WW1 and Russian Revolution

Question 1

Define Imperialism

Answer 1

a policy of extending a county’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force

Question 2

Advantages of the Western World

Answer 2

advancements in science, communication, weapons, technology, industrialization, ships, government and military

Question 3

Describe the first couple years of WW1

Answer 3

the assassination of archduke Ferdinand , Germany declared war on France, march into war with pre planned Schlieffen plan

Question 4

Main reason for united states opposition to the league of nations

Answer 4

president Wilson tried to implement his 14 points and wanted to remain neutral

Question 5

First nation to declare war on Serbia

Answer 5

Austria- Hungary

Question 6

The spark that started WW1

Answer 6

When archduke Ferdinand and his wife were shot and killed through a window of a moving car

Question 7

Significance of the Zimmerman Note

Answer 7

proposing that Germany would help Mexico reconquer new Mexico and Arizona and Texas in exchange for their help

Question 8

Schlieffen policy

Answer 8

designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two front war, germen forces were to invade France through the Netherlands and Belgium rather than across the common boarder

Question 9

Significance of the First Battle of Marne

Answer 9

Germanys hopes of quick victory gone; go around Paris to get to Germany

Question 10

new advanced weaponry during WW1

Answer 10

rapid fire machine guns, long range artillery gun, shrapnel in artillery guns, poison gas (Germany started, Einstein) tanks, planes, blips (zeppelins)

Question 11

Russia’s most disastrous defeat

Answer 11

they lost to japan which was a much smaller country compared to them

Question 12

Define total war

Answer 12

the channeling of a nations entire resources into the war effort, must control public opinion

Question 13

Define propaganda

Answer 13

the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause

Question 14

Name of the British ship sunk off coast of Ireland by Germany navy; 128 Americans died in attack

Answer 14

Lusitania

Question 15

Role of women during and after WW1

Answer 15

women kept the countries running while the men were fighting, working on the front lines too; and most got kicked out of their jobs when the men got back

Question 16

Define Trench Warfare

Answer 16

soldiers would hang out in trenches which made it very hard to advance, no-mans land between trenches, dug in zig-zag pattern

Question 17

Treaty drawn up after WW1 that punished Germany Severely

Answer 17

the treaty of Versailles

Question 18

Primary goal/ target or focus of German U-Boats

Answer 18

stop supplies from getting to the other side

Question 19

Significance of Rudyard Kipling

Answer 19

he wrote many poems exposing what the war was like

Question 20

Define Jingoism

Answer 20

excessive and aggressive patriotism leading to an aggressive foreign policy

Question 21

Type of Imperial rule practiced by France

Answer 21

Direct rule where soldiers and government was sent over to rule

Question 22

Type of Imperial rule practiced by Britain

Answer 22

Indirect rule, urged the colonists into rebellion

Question 23

Describe the Moroccan crisis

Answer 23

Competition for colonies between Britain and France vs Germany, brink of war twice, Germany did gain some territory in central Africa and France and Britain strengthened their ties

Question 24

Define Militarism

Answer 24

The glorification of military

Question 25

Describe Pan Slavism Nationalism

Answer 25

idea that all Slavic people shared common nationality

Question 26

Impact of fresh American troops on WW1

Answer 26

boosted moral

Question 27

Another name for WW1

Answer 27

The great war, The war to end all wars

Question 28

Describe No-mans land

Answer 28

The space in-between opposing trenches, where virtually no life is because its constantly in crossfire

Question 29

The battle of Verdun

Answer 29

February 21-december 18th- 1916 one of longest, bloodiest, and most ferocious battle of the war, 300,000 were killed, 750,000 casualties

Question 30

Describe the offensive at Somme River

Answer 30

60,000 people die in one day= 1 per every second

Question 31

Define conscription

Answer 31

the draft which required all young men to be ready for military or other service

Question 32

Define Reparations

Answer 32

a levy on a defeated country forcing it to pay some of the war costs of the winning countries

Question 33

Who was not permitted at the Paris peace conference

Answer 33

The Russian sfsr, the central powers- Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, ottoman empire; were not allowed until after peace treaties were agreed upon

Question 34

Describe the role of the tsarina and Gregory Rasputin on the Russian revolution

Answer 34

Tsarina relied on Rasputin to run domestic affairs, group of Russian nobles killed him

Question 35

Define soviets

Answer 35

council of workers and soldiers, worked with the duma

Question 36

Who were the Bolshevik and what did their name mean

Answer 36

radical socialist group lead by Lenin; means majority

Question 37

What did Lenin’s communist government become known as?

Answer 37

the Bolsheviks