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Kaiser Wilhelm II

Vladimir Lenin

Georges Clemenceau

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Category #1 Category #2 Category #4 Category #5 Category #6The Great

WarPre-WWI Tensions

Diplomacy RussiaAge of

Anxiety: Part I

October Revolution

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This static type of warfare characterized

the Western Front.

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What is trench warfare?

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This German naval policy eventually

brought the United States into the war.

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What is unrestricted submarine warfare?

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This 1916 battle was the bloodiest of the war: over 1 million

casualties!

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What is the Battle of the

Somme?

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Britain failed to take this peninsula:

the key to taking Constantinople.

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What is Gallipoli?

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This 1914 battle foiled Germany’s invasion of France and saved the

Allied cause.

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What is the (first) Battle of

the Marne?

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The creation of these new super-battleships

resulted in a frantic naval arms race

between Britain and Germany.

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What are Dreadnoughts?

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Germany’s unconditional support for Austria-Hungary

against Serbia in July, 1914 is known as this.

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What is the “blank

check”?

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This statesman’s resignation in 1890 led

to a more reckless German foreign policy

regarding Russia.

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Who is Otto von Bismarck?

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This 1911 crisis over a French colony in North Africa nearly led to a general war among European states.

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What is the Second

Moroccan Crisis?

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This Austrian’s Lay Down Your Arms (1889) inspired

peace societies in Germany and Austria

while calling for an end to the arms race.

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Who is Bertha von Suttner?

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This international collective security organization was

created by the Versailles Treaty (but the U.S.

never joined).

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What is the League of Nations?

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This provision of the Versailles Treaty placed

sole blame for World War I on Germany.

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What is Article 231?

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U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proposed this, a

blueprint for ending World War I.

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What is the Fourteen Points?

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This 1917 British statement seemed to favor the creation of a

Jewish homeland in Palestine.

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What is the Balfour Note?

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The interception of this secret message revealed a German proposal for a

military alliance with Mexico against the U.S.

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What is the Zimmerman Telegram?

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Alexander II is considered one of the

greatest tsars in Russian history, in part, because he did this in

1861.

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What is end serfdom

(Emancipation Edict)?

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This event was THE major cause of the Russian Revolution.

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What is World War I?

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This bloody event occurred after people

peacefully came to St. Petersburg asking

the tsar for help.

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What is “Bloody Sunday”

(Revolution of 1905)?

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He was the leader of the Provisional

Government during much of 1917.

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Who is Alexander Kerensky?

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After the Czar was overthrown in February

1917, this body served as part of the dual

government. It consisted of workers and soldiers.

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What is the Petrograd

Soviet?

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This 1929 novel by Erich Remarque

detailed the horrors of trench warfare.

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What is All Quiet on the

Western Front?

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This 19th-century German philosopher wrote that “God is dead” while his

anti-Enlightenment views reflected post-WWI

pessimism.

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Who is Friedrich

Nietzsche?

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This German pessimist wrote Decline of the West in which he saw

Europe being surpassed by Asian civilization.

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Who is Oswald Spengler?

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This poet wrote “The Wasteland” in 1922, depicting a world of growing desolation.

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Who is T. S. Elliot?

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This writer’s The Trial, and The Metamorphosis

portrayed helpless individuals destroyed by

inexplicable forces.

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Who is Franz Kafka?

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Lenin led this Russian faction of communists.

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Who are the Bolsheviks?

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This document/speech by Lenin in the spring of 1917 outlined his goals of revolution.

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What is the “April

Theses”?

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This leader of the Red Army overthrew the

newly-elected Russian government in 1917 and led the Reds during the

Russian Civil War.

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Who is Leon Trotsky?

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This Bolshevik terror organization destroyed thousands of Lenin’s political opponents.

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What is the Cheka?

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This slogan was used by Lenin to gain

support during the elections following the October Revolution.

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What is “Peace, Land,

Bread”?

Category #1 Category #2 Category #3 Category #4 Category #5 Category #6

WWIAge of

Anxiety: Part Deux

Imperial Russia

ModernityIn the Arts

Diplomacy: Part Zwei

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The assassination of this heir from this

empire was the immediate cause of the

war.

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Who is Franz Ferdinand of

Austria-Hungary?

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This is the name of Germany’s battle plan for knocking France out of the war early and avoiding a

two-front war.

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What is the Schlieffen

Plan?

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These were the two alliances that fought

each other during World War I.

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What are the Central Powers and the Triple

Entente (Allies)?

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This treaty got Russia out of the war in 1917, but at the cost of 1/4

of its population.

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What is the Treaty of

Brest-Litovsk?

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This British economist believed that the Versailles Treaty’s harsh provisions

against Germany were a huge mistake.

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Who is John Maynard Keynes?

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Freud theorized that this—our unconscious drives—makes human

beings irrational. (It all made sense after WWI!)

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What is the “ID”?

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This Viennese composer abandoned

tonality with his twelve-tone technique.

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Who is Arnold Schönberg?

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His theory of relativity of time and space

challenged traditional ideas of Newtonian

physics.

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Who is Albert Einstein?

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This philosophy says that there is no God and no inherent meaning to

life. Therefore, each person has to find their own meaning through

experiences.

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What is Existentialism

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This scientist was among the first to

theorize that “quanta,” or

subatomic particles, existed in atoms.

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Who is Max Planck?

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This Russian parliament was created in 1905 and eventually

morphed into the Provisional

Government.

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What is the Duma?

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Russia’s poor showing in this 1904-05 conflict

led, in part, to the Revolution of 1905 and Russia’s renewed focus

on the Balkans.

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What is the Russo-

Japanese War?

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Tsar Alexander III instituted these harsh anti-Jewish measures.

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What are pogroms?

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These highly regulated communes consisted of former serfs who paid

the state for land taken from nobles.

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What are mirs?

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These district or village assemblies were created by Alexander II’s decree

and saw significant popular participation by peasants who elected

representatives.

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What are zemstvos?

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This style of painting was heavily influenced

by Freudian psychology.

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What is Surrealism?

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Marconi invented this, a new form of mass

media that came of age in the 1920s.

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What is the radio?

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This post-World War I art style made no

sense—just like society no longer seemed to

make sense.

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What is Dadaism?

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This became the most popular form of mass entertainment after

World War I.

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What are movies?

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This was Picasso’s masterpiece, a heart-

wrenching work on the bombing of a Spanish

city in 1937.

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What is Guernica?

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Germany’s sinking of this passenger liner in 1915

strained its relations with the U.S. as 128 Americans perished in the tragedy.

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What is the Lusitania?

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This French “tiger” was determined to

protect French security after World War I and eager to punish Germany.

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Who is Georges

Clemenceau?

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At this 1878 conference, Russia gained nothing

even though it defeated the Ottoman Empire in war.

Austria got Bosnia while Serbia and Romania were

given independence.

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What is the Congress of

Berlin?

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This 1926 international agreement seemed to

guarantee peace in the foreseeable future as Germany agreed to

accept existing borders.

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What is the Locarno Pact?

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This 1906 conference settled the thorny issue

of French control of Morocco while isolating Germany from Britain

and France.

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What is the Algeciras

Conference?

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This political party took control of Germany after World War I.

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What is the Social

Democratic Party (SPD)?

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This late-20s/early 30s crisis effectively killed the Weimar Republic.

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What is the Great

Depression?

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This 1924 U.S. plan provided loans to

Germany so it could pay reparations to Britain

and France, who in turn, would pay back its loans

to the U.S.

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What is the Dawes Plan?

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This 1923 crisis occurred when France invaded

Germany because it could not make its reparations

payments.

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What is the Ruhr Crisis?

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This communist group seized control of Berlin in

1919 before they were crushed by the

“Freikorps.”

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Who are the Spartacists?

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These four politicians represented the Big Four at Versailles in

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