A | B |
Alliances | These divided Europe into competing camps |
Militarism | This is building up an army and being prepared for war |
Archduke Ferdinand | His assassination sparked WWI |
Austria-Hungary | Archduke Ferdinand was heir to this throne |
1917 | Russia left the war and US entered during this year |
Woodrow Wilson | He was the US President during WWI |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | He was Germany's ruler during WWI |
Russian Imperial | One of the empires which ended as a result of WWI |
Treaty of Versailles | Peace Treaty that ended WWI |
War Guilt Clause | This forced Germany to accept blame for WWI |
Reparations | Money paid to the victorious nations as compensation |
German military | This was limited by the Treaty of Versailles |
Japan | Russia lost a war to this country in 1905 |
Peasants | This group of people was largely landless at the beginning of the Russian Rev. |
Czar Nicholas II | This man was considered to be incompetent, leading to his assassination |
Russia | This nation experienced military defeats and high casualties in WWI |
Bolsheviks | This group seized power during the Russian Revolution |
Vladimir Lenin | This man became Russia's leader during the Russian Rev. |
New Economic Policy | Limited form of capitalism, allowed peasants some rights |
Joseph Stalin | He suceeded Lenin |