World War I, Its Aftermath, and the Russian Revolution

Vocabulary flashcards covering the origins, events, and aftermath of World War I, the Paris Peace Conference, and the Russian Revolution under Lenin and Stalin.

Serbia

The Balkan nation that served as the regional flashpoint for the outbreak of World War I.

Verdun and the Somme

World War I battle locations whose names became synonymous with human slaughter.

Home front

The domestic civilian sphere and daily life of populations within nations engaged in World War I.

Armenian genocide

The twentieth-century's first genocide, which occurred during the era of World War I.

1917

The pivotal year marked by both the entry of the United States into World War I and the outbreak of the Russian Revolution.

Paris Peace Conference (1919)

The international gathering held at Versailles dominated by three nations to draft the peace settlement ending World War I.

Woodrow Wilson

The U.S. President who played a central role in framing the post-war terms at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.

League of Nations

An international body conceived during the 1919 peace settlement to oversee post-war diplomacy and collective security.

Mandate system

The post-World War I territorial administration system established over former imperial territories, approved by some powers and resented by others.

Bolsheviks

The revolutionary faction led by Vladimir Lenin that came to power during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and sought to remake Russian society.

Vladimir Lenin

The leader of the Bolsheviks who spearheaded the Russian Revolution in 1917 and began consolidating Soviet power.

Joseph Stalin

The Soviet leader who consolidated power in the USSR following the Russian Civil War and instituted massive state economic transformations.

Five Year Plan

A centralized economic modernization program instituted by Joseph Stalin in the USSR.

Collectivization

Stalin's agricultural policy designed to support the Five Year Plan, the implementation of which contributed to the deaths of millions of Russians in the 1920s and 1930s.

The Great Depression

The global economic collapse that provided ideological and political comfort to the new rulers of the USSR.