World War One Flashcards
This 1914 battle foiled Germany’s invasion of France and saved the Allied cause.
Battle of Marne
Part of Wilson’s Fourteen Points, this German territory was returned to France as part of the Treaty of Versailles.
Alsace-Loraine
The gradual decline of this empire created tension between Austria and Russia.
The Ottoman Empire
The interception of this secret message revealed a German proposal for a military alliance with Mexico against the US.
The Zimmerman Telegram
This group of people entered the work force because of the labor shortage created by WW1
Women
After the Czar was overthrown in February 1917, this body served as part of the dual government. It consisted of workers and soldiers.
The Petrograd Soviet
This slogan was used by Lenin to gain support during the elections following the October Revolution.
“Peace, Land, Bread”
The treaty of Berlin in 1878 created agreement among the major European Powers on the boundaries of this region.
The Balkans
The Treaty of Versailles stated that this country lost territory, was demilitarized, and forced to pay war reparations.
Germany
This British ship was sunk in 1915 by a German u-boat killing 1,195 people, including 128 Americans.
The Lusitania
This terror organization destroyed thousands of Lenin’s political opponents.
The Cheka
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
He was the leader of the failed Provisional Government who continued to pursue an unpopular war.
This statesmen worked to isolate France through multiple alliances, but his resignation in 1890 led to a more reckless German foreign policy regarding Russia.
Otto von Bismarck
Name three new military innovations first used in WW1.
Tanks, poison gas, airplanes, flamethrowers, submarines or radio.
President Woodrow proposed this, a blueprint for ending World War One which included freedom of the seas, arms reductions & independent nations.
The Fourteen Points
This bloody event occurred after people peacefully came to St. Petersburg asking the tsar for help.
“Bloody Sunday” (Revolution of 1905)
This provision of the Versailles Treaty placed sole blame for World War II on Germany.
The War Guilt Clause (Article 231)
This 1916 battle was the bloodiest of the war: over 1 million casualties!
Battle of the Somme
This leader of the Red Army overthrew the newly-elected Russian government in 1917 and led a disciplined Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Leon Trotsky
This German naval policy eventually brought the United States into the war.
Unrestricted submarine warfare
This German ruler was unstable and reactive and was largely blamed for starting WWI.
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Germany’s unconditional support for Austria-Hungary against Serbia in July, 1914 is known as this.
The “blank check”
This war was THE major cause of the Russian Revolution.
World War I
This revolutionary leader believed in the “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”- rule by a small revolutionary elite- because he didn’t think the working class could develop class consciousness on their own.
Lenin
This 1929 novel by Erich Remarque detailed the horrors of trench warfare.
All Quiet on the Western Front
The creation of these successfully prevented a general multinational war in the late 19th c.
Alliances
This static type of warfare characterized the Western Front after defensive weapons gained an early advantage.
Trench Warfare
Alexander II is considered one of the greatest tsars in Russian history,in part, because he did this in 1861.
End serfdom (Emancipation Edict)
This international organization collective security organization was created by the Versailles Treaty (but the US never joined).
The League of Nations
Lenin led this Russian faction of communists.
The Bolsheviks
Lenin did not want to risk losing his limited power base, so he signed this treaty to get Russia out of the war in 1917, but at the cost of 1/4 of its population.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
This British economist believed that the Versailles Treaty’s harsh provisions against Germany were a huge mistake.
John Maynard Keynes
This allied strategy contributed the most to Germany’s defeat.
The naval blockade
Name at least one newly independent nation after WWI.
Poland, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia
These district or village assemblies were created by Alexander II’s decree and saw significant popular participation by peasants who elected representatives.
Zemstvos
This was the last Tsar of Russia.
Tsar Nicholas II
Britain entered WWI as a direct response to Germany’s invasion of this country.
Belgium
At this 1878 conference, Russia gained nothing even though it defeated the Ottoman Empire in war. Austria got Bosnia while Serbia and Romania were given independence.
The Congress of Berlin
These were the two alliances that fought each other during World War I.
The Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente
This “healer” had a lot of influence over Tsarina Alexandra.
Rasputin
The Bolsheviks won this conflict due to Trotsky’s effective army, the use of terror to crush opponents, strong mobilization of the economy & divisions among their opponents.
The Russian Civil War
The assassination of this heir from this empire was the immediate cause of the war.
Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
This is the name of Germany’s battle plan for knocking France out of the war early and avoid a two-front war.
The Schlieffen Plan
This Russian legislative assembly was created as a result of the 1905 Revolution.
Duma
Russia’s poor showing in the 1904-05 conflict led, in part, to the Revolution of 1905 and Russia’s renewed focus on the Balkans.
The Russo-Japanese War
This French “tiger” was determined to protect French security after World War I and eager to punish Germany.
Georges Clemenceau
This Bolshevik economic program developed during the Russian Civil War essentially ruined the Russian economy.
War Communism
