Warm Up BM 2

Question 1

Why was the Balkans referred to as the “powderkegs of Europe”

Answer 1

Many ethic groups, Slavic people, Russia descendants, Austria-Hunary trying to control them

Question 2

How did people persuaded others to support world was 1 ?

Answer 2

Propaganda

Question 3

What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression in America?

Answer 3

Stock market crash

Question 4

What does “Raj” mean?

Answer 4

British rule of India

Question 5

Who was Rasputin?

Answer 5

Holy man in Russia

Question 6

What are the MAINE cause of world war 1

Answer 6

Militarism alliance imperialism nationalism and ethic groups

Question 7

Describe a countries reason for imperialism

Answer 7

They want to be stronger

Question 8

Why is imperialism needed? (What will colonies gain?)

Answer 8

They get resources

Question 9

Pair the world leaders with countries

Joseph Stalin, FDR, Mussolini, Churchill

Answer 9

Joseph- Russia
FDR- USA
Mussolini- Italy
Churchill- Great Britain

Question 10

Why did Germany establish Weimar Republic?

Answer 10

Struggling to develop a stable government

Question 11

How does Imperialism effect the country? BIG ideas

Answer 11

Religion, population, government, languages - not moving

Question 12

What is the purpose of inexpensive labor?

Answer 12

To make cheap manufacture products

Question 13

What was the campaign of terror called?

Answer 13

Great Purge- Lenin

Question 14

Meji Restoration- What did the governor want to do for Japan’s economy?

Answer 14

Modernize the economy

Question 15

Who was the first Kumintang Communist National Party? (Before Mao Zedong) 882

Answer 15

Sun Yixian

Question 16

Sequence: Nicholas II abdicated the throne and then what group came to power?

Answer 16

Bolshevik

Question 16

What event was the main cause of the Petrograd uprising of the Russian Revolution? (Why were the Russians upset-caused a civil war and wanted out of WWI )

Answer 16

Food shortages

Question 16

What did Stalin so to the farms during his 1st 5-year plan?

Answer 16

Collectivization

Question 16

What government has extreme nationalism combined with militarism and dictator is called?

Answer 16

Fascism

Question 16

How did trench warfare change the fighting of WWI?

Answer 16

Fight a defensive war for a stalemate

Question 16

Which group of people revolted against the Russian revolution provisional government

Answer 16

Bolsheviks

Question 17

What was the major consequences of the March Revolution? Who revolted against the March Revolution?

Answer 17

Cause Nicholas II abdicate the throne (left the throne during WWI and communism came to power) women workers revolted

Question 18

Which country lost significant territory as a result of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference? (Meeting after WWI)

Answer 18

Germany

Question 19

What does “Armenians deported by the Ottoman Empire) mean?

Answer 19

Genocide of an ethnic group

Question 20

Crimean War, 1st Boer War, Russ-Japanese War = all fought war?

Answer 20

Imperialism

Question 21

What was the focus of the Big four during the Paris Peace Conference? (Meeting after WWI)

Answer 21

Prevent future wars

Question 22

How was the Ottoman Empire effected by the end of WWI? (Think Kemal)

Answer 22

Lost territory of turkey

Question 23

Why did the Germans create the Schlieffen Plan?

Answer 23

To fight on 2 fronts

Question 24

Why did the US fail the ratify the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 24

Wanted isolation- knew to stay out of European Affairs, didn't like that Germany was blamed, not the League of Nations

Question 25

What was Bloody Sunday and in what year?

Answer 25

Russian revolution before WWI

Question 31

How did the Bolshevik Revolution affect the course of WWI ?

Answer 31

Made western front the focus of the war ( Russia pulled of the western front because it the civil war

Question 32

Germany and Austria Hungary prearranged agreement before the entrance into WWI was called ?

Answer 32

Alliance

Question 33

What event causes the start of WWI

Answer 33

Assassination of Arhduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 34

What are Britain and France concerned with Germany's threatening

Answer 34

National security

Question 35

What plan helped Germany repay with war reparation from WWI

Answer 35

Dawes plan

Question 36

What is WWI a turning point for US Foreign Policy

Answer 36

Isolationism - rejected world leadership

Question 37

What government did Lenin support

Answer 37

Communism

Question 38

What drug did China and England fight over?

Answer 38

Opium