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World War One Flashcards

1
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This 1914 battle foiled Germany’s invasion of France and saved the Allied cause.

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Battle of Marne

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Part of Wilson’s Fourteen Points, this German territory was returned to France as part of the Treaty of Versailles.

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Alsace-Loraine

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The gradual decline of this empire created tension between Austria and Russia.

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The Ottoman Empire

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The interception of this secret message revealed a German proposal for a military alliance with Mexico against the US.

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The Zimmerman Telegram

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This group of people entered the work force because of the labor shortage created by WW1

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Women

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After the Czar was overthrown in February 1917, this body served as part of the dual government. It consisted of workers and soldiers.

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The Petrograd Soviet

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This slogan was used by Lenin to gain support during the elections following the October Revolution.

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“Peace, Land, Bread”

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The treaty of Berlin in 1878 created agreement among the major European Powers on the boundaries of this region.

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The Balkans

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9
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The Treaty of Versailles stated that this country lost territory, was demilitarized, and forced to pay war reparations.

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Germany

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This British ship was sunk in 1915 by a German u-boat killing 1,195 people, including 128 Americans.

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The Lusitania

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This terror organization destroyed thousands of Lenin’s political opponents.

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The Cheka

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Who is Alexander Kerensky?

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He was the leader of the failed Provisional Government who continued to pursue an unpopular war.

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13
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This statesmen worked to isolate France through multiple alliances, but his resignation in 1890 led to a more reckless German foreign policy regarding Russia.

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Otto von Bismarck

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Name three new military innovations first used in WW1.

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Tanks, poison gas, airplanes, flamethrowers, submarines or radio.

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President Woodrow proposed this, a blueprint for ending World War One which included freedom of the seas, arms reductions & independent nations.

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The Fourteen Points

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16
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This bloody event occurred after people peacefully came to St. Petersburg asking the tsar for help.

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“Bloody Sunday” (Revolution of 1905)

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This provision of the Versailles Treaty placed sole blame for World War II on Germany.

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The War Guilt Clause (Article 231)

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18
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This 1916 battle was the bloodiest of the war: over 1 million casualties!

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Battle of the Somme

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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.

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Leon Trotsky

20
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This German naval policy eventually brought the United States into the war.

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Unrestricted submarine warfare

21
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This German ruler was unstable and reactive and was largely blamed for starting WWI.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

22
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Germany’s unconditional support for Austria-Hungary against Serbia in July, 1914 is known as this.

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The “blank check”

23
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This war was THE major cause of the Russian Revolution.

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World War I

24
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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.

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Lenin

25
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This 1929 novel by Erich Remarque detailed the horrors of trench warfare.

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All Quiet on the Western Front

26
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The creation of these successfully prevented a general multinational war in the late 19th c.

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Alliances

27
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This static type of warfare characterized the Western Front after defensive weapons gained an early advantage.

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Trench Warfare

28
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Alexander II is considered one of the greatest tsars in Russian history,in part, because he did this in 1861.

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End serfdom (Emancipation Edict)

29
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This international organization collective security organization was created by the Versailles Treaty (but the US never joined).

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The League of Nations

30
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Lenin led this Russian faction of communists.

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The Bolsheviks

31
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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.

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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

32
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This British economist believed that the Versailles Treaty’s harsh provisions against Germany were a huge mistake.

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John Maynard Keynes

33
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This allied strategy contributed the most to Germany’s defeat.

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The naval blockade

34
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Name at least one newly independent nation after WWI.

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Poland, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia

35
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These district or village assemblies were created by Alexander II’s decree and saw significant popular participation by peasants who elected representatives.

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Zemstvos

36
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This was the last Tsar of Russia.

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Tsar Nicholas II

37
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Britain entered WWI as a direct response to Germany’s invasion of this country.

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Belgium

38
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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.

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The Congress of Berlin

39
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These were the two alliances that fought each other during World War I.

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The Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente

40
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This “healer” had a lot of influence over Tsarina Alexandra.

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Rasputin

41
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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.

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The Russian Civil War

42
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The assassination of this heir from this empire was the immediate cause of the war.

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Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary

43
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This is the name of Germany’s battle plan for knocking France out of the war early and avoid a two-front war.

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The Schlieffen Plan

44
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This Russian legislative assembly was created as a result of the 1905 Revolution.

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Duma

45
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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.

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The Russo-Japanese War

46
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This French “tiger” was determined to protect French security after World War I and eager to punish Germany.

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Georges Clemenceau

47
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This Bolshevik economic program developed during the Russian Civil War essentially ruined the Russian economy.

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War Communism

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