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 1914 battle foiled Germany’s invasion of France and saved the
Allied cause.
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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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Germany’s unconditional support for Austria-Hungary
against Serbia in July, 1914 is known as this.
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This statesman’s resignation in 1890 led
to a more reckless German foreign policy
regarding Russia.
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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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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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This international collective security organization was
created by the Versailles Treaty (but the U.S.
never joined).
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This provision of the Versailles Treaty placed
sole blame for World War I on Germany.
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U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proposed this, a
blueprint for ending World War I.
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This 1917 British statement seemed to favor the creation of a
Jewish homeland in Palestine.
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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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Alexander II is considered one of the
greatest tsars in Russian history, in part, because he did this in
1861.
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This bloody event occurred after people
peacefully came to St. Petersburg asking
the tsar for help.
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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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This 19th-century German philosopher wrote that “God is dead” while his
anti-Enlightenment views reflected post-WWI
pessimism.
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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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This poet wrote “The Wasteland” in 1922, depicting a world of growing desolation.
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This writer’s The Trial, and The Metamorphosis
portrayed helpless individuals destroyed by
inexplicable forces.
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This document/speech by Lenin in the spring of 1917 outlined his goals of revolution.
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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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This Bolshevik terror organization destroyed thousands of Lenin’s political opponents.
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This slogan was used by Lenin to gain
support during the elections following the October Revolution.
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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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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This treaty got Russia out of the war in 1917, but at the cost of 1/4
of its population.
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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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Freud theorized that this—our unconscious drives—makes human
beings irrational. (It all made sense after WWI!)
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His theory of relativity of time and space
challenged traditional ideas of Newtonian
physics.
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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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This scientist was among the first to
theorize that “quanta,” or
subatomic particles, existed in atoms.
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This Russian parliament was created in 1905 and eventually
morphed into the Provisional
Government.
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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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These highly regulated communes consisted of former serfs who paid
the state for land taken from nobles.
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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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Marconi invented this, a new form of mass
media that came of age in the 1920s.
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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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This was Picasso’s masterpiece, a heart-
wrenching work on the bombing of a Spanish
city in 1937.
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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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This French “tiger” was determined to
protect French security after World War I and eager to punish Germany.
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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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This 1926 international agreement seemed to
guarantee peace in the foreseeable future as Germany agreed to
accept existing borders.
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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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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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This 1923 crisis occurred when France invaded
Germany because it could not make its reparations
payments.
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This communist group seized control of Berlin in
1919 before they were crushed by the
“Freikorps.”
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Ultimate Question
Answer
These four politicians represented the Big Four at Versailles in
1919.