world war one ap euro chapter 25

Keywords define them.

• militarism

  • the funding for the military and the influence of the military grows.

  • (When this happens, there is usually a war about to happen. )

• imperialism

  • this is what European countries want or desire to get as much territory as possible because they believed the more land you have then the more power you have as a country.

• nationalism

  • the pride of being a nationality and you want to have a state and government that is controlled by the people of your nation.

• stalemate

  • in this context, this is the no man’s land area of the war. stalemate is like a chess game where there are no more moves in the game, so it is a draw.

• league of nations

• treaty of Versailles

• the great depression

• Weimar republic

• lenient bolsheviks

• Russians revolution

• new economic policy

ap questions

• How did the breakup of the Ottoman Empire cause a crisis that led to WWI?

• How did imperialist rivalries and the breakdown of the alliance system lead to war?

• What new technologies and strategies led to the massive destruction and loss of life?

• What terms of the Treaty of Versailles caused the economic collapse and political problems for Weimar Germany?

• What were the major causes of the Russian Revolution and how did it influence the course of WWI?

• How were women both participants in the war and affected by it?

• What changes occurred in Russian life after the Bolsheviks took over?

Study guide// reading guide

The Road to World War One

What role did nationalism play in causing WWI?

• Nationalism is being proud of your nationality and wanting a state governed by people with the same nationality as you. This became a problem and caused tension between countries because now many nations are competing against each other because they believe that their state's nation was better and they needed a country or state for them.

What is internal dissent, and how did it affect how the wars started

What did militarism do for WWI?

What was the outbreak of the war, and what happened in the summer of 1914?

What was happening in the Balkans from 1908-1914?

What is the blank check?

descirbe the assasination of francis ferdinand.

the war

How did the declaration of the war start?

what happned 1914-1915?

What was happening on the west front?

What was happening in the East Front?

What was the Great Slaughter from 1916 to 1917?

What was the daily life of a soldier in the trenches?

expanding the war

What was the global conflict?

How and why did the United States enter the war?

What does new warfare mean?

What was total war?

What was the public opinion of the Great War?

What were the social impacts of the total War?

war and revolution

Describe the Russian Revolution.

What was the March Revolution?

Who were the Bolsheviks and what did they do?

What was Russia's civil war like?

How were the conditions during the last year of the war?

What were some casualties of the war?

What were the revolutionary upheavals in Germany and Austria-Hungary?

peace settlement

What were the peace aims?

Describe the Treaty of Versailles.

What are some other peace treaties?