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Cianci - Dalessandro
The Russian Revolution, The End of WWI, and The Settlement at Paris
Question | Answer |
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Lenin sought to gain alliances with the...to gain support. | Discontent workers and peasants |
The result of Leon Trotsky's coup was... | The Bolsheviks ruling over Russia |
Because they believed it would only benefit capitalism, the Bolshevik government... | removed Russia from the war |
Civil war broke out in Russia between... | the Red Russians and the White Russians |
Russia's retirement from the war meant that Germany... | could focus all of its efforts on the western front |
What prevented Germany's new concentration of attention to fail? | American Intervention |
March 1918 | Germany made a final gamble offensive that soon failed |
Fourteen Points | American war aims declared by President Wilson |
November 1918 | the republican, socialist-led government of Germany signed an armistice which ended the war |
The American Intervention in 1917... | thrust America into European affairs |
The Ottomans enter into the war on the side of Germany eventually led to... | the disbandment of the Ottoman Empire |
Some goals of the secret treaties of the victorious powers... | contradicted each other and made peace more difficult |
Fears of...greatly affected the diplomats at Versailles | the spread of communism |
Those excluded from the peace conferences were... | Germany and Russia |
The League of Nations | body of sovereign states that greed to pursue common policies and to consult in common interests |
Reparations | payed compensation for Germany's actions during the war |
The Allies placed...into the treaty towards the Germans | war guilt clause |
The Germans were forced to accept the treaty... | as the victors had wrote it and without negotiation |
John Maynard Keynes | a British economist who greatly criticized the economic aspects of the peace treaty |
In the end, France... | was left with no guarantee of support from Britain and no hope of help from the United States |
Only hope for lasting peace was... | that Germany would remain disarmed while the more obnoxious clauses of the peace treaty were revised |