151204412 | Black Hand | Pre-World War I secret Serbian society; one of its members, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand and provided the spark for the outbreak of the Great War. | 0 | |
151204413 | Bolshevik | Russian communist party headed by Lenin. | 1 | |
151204414 | Central Powers | World War I term for the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire. | 2 | |
151204415 | Communism | Philosophy and movement that began in middle of the nineteenth century with the work of Karl Marx; it has the same general goals as socialism, but it includes the belief that violent revolution is necessary to destroy the bourgeois world and institute a new world run by and for the proletariat. | 3 | |
151204416 | Gallipoli | World War I battle in which the British lead a disastrous attack on the Ottomans; the number of Allied casualties weakens loyalty between Britain and Canada, Australia, and New Zealand | 4 | |
151204417 | Luisitania | British passenger liner sunk in 1915 that helped sway American opinion of the war. | 5 | |
151204418 | Mandate system | System that developed in the wake of World War I when the former colonies became mandates under European control, a thinly veiled attempt at continuing imperialism. | 6 | |
151204419 | October Revolution | Bolsheviks seize power from Russian provisional government in the name of all Soviets. | 7 | |
151204420 | Romanov | Russian dynasty (1610-1917) founded by Mikhail Romanov and ending with Nicholas II. | 8 | |
151204421 | Schlieffen Plan | Germany's World War I plan of attack in which they would swiftly attack France and then fight a defensive war against Russia. | 9 | |
151204422 | Self-determinism | Belief popular in World War I and after that every people should have the right to determine their own political destiny; the belief was often cited but ignored by the Great Powers. | 10 | |
151204423 | Soviets | Russian elected councils that originated as strike committees during the 1905 St. Petersburg disorders; they represented a form of local self-government that went on to become the primary unit of government in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The term was also used during the cold war to designate the Soviet Union. | 11 | |
151204424 | Triple Alliance | Pre-World War I alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. | 12 | |
151204425 | Triple Entente | Pre-World War I alliance of England, France, and Russia. | 13 |
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