<p> “WWI & RUSSIAN REVOLUTION” STUDY GUIDE</p><p>1. Describe the Balkans.</p><p>2. What was the outcome of the Congress of Berlin?</p><p>3. What was the Triple Alliance?</p><p>4. What was the Triple Entente?</p><p>5. Explain Militarism.</p><p>6. What is the Black Hand?</p><p>7. What was known as the "blank check"?</p><p>8. What were the 3 Main long-term Causes of WWI?</p><p>9. Why was the division of Europe along national lines not conductive to peace?</p><p>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?</p><p>13. Which state issued a partial mobilization against A-H? Why?</p><p>14. What directly led to Germany's declaration of war on Russia?</p><p>15. Which Russian emperor issued a partial then full mobilization of Russian troops?</p><p>16. What was used to stir up nationalism before the war?</p><p>17. How was WWI detrimental to socialist movements?</p><p>18. What was the common belief about the length of WWI?</p><p>19. Some reasons people were attracted to joining the war effort</p><p>20. What was the Schlieffen Plan & why did it fail?</p><p>21. Describe the First Battle of the Marne. 22. Describe Trench Warfare.</p><p>23. How was the war in the east different from that in the west?</p><p>24. What was the new military technology invented in WWI?</p><p>25. Who were the Central Powers?</p><p>26. Who were the Allies?</p><p>27. What was Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare?</p><p>28. Why did Italy join the war?</p><p>29. Who was Lawrence of Arabia</p><p>30. What was the event that caused Russia to withdraw from WWI?</p><p>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?</p><p>33. List the members of the BIG FOUR.</p><p>34. Describe the aftermath of the war.</p><p>35. What is article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles?</p><p>36. Describe the sentiment of the losing & winning nations after the war & the Treaty of Versailles?</p><p>37. Explain the March Revolution.</p><p>38. What was the "April Theses"?</p><p>39. What is meant by the slogan "Peace, land, bread"?</p><p>40. What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? 42. What was the purpose of the Paris Peace Conference?</p><p>46. What was the League of Nations?</p><p>47. Describe the Treaty of Versailles.</p><p>48. What are Mandates?</p><p>49. Describe Lenin’s rise to power.</p><p>50. What is Marxism?</p><p>51. Why did Alexandria trust Rasputin?</p><p>52. Why did Alexandria give Rasputin power to rule?</p><p>53. Who fought in the Russian Civil War?</p><p>54. How did Marxism lay the groundwork for the Russian Revolution? 55. Who did Alexander III view as dangerous?</p><p>56. List the causes of the Russian Revolution.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>