World War I Era

Question 1

Triple Alliance

Answer 1

Created by Ottoman von Bismark

among Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy because of the fear of France seeking revenge for its defeat

Question 2

Germany’s 1905 Schlieffen Plan

Answer 2

called for an attack on France through Belgium

resulted in Britain joining the triple Entente in order to protect France

Question 3

Triple Entente

Answer 3

Britain, France, and Russia alliance

Question 4

Archduke Ferdinand

Answer 4

killed by serbian nationalist this resulted in WWI

Austria-hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia allied with Serbia and declared war on Austria-hungary

Question 5

Central Powers

Answer 5

Germany and Austria-hungary and Ottoman empire

Question 6

The Allies

Answer 6

Japan, Britain, France, and Russia

Question 7

American isolationism during WWI

Answer 7

The United States declared its neutrality preferring to focus on its own internal affairs

Question 8

Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 8

secret message sent between Germans suggesting that Mexico might want to join forces and regain the territory it lost to the U.S, was discovered by the U.S and they joined the war siding with the Allies

Question 9

End of WWI

Answer 9

after brutal battles, trench warfare, a huge casualties, the Central Powers gave up

Question 10

Women’s suffrage movement

Answer 10

revved up by women filling up positions working in the factories, this experience became a push by women in Britain and the U.S to gain vote

Question 11

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 11

brought an official end to WWI

France and Britain wanted to cripple Germany economically so it was very severe toward Germany
they were requires to pay war reparations, release territory, and downsize its territory, it also divided Austria-Hungary into separate nations

Question 12

Wilson’s 14 points

Answer 12

focused on establishing peace and a workable balance of power,

Question 13

League of Nations

Answer 13

organized by president Wilson
They set out to create the organization to preserve peace and establish humanitarian goals
it failed bc when the nations joined they refused to do so

Question 14

Bloody Sunday

Answer 14

Moderates marched on the czar’s palace in peaceful protest to encourage him to enact on Enlightenment reforms, but Nicholas felt threatened and orders his troops to fire on the prosecutors

Question 15

Alexander Kerensky

Answer 15

a provisional government was established, but it wasn’t successful because it shared power with local councils called soviets

Question 16

Provisional government

Answer 16

affirmed natural rights like equality and religious tolerance but it wanted to continue was against Germany hoping that Russia would secure its borders and become a democracy

Question 17

Bolsheviks

Answer 17

Soviets rallied behind this socialist party

Question 18

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 18

Marxist leader of the socialist party

He issued his April These which demanded peace, land for peasants, and power to soviets

Question 19

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 19

Eventually the Bolsheviks took control of the government and they signed this to stop fighting and it gave up a huge part of western Russia to Germany, so they dropped out of WWI

Question 20

Mustafa Kemal

Answer 20

led successful military campaigns against the Greek and after overthrew the Ottoman sultan

Question 21

Ataturk

Answer 21

another name for Mustafa Kemal

became the first president of Turkey,
secularized the Muslim nation, westernized, changed the alphabet from Arabic to Latin, set up a parliamentary system, changed legal code from Islamic to Western, and set Turkey on a path toward Europe instead of the Middle East

Question 22

World War I Ottoman Empire

Answer 22

made a huge mistake joining the central powers, in peace negotiations it lost most of its land making easier for the Greeks to take over