WWI and the Russian Revolution Guided Reading

Questions
1. What were the two changes undermining
stability in Europe?
2. What territories were lost by the Ottomans and
how?
3. What European powers were in the Ottoman
Empire and why were they there?
4. What political changes were caused by the Young
Turks?
5. What were the long range causes associated with
the beginning of WWI?
6. What were the two roles played by nationalism?
7. What type of effect did nationalism have on the
idea of war?

21. What were the effects of war economy?

22. What were the effects on women? Young men?
23. Why was it harder in Germany? What were those
characteristics?
24. What were the effects on Africa?
25. Who got rich during the war and why?
26. What were some of the actions in the Ottoman
Empire?
27. What did the British try to do in the Ottoman
Empire? Why did it fail?
28. What did the British try to do for the Jews?
29. What did the British do in Mesopotamia?
30. How did those actions affect India?

8. What other ideas made war more popular?

31. What were the problems in the Russian military?

9. What was and why did the alliance system

develop?

32. Describe the following events associated with the

Russian Revolution (think note cards)

10. What were the problems associated with each

countries war plans?
11. Who declared war on who and why?

a. February Revolution
b. October Revolution
c. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

12. How did people feel about the outbreak of war?

Why?

33. Define Mensheviks

13. Define the word belligerent

34. Describe Lenins background

14. Why was Germany unable to defeat the French

like planned?

35. How did Lenin get back into Russia? (Not in the
book so thinkWhy did they help him get into
Russia?)

15. What new technologies were developed and

used?

36. Who was Kerensky?

16. What did each side hope would happen to the

other to end the war?

37. What were the sides in the civil war between the
tsars abdication and the Communist takeover?

17. What were the numbers for each side at Verdun

and Somme?

38. What did the Bolsheviks do to try to stabilize

Russia?

18. What happened at sea?

39. What is the Cheka?

19. Go back to number 15 and add stuff.

40. Why did the US join the war? When?

20. What were the effects on civilians?

41. What happened on the Western Front towards

the end of the war?
42. What did William II do at the end?
43. What were the demographic changes caused by
the war?
44. What were the demographic changes caused by
the influenza outbreak?
45. What were the environmental changes caused by
the war?
46. Who was not invited to the peace conference?
Why?
47. Who dominated the conference?
48. What did Japan want that was ignored?
49. What did the Pan-African Congress want that was
ignored?
50. What were Wilsons goals for the conference?
51. What did the English want? French?
52. What were the compromises they reached?
53. What was the "guilt clause"?
54. What did the Treaty of Saint-Germain do?
55. How were the new small nations safe?
56. How long did fighting in Russia continue?
57. Why were the Communist able to defeat their
enemies? (there are several reasons)
58. What areas did the Red Army conquer?
59. What was wrong with the Russian economy?
60. What changes did Lenin make? Effects?
61. What kind of effect did this have on the
peasants?
62. Who were up to be Lenins successors? How
were they different? Who won?
63. How did the Germans feel about Treaty? Italians?
Arabs? Indians? Chinese?

64. How are the time periods split after the war?
65. What did Germany stop doing? What did France
do as a result?
66. What happened in Europe as a whole after 1924?
67. What was the triangular flow of money?
68. How did Germany violate Versailles? Why did
they do it?
69. What did the League do? What couldnt do? Why
couldnt they?

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WWI and Russian Revolution Vocabulary

Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip
Black Hand
Russo-Japanese War
The Balkans
The Balkan Wars (1912-1913)
Ottoman Empire
Pan-Serbianism
Nationalism
Slavs
Alliance System
Militarism
Western Front
Battle of the Marne
Battle of Verdun
Battle of the Somme
U-Boats
Lusitania
Zionism
Balfour Declaration
Bolsheviks
Mensheviks
Valdimir Lenin
Czar Nicholas II
Woodrow Wilson
Kaiser Wilhelm
Spanish Flu (1918-1919)
David Lloyd George
Georges Clemenceau
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Saint-Germain
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Russian Civil War
Red and White Armies
USSR (United Soviet Socialist Republics)
New Economic Policy