Russian Revolution and End of WW1

Question 1

Who was the Russian czar that abdicated in 1917?

Answer 1

Nicholas II

Question 1

After the Bolsheviks seized control of the Russian government in 1917, what did they rename themselves?

Answer 1

radicals

Question 2

Why was the 1905 Russian Revolution semi-successful?

Answer 2

the Russians were then allowed to create the Duma

Question 3

What was the moderate party in the Petrograd Soviet?

Answer 3

menshevikes

Question 4

What term means “working class?”

Answer 4

proletariat

Question 5

Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks?

Answer 5

Vladimir Lenin

Question 6

What war resulted in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution?

Answer 6

Russian Civil War

Question 7

What were the causes of the March 1917 revolution in Russia?

Answer 7

• widespread strikes broke out in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) protesting food and fuel shortages
• Czar Nicholas II ordered his troops to crush the protestors
• Duma demanded reform; the czar ordered it to disband

Question 8

In the civil war that broke out after the Bolshevik Revolution, who did the Red Army fight against?

Answer 8

the white army

Question 9

Who was the “monk” that the czarina of Russia placed her faith and trust in?

Answer 9

Grigori Rasputin

Question 10

Why was the Duma ineffective prior to the 1917 Russian Revolution?

Answer 10

the czar ordered it to disband

Question 11

What was Lenin’s secret police force called?

Answer 11

The Cheka

Question 12

Who was the commander of the Red Army after the Bolshevik Revolution?

Answer 12

Leon Trotsky

Question 13

What was the first event to start the Spring Russian Revolution during March of 1917?

Answer 13

widespread strikes broke out in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) protesting food and fuel shortages

Question 14

What was the amount of Russia’s population lost by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

Question 15

Why did Nicholas II abdicate as czar?

Question 16

Why did the Allies agree to help the White Army?

Question 17

How did the U.S. react to the Communist idea of exporting the revolution?

Question 18

What is a cease-fire agreement known as?

Question 19

Who was the Kaiser of Germany that abdicated and left Germany after WWI?

Question 20

Who was the President of the U.S. during WWI?

Question 21

What is the extermination of an entire race or ethnic group known as?

Question 22

What is the military strategy that uses hit-and-run tactics called?

Question 23

Which countries were called the “Big Four” at the Paris Peace Conference?

Question 24

What is a worldwide outbreak of a disease called?

Question 25

What disease caused the pandemic that broke out in 1918?

Question 26

What are the years during which WWI was fought?

Question 27

What is the year in which the U.S. entered WWI?

Answer 27

1917

Question 28

What is the date of Armistice Day, the day the fighting of WWI stopped?

Answer 28

11 November 1918

Question 29

What is a condition that the Allies demanded from Germany for peace talks to end WWI?

Question 30

What is the peace agreement that ended WWI with Germany called?

Answer 30

Treaty of Versailles

Question 31

What is the organization that was established by the peace agreement that ended WWI?

Answer 31

League of Nations

Question 32

What was the genocide/holocaust of WWI?

Question 33

What U.S. President proposed the League of Nations for everlasting peace?

Answer 33

President Woodrow Wilson

Question 34

What body in the U.S. government disapproved of the League of Nations?