ideas
Telephones; Cars; Radios
Proved when men went off to war
Women are capable of work; Women’s suffrage