Unit 7: Eorld War 1 & Russian Revolution

Question 1

Genocide

Answer 1

A mass killing of people because of differing race, religion, or beliefs

Question 2

Armenian Genocide

Answer 2

One of the first genocides in the 20th century, which led to the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians as a result of Turkey’s actions and belief that Armenians were traitors, a disease, and should be killed for being a threat to them. Religion played a part because Armenians were christians and the Turkish people were muslims

Question 3

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 3

A communist who led the Soviets during the Russian revolution in 1917. His goal was to create an equal society through Communism. He led the Red Terror, created the first communist government known as the Soviet Union (USSR)

Question 4

New Economic Policy (NEP)

Answer 4

A change in economic policy by Vladimir Lenin after Nationalization/Collectivization. It allowed peasants to own private business as long as they paid taxes to the government. This brought stability to the USSR’s economy.

Question 5

Adam Smith

Answer 5

The Father of Capitalism. Believed in the Free Market, Private Ownership, and “laissez-faire” or “hands off” economic policy which means that the government does not have interference with the economy.

Question 6

Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points

Answer 6

The plan by US President Woodrow Wilson. His goals were to avoid alliances, grant freedom of the seas, restoring territories, outlining the Treaty of Versailles, and the creation of the League of Nations.

Question 7

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 7

The treaty that officially ended World War 1 (aka the Great War). Within this treaty it is stated that Germany had to pay reparations for the war, Germany had to take full responsibility, and could only have 100,000 soldiers and no standing army.

Question 8

The Russian Revolution

Answer 8

A war between the Red Army (Soviets) and the White Army (the Russian Government). It was fought for the poor treatment of peasants, lack of food, poor economy, constant wars, and corruption of the government.

Question 9

Czar Nicholas II

Answer 9

The king/ruler of the Russian Monarchy who was overthrown at the beginning of the Russian Revolution. His abdication of power is known as the February Revolution.

Question 10

Weapons of World War I

Answer 10

Machine Guns
Airplanes
Submarines
Tanks
Chemical Weapons ( lead to chemical warfare and the development of the gas mask)

Question 11

Trench Warfare

Answer 11

Used mainly on the Western Front, armies dug a system of trenches to protect soldiers from incoming gunfire.

Question 12

Stalemate

Answer 12

A deadlock in action which neither side is able to defeat the other

Question 13

Bolsheviks

Answer 13

Another name for the Soviets.

Question 14

Triple Entente

Answer 14

An informal agreement between Great Britain, the Russian Empire, and the French Third Republic.

Question 15

Triple Alliance

Answer 15

France wanted to attack (gat back at) at Germany for defeating them in the Franco-prussian War, so Germany signed treaties with other powers for protection.
Italy and Austria-Hungary.

Question 16

Balkan Powder Keg

Answer 16

A nickname given to the Balkan states including Serbia, Greece, Bulganic and Montenegro because they would often have disputes that could lead to war.
(A powder keg is a barrel of gunpowder that a tiny spark might course it to explode)

Question 17

Pan-Slavism

Answer 17

19th-century movement that recognized a common ethnic background among the various Slav peoples of eastern and east central Europe and sought to unite those peoples for the achievement of common cultural and political goals. A form of propaganda that was widely used to motivate Russian troops.

Question 18

Propaganda

Answer 18

The spreading of Ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause.

Question 19

M.A.N.I.A.

Answer 19

Militarism
Alliances
Nationalism
Imperialism
Assassination