WWI/Rise of Dictators

1. Why was WWI more destructive than earlier wars?

first war with automatic weapons, chemical warfare, and trench warfare

2. What countries help led the Allies to achieve the breakthrough they sought in World War |?

rance, the United Kingdom (with its Empire), and Italy

3. Why did Americans suffer the least amount of casualties during the war?

They joined the war later then everyone else.

4. What did the Zimmerman telegram convince the U.S. to do?

It convinced them to attack Germany, as Germany was clearly planning on America not being in the war.

5. What treaty ended WWI?

Treaty of Versailles.

6. How did the Allies overcome the threat of German U-boats?

They hacked into the germans plan so they could avoid them, as well as using radar technology to detect when the subs were underneath them.

7. What was No Man’s land in WWI?

No mans land in WW1 was the area between the two sides, where there were no trenches and no one lived to tell the tail.

8. Who did Stalin replace as the Soviet leader?

Lenin

9. What type of government glorifies blind loyalty to the country?

fascism

10. What was the purpose of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

To elliminate war across the world, and

11. What did Hitler promise to do away with if he became leader?

12. What improved greatly under Hitler that influenced the German’s perception of him in a positive way?

13. Who did the Red Army fight against in the Civil war that followed the Bolshevik Revolution?

14. What expanded under Stalin’s 5-year plan?

15. How did Stalin’s Communist Party maintain obedience?

16. What big event that affected the world helped Adolf Hitler gain power in Germany?

17. What was the purpose of Lenin’s New Economic Policy?

18. Under Fascism, what were the youth in Italy taught?