WW1 History

Question 1

Armistice

Answer 1

Agreement to end fighting

Question 2

Atrocity

Answer 2

Horrible acts to civilians

Question 3

Cheka

Answer 3

Russia secret police

Question 4

Convoy

Answer 4

Used by Allies to protect supply ships

Question 5

Dardanelles

Answer 5

Water way connecting Black sea to Mediterranean

Question 6

Entente

Answer 6

Non- binding agreement

Question 7

Fourteen Points

Answer 7

List of terms by Pres. Wilson to end WW1

Question 8

Lusitania

Answer 8

British ship sunk by germany

Question 9

Mandate

Answer 9

Territories controlled by western powers

Question 10

Militarism

Answer 10

Glorification of military

Question 11

Neutrality

Answer 11

Taking neither side in war

Question 12

Proletariat

Answer 12

Class of factory, railroad, miners, and urban workers

Question 13

Propaganda

Answer 13

Spreading ideas to make a cause

Question 14

Reparations

Answer 14

Payments for war damages

Question 15

Soviet

Answer 15

Councils of workers/soldiers in Russia

Question 16

stalemate

Answer 16

neither side is able to win

Question 17

t.e. lawrence

Answer 17

british colonel helped arabs gain freedom by ottomans

Question 18

total war

Answer 18

channel all resources to war

Question 19

Triple alliance

Answer 19

germany, italy, austria-hungary

Question 20

u-boat

Answer 20

greatest impact on war by germany (submarine)

Question 21

ultimatum

Answer 21

a final demand/request

Question 22

zepplins

Answer 22

gas filled balloons by germany to drop bombs

Question 23

1917 event boosted allied morale

Answer 23

us joined

Question 24

abdication of tsar

Answer 24

food shortages/ defeat in battle

Question 25

armistice (when)

Answer 25

11 am. nov 11th, 1918

Question 26

assassination of Franz ferdinand

Answer 26

triggered WW1

Question 27

Big 3

Answer 27

us, britain, france

Question 28

bolsheviks

Answer 28

leader, VI Lenin seized control in 1917

Question 29

countries created after WW1

Answer 29

yugoslavia

Question 30

effects of nationalism on 1900s Europe

Answer 30

austria feared increased rebellion

Question 31

first battle of marne

Answer 31

ended germany's hope for quick victory

Question 32

how were international tensions raised in early 1900s

Answer 32

competiton for colonies

Question 33

how were marxist ideas adapted to russian's conditions

Answer 33

russia didn't have large urban workers

Question 34

league of nations

Answer 34

weakened by us not joining

Question 35

new economic policy of 1921

Answer 35

small businesses could reopen for private profit

Question 36

Ottoman empire as an ally

Answer 36

joined central powers, controlled russian supply routes

Question 37

schlieffen plan

Answer 37

germany wanted to avoid war on 2 fronts, failed, russia mobilized quickly

Question 38

t.e. lawrence

Answer 38

war in middle east

Question 39

threat to peace in postwar europe

Answer 39

many overlapping claims on territory

Question 40

treaty of versailles

Answer 40

forced germany to pay for repairs from war

Question 41

trench warfare

Answer 41

machine guns and artillery made hard to advance

Question 42

what event triggered the start of the war

Answer 42

assassination of austrian heir

Question 43

immediate result of russia's withdrawl from war

Answer 43

germany concentrated on western front

Question 44

underlying causes of war

Answer 44

MAIN

Question 45

why colonials wanted to participate on WW1

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they wanted civil rights

Question 46

why did britain join the war

Answer 46

germany invaded belgium

Question 47

why did russia join the war

Answer 47

austria declared war on russia's ally serbia

Question 48

why US entered war

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cultural ties with britain

Question 49

women and war effort

Answer 49

worked in industries

Question 50

zimmerman note

Answer 50

germany offered mexico US land