History Quiz 5/6

1914-1918

World War I

February 1917 and October 1917

The Russian Revolution

1928

Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan

1932-1933

The Holodomor

1936-1938

Stalin’s Purges (Great Terror)

Causes of World War I

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

Nationalism

Conflicts between alliances

Causes of the Russian Revolution

Economic hardship, food shortages and government corruption that were all connected to Czar Nicholas II

The Entente

Alliance between France, Russia, and Britain in WWI

Trench warfare

Military strategy involving fighting from strategically dug ditches

The Western front

Controlled by Germany in WWI

The Zimmermann Telegram

German proposal to Mexico to join WWI against the U.S.

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Secret WWI agreement on the division of the Middle East

Armenian Genocide

Systematic killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, caused by the suspicion that the Armenians were siding with the Russians

Treaty of Versailles

WWI peace treaty that ended the war and caused Germany to surrender alot of its. possessions

National self-determination

Principle allowing nations to create their own states with a principal government

The “Lost Generation”

Term for post-WWI disillusioned writers

The Provisional Government

Temporary Russian government after the February Revolution

Bolsheviks

Radical faction led by Lenin during the Russian Revolution

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Treaty between Russia and the Central Powers ending WWI for Russia

New Economic Policy

Lenin's economic policy allowing limited capitalism

Five-year Plans

Stalin's economic plans for rapid industrialization

Collective agriculture

Community farms ran by the Soviet Union

The Great Terror

Stalin's campaign of political repression in the late 1930s that eliminated anyone he considered a threat

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, whose assassination sparked WWI

Kaiser Wilhelm II

German Emperor during WWI

Tsar Nicholas II

Last Russian Tsar overthrown in the Russian Revolution

President Woodrow Wilson

U.S. President during WWI and advocate for the League of Nations

Rasputin

Influential figure in the Russian court before the Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

Leader of the Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution

Joseph Stalin

Soviet leader who succeeded Lenin and led during WWII.

The Eastern Front

Where Russia and Romania fought the Central Powers countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria.