AP Euro WWI People

Kipling

• Wrote the “White Man’s Burdem

• N”, example of Social Darwinism

Erich Maria Remarque

• Wrote All Quiet on the Western Frount

• Discussed expectation vs reality of WWI

Walter Rantheau

• German creator of economic system for total war

David Lloyd George

• British total war economic system creator

• British representative at the Treaty of Versailles

Woodrow Wilson

• American President & US representative at Treaty of Versailles

• Created 14 points, including self-determination & League of Nations, wanted national self-determination

Clemenceau

• France’s representative at the treaty of Versailles

• Nickname “the Tiger”

• Wants harsh German punishment, military & economic sanctions

• Gave up demand for buffer state in return for French occupation & defense alliance

Tsar Alexander II

• Reforms top-down, abolishes serfdom (though doesn’t actually do much good)

• Assassinated by members of Slavophiles

Tsar Nicholas II

• Sends troops to peaceful women protestors on Bloody Sunday

• Created October Manifesto promising Duma legislative body

• Got ride of Duma when called for new government

• Went to go lead army, left wife in control

• Forced to abdicated after Duma declares provincial government

Rasputin

• Tsarina only took advice from him, dismissing loyal advisors

• Unpopular & uneducated Siberian preacher

• Murdered in attempt to fix political situation, but dosen’t work

Vladimir Lenin

• Upper-middle class birth

• Studied Marxist socialism

• Brother executes for attempted assassination attempt of tsar

• Exiled from Russia because of brother

• Wrote April Theses, on imperialism bad & Russia good place for Marxism

• 3 main ideas: revolution necessary, Russia the place, human leadership needed

William II

• Dismisses Bismarck, undoing alliance system

• Refuses new treaty with Russia, so russia ally’s with France instead

Trotsky

• Lenin’s military leader

• Organized Petrograd soviet taking control of city’

• Becomes War Commisioner re-establishes strict discipline, recruited former tsarist army officers

Mustafa Kemal

• Led Turkish nationalist movement

• Prominent Turkish general, recognized territorial integrity of Turkey

• Believed Turkey should modernize & secularize, established republic & reformed culture