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Question | Answer |
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What did trench warfare cause? | stalemate on the Western Front |
The strip of territory that separated the troops from each other was known as | no-man’s-land. |
Why did both sides in the war want more allies to join the war? | Nobody was winning the war |
Triple Entente | France, Great Britain, and Russia |
Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
mobilization | process of assembling troops and supplies for war |
Schlieffen Plan | military strategy for Germany to mobilize against France and Russia at the same time |
conscription | military draft |
The competition for lands abroad, especially in ____________________, led to conflict and heightened the existing rivalries among European states | Africa |
How did European ethnic groups without nations feel about their situation? | disappointed |
How did industrialization affect the growth of the military in the nations of Europe? | It led to new methods of shipbuilding and new weapons |
Austria-Hungary was concerned about Serbia’s desire to be an independent state because | of Austria-Hungary’s worries about its own Slavic minorities |
Germany viewed the Russian czar’s full mobilization of the army as an act of | war |
In March of 1917, widespread rioting broke out because the price of ________________ had skyrocketed. | bread |
The ________________ were councils made up of representatives from workers and soldiers | soviets |
The ________________ was a military group loyal to the czar. | white forces |
A policy ensuring supplies for the Red Army was known as ________________. | War communism |
The Red Army commissar ________________ was largely responsible for the success of the Bolsheviks | Leon Trotsky |
In which way was Russia unprepared for war? | There were no competent military leaders. |
The Russian provisional government made the fatal mistake of deciding to | remain in World War I. |
Why did Russia fall into civil war? | Many groups were opposed to the new Bolshevik government. |
Lenin and the Bolsheviks devoted themselves to | destroying capitalism through revolution. |
armistice | truce or an agreement to end fighting |
mandate system | a territory temporarily governed by another country on behalf of the League of Nations |
David Lloyd George | British prime minister in 1919 |
Georges Clemenceau | French premier in 1919 |
reparations | payments to cover war costs |
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson argued at the Paris Peace conference most strongly for | a League of Nations to prevent future wars. |
Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was forced to | return Alsace and Lorraine to France. |
German General Ludendorff knew Germany had lost the war when | the Allies stopped German troops at the Second Battle of the Marne. |
In 1918 the Allies signed a truce with | the Social Democratic government of Germany. |