WW1 and the Russian Revolution

Question 1

What were the 3 main long term causes of WW1?

Answer 1

Nationalism, Militarism and Imperialism

Question 2

What is Nationalism?

Answer 2

The idea that their country and ideas were superior.

Question 3

What is Militarism?

Answer 3

This was the act of expanding and investing in their military power.

Question 4

What is Imperialism?

Answer 4

The act of taking other territories to gain power.

Question 5

What was a short-term cause of WW1?

Answer 5

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated

Question 6

What date was Franz Ferdinand assassinated?

Answer 6

28th June 1914

Question 7

How did the short-term cause start WW1?

Answer 7

Due to alliances, it started a giant domino effect, where one country protecting another gets involved, which means another gets involved, etc.

Question 8

What was the plan that the Germans tried to use to conquer France

Answer 8

The Schlieffen plan.

Question 9

What was the Schlieffen plan?

Answer 9

It was a plan to defeat France quickly through a “knockout blow” through Belgium

Question 10

How did the Schlieffen Plan go wrong?

Answer 10

The Belgian Army was a lot more resistant than previously thought, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) held the Germans at Mons, and Russia launched an attack on Germany far faster than normal.

Question 11

What is a stalemate

Answer 11

This is where neither side progresses to defeat the other

Question 12

What is a front?

Answer 12

The name given to the area where two armies meet each other

Question 13

What did the armies do when they met at the fronts?

Answer 13

They dug trenches

Question 14

What did Duckboards do?

Answer 14

Placed on the ground to stop soldiers from sinking into the ground.

Question 15

What did a firestep do?

Answer 15

Stood on these to fire “over the top”

Question 16

What were dugouts?

Answer 16

They were rooms dug out the back wall of trenches.

Question 17

What did periscopes do?

Answer 17

They enabled soldiers to look over the top without getting shot.

Question 18

What did Barbed Wire do?

Answer 18

It slowed down attacking troops

Question 19

What did a Machine gun do?

Answer 19

It mowed down enemy troops

Question 20

What were artillery?

Answer 20

Large guns that fired explosives for miles.

Question 21

What were communication trenches?

Answer 21

Links from the frontline to the reserve trenches.

Question 22

What were reserve trenches?

Answer 22

This is where soldiers go to rest or wait to go to the frontline

Question 23

What are trench rats

Answer 23

Rats that were attracted by the dead bodies in the trenches. Claims were they were “as big as a cat”.

Question 24

What is trench foot?

Answer 24

An infection of the foot caused by wet, cold and dirty conditions. The feet would gradually become numb and blue, thus causing untreated cases to become amputees.

Question 25

What was a soldier’s main food source?

Answer 25

“Bully beef”, bread and biscuits

Question 26

Who were the “Big Three” at the end of the First World War?

Answer 26

Woodrow Wilson of the US, David Lloyd George of the UK, and George Clemenceau of France.

Question 27

What year was the Treaty of Versailles signed?

Answer 27

1919

Question 28

Treaty of Versailles: LAMB:

Answer 28

Land (had to give up land)
Army (Army was cut down)
Money (Had to pay 6.6 billion dollars in reparations)
Blame (Germany was blamed for the war)

Question 29

Why was the League of Nations created?

Answer 29

To stop all other wars.

Question 30

Who is Tzar Nicholas II?

Answer 30

The ruler of Russia

Question 31

When was Tzar Nicholas II abdicated?

Answer 31

16th March 1917

Question 32

When did the Bolsheviks gain power?

Answer 32

October 1917

Question 33

Who lead the Bolsheviks?

Answer 33

Vladimir Lenin

Question 34

Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?

Answer 34

Karl Marx

Question 35

When did the Russian Revolution start?

Answer 35

1917