Wwi & Russian Revolution Study Guide
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“WWI & RUSSIAN REVOLUTION” STUDY GUIDE
1. Describe the Balkans.
2. What was the outcome of the Congress of Berlin?
3. What was the Triple Alliance?
4. What was the Triple Entente?
5. Explain Militarism.
6. What is the Black Hand?
7. What was known as the "blank check"?
8. What were the 3 Main long-term Causes of WWI?
9. Why was the division of Europe along national lines not conductive to peace?
10. What were some internal issues that led to WWI? 11. What was the short-term cause of WWI? 12. What directly led to Austria's declaration of war on Serbia?
13. Which state issued a partial mobilization against A-H? Why?
14. What directly led to Germany's declaration of war on Russia?
15. Which Russian emperor issued a partial then full mobilization of Russian troops?
16. What was used to stir up nationalism before the war?
17. How was WWI detrimental to socialist movements?
18. What was the common belief about the length of WWI?
19. Some reasons people were attracted to joining the war effort
20. What was the Schlieffen Plan & why did it fail?
21. Describe the First Battle of the Marne. 22. Describe Trench Warfare.
23. How was the war in the east different from that in the west?
24. What was the new military technology invented in WWI?
25. Who were the Central Powers?
26. Who were the Allies?
27. What was Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare?
28. Why did Italy join the war?
29. Who was Lawrence of Arabia
30. What was the event that caused Russia to withdraw from WWI?
31. How did WWI change jobs for women & what happened to jobs with women at the end of the war? 32. What was President Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
33. List the members of the BIG FOUR.
34. Describe the aftermath of the war.
35. What is article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles?
36. Describe the sentiment of the losing & winning nations after the war & the Treaty of Versailles?
37. Explain the March Revolution.
38. What was the "April Theses"?
39. What is meant by the slogan "Peace, land, bread"?
40. What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? 42. What was the purpose of the Paris Peace Conference?
46. What was the League of Nations?
47. Describe the Treaty of Versailles.
48. What are Mandates?
49. Describe Lenin’s rise to power.
50. What is Marxism?
51. Why did Alexandria trust Rasputin?
52. Why did Alexandria give Rasputin power to rule?
53. Who fought in the Russian Civil War?
54. How did Marxism lay the groundwork for the Russian Revolution? 55. Who did Alexander III view as dangerous?
56. List the causes of the Russian Revolution.
15. Explain Stalin’s weapons of totalitarianism. To realize his vision of a perfect Communist State Stalin planned to transform the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state & began by destroying his enemies. He then built a police state to maintain his power & arrested & executed millions of so-called traitors. Stalin turned against members of the Communist Party & launched the Great Purge, a campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened his power. Stalin’s government controlled all newspapers, motion pictures, radio, & other sources of information & allowed no creativity that did not conform to the views of the state. The Government & programs had to be glorified & education was controlled from nursery school through universities & they were taught the virtues of the Communist Party. The Government encouraged atheism & aimed to replace religious teachings with the ideals of communism.
16. How did Stalin try to control or persuade the citizens of Russia? Stalin built a police state to maintain his power & used the secret police who used tanks & armored cars to stop riots, monitored phone lines, read mail & placed informers everywhere. He taught students early in school that Communism was right & everything else was wrong so the children grew up being loyal to the government.