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| 9547176768 | Western Front | name given to the line of trenches which stretched from the English Channel across the battle fields of France and Belgium during WW1 | 0 | |
| 9547176769 | King Faisal | King of Saudi Arabia (1964-1975) who used oil revenue to increase industrialization and improve educational and medical facilities. He was assassinated by his nephew. | 1 | |
| 9547176770 | Theodore Herzl | 1860-1904, Austrian writer, born in Hungary; founder of the Zionist movement. In The Jewish State (1896), he advocated resettlement of the Jews in a state of their own. | 2 | |
| 9547216003 | Balfour Declaration | The Balfour Declaration ("Balfour's promise" in Arabic) was a public pledge by Britain in 1917 declaring its aim to establish "a national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine. | 3 | |
| 9547176771 | Bolsheviks | used to describe the political system and ideas that Lenin and his supporters introduced in Russia after the Russian Revolution of 1917. A Bolshevik was a person who supported Lenin and his political ideas. | 4 | |
| 9547176772 | Vladimir Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924). He issued the April Thesis (demands peace, land to peasants, & power to soviets) | 5 | |
| 9547176773 | Leon Trotsky | A Russian revolutionary leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Trotsky rose to power alongside Lenin after the Russian Revolution, taking charge of foreign affairs. | 6 | |
| 9547176774 | Treaty of Versailles | (1919) was a document signed between Germany and the Allied Powers following World War I that officially ended that war. | 7 | |
| 9547176775 | Triple Alliance | secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed in May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I. | 8 | |
| 9547176776 | Triple Entente | the military alliance formed between Russia, Great Britain and France in 1907 before World War I. | 9 | |
| 9547176777 | Chaim Wiezmann | was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization and later as the first President of Israel. | 10 | |
| 9547176778 | T.E. Lawrence | Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures | 11 | |
| 9547176779 | Woodrow Wilson | the 28th U.S. president, served in office from 1913 to 1921 and led America through World War I (1914-1918). An advocate for democracy and world peace | 12 | |
| 9547176780 | League of Nations | an association of nations (1920-46), established to promote international cooperation and peace: it was succeeded by the United Nations. | 13 | |
| 9547176781 | Describe in detail the main causes of WW1. How did the alliance system and assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand help trigger the war? | Militarism-policy of building up strong military forces to prepare for war Alliances-agreements between nations to aid and protect one another Nationalism-pride in or devotion to one's country Imperialism-when one country takes over another country economically and politically Assassination-murder Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand | 14 | |
| 9547176782 | Why would the years from 1914-1917 be described as a stalemate during WW1? | The generals on each side tried for 4 years to take enemy positions by ordering their troops to charge across the open fields, only to have them cut down by machine-gun fire. For 4 years the war was inconclusive on both land and at sea | 15 | |
| 9547176783 | How did armies fight along the trenches along the Western Front? | Both sides spread out until they formed an unbroken line of trenches (the Western Front) from the North Sea to Switzerland | 16 | |
| 9547176784 | Describe some of the new military technologies used in fighting during WW1 | New technologies used in wars were trenches, artillery fire (guns), barbed wire, land mines, machine guns, poison gas, flame throwers, airplanes, tanks, submarines (u boats), gas masks, and mustard gas. | 17 | |
| 9547176785 | What was the Balfour Declaration? How did its issue anger Arab nationalists? | In the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the British suggested the Zionists (in support of the Jews) leader Chaim Wiezmann that they would "view with favor" the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. Britain also sent troops into southern Mesopotamia in order to secure the oil pipeline from Iran, taking Baghdad in early 1917. | 18 | |
| 9547176786 | What role domestically did govs play during WW1? | Most govs took over industrial production during the war, while instituting price controls and ration of products that were needed on the front lines. Rationing and the recruitment of Africans, Indians, Chinese, and women into the European labor force transformed civilian life. | 19 | |
| 9547176787 | What role did women play domestically during WW1? | With huge #'s of men taking up arms, women moved into factories to fill empty positions. This experience revved up the women's suffrage movement, and it became the basis for a successful push by women in Britain and in the U.S. to gain the vote after the war. | 20 | |
| 9547176788 | What role did colonies play in assisting their European home countries during WW1? | British and French forced overran Germany's African colonies. In all of their African colonies Europeans requisitioned a lot of food, imposed heavy taxes, forced Africans to grow export crops and sell them at low prices and recruited African men to serve as soldiers/porters. | 21 | |
| 9547176789 | What was America's political stance at the beginning of WW1? How did the sinking of the Lusitania help change that stance? | At first the U.S. practiced isolationism. The sinking of the Lusitania (British passenger liner) helped fuel America to join WW1 because more than 100 Americans aboard died. The next year, Germany was cutting off all U.S. shipments to Britain to starve Britain. This was fueling the U.S. to join WW1. | 22 | |
| 9547176790 | How did the Zimmerman telegram lead the U.S. to declare war on Germany during WW1? | The Zimmerman telegraph allowed the U.S. to hear of a secret message suggesting that if Mexico fought with Germany they can regain the territory they lost to the U.S. in the Mexican American War. On April 2, 1917, the U.S. declared war on the side of the Allies. | 23 | |
| 9547176791 | In what ways did the Treaty of Versailles punish Germany? How will German resentment of the Treaty of Versailles lead to problems later? | The Treaty of Versailles was very punitive against Germany, which was required to pay war reparations, release territory, and downsize its military. This lead to resentment among the German population, laying the groundwork for the later rise of nationalistic Adolf Hitler. | 24 | |
| 9547176792 | Even though the League of Nations was designed to promote peace and stability, why was it eventually seen as a failure? | The League of Nations was seen as a failure because England and France were mad while Germany and Russia initially refused (later joined). Worse, the U.S. openly rejected it, so Wilson was super embarrassed. | 25 | |
| 9547176793 | What were the goals of the Bolsheviks during the second Russian Revolution? | Their goals were to continue war with Germany in hope that Russia could then secure its borders and become a liberal democracy. They were desperate because of the suffering from the war. | 26 | |
| 9547176794 | Why is Mustafa Kemal seen as the father of modern-day Turkey? In what ways did he help modernize Turkey? | He is seen as the father of modern Turkey because he ed successful military campaigns against the Greeks, and then overthrew the Ottoman sultan. He became the 1st president of modern Turkey. | 27 |
