(1914-present)
164195224 | World War 1 | (1914-1918) known as the "Great War" | 0 | |
164195225 | nationalism | the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | 1 | |
164195226 | Western Front | In WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other. | 2 | |
164195227 | Germany | stuck with the Bill from WWI | 3 | |
164195228 | Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia. | 4 | |
164195229 | Armenian genocide | Assault carried out by mainly Turkish military forces against Armenian population in Anatolia in 1915; over a million Armenians perished and thousands fled to Russia and the Middle East. | 5 | |
164195230 | decolonization | The acquisition, by colonized peoples, of control over their own territory. | 6 | |
164195231 | League of Nations | An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace. | 7 | |
164195232 | Treaty of Versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans | 8 | |
164195233 | Great Depression | the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s | 9 | |
164195234 | totolitarianism | dictatorship in its most extreme form. | 10 | |
164206679 | Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) | 11 | |
164206680 | Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition | 12 | |
164206681 | Trotsky | Was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin. | 13 |