World War I and Russian Revolution REVIEW

Formed in 1893, agreement to become allies with France, Great Britain, and Russia

Triple entente

Fighting conducted from a system of ditches by barbed wire

Trench warfare

council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917

Soviets

uprising in 1917 that led to Russia's withdrawal from World War 1

Bolshevik Revolution

Channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort

total war

formed in 1882, agreement to become allies with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Triple Alliance

agreement that brings an end to fighting

Armistice

International peacekeeping organization created at the end of World War I

League of Nations

list terms for resolving WWI and future wars outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson in January 1918

Fourteen Points

A war based on wearing the other side down with constant attacks and heavy losses

War of attrition

Why were tensions heightened among countries in Europe after 1900?

nations began mobilizing for war

Serbia angered Austria-Hungary when it?

tried to form an independent state

Who were the first nations to get involved in the initial conflict in Europe?

Germany and Russia

In the beginning, the war effort on the Western Front was characterized by?

Trench warfare

the Allied Powers and Central Powers sought new allies in order to?

Get more money and supplies

Civil war broke out in Russia after World War I because?

Many people opposed the Bolsheviks

Negotiations at the Paris Peace conference were complicated by?

Territorial disputes among the Big Three

Why was Germany especially opposed to Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles

held Germany responsible for the war

A major cause of the Bolshevik Revolution was?

Czar Nicholas's failed military and economic policies

One legacy of World war I and the Treaty of Versailles was?

left widespread dissatisfaction among the Central Powers