Regents Prep Day 15

World War I and Russian

Revolution

Reminders
1) 1) HW due Friday (Chap 6) (5% of grade)

2) Trackers due Thursday (Quiz grade8%)

3) 10 extra practice sections due (20% of grade)

4) Take home tests are now LATE (12% of grade)

5) Regents Prep TODAY!

6) Regents Next Wednesday
I) Causes of World War I

A) Mania term used to describe the causes of
World War I. Each letter stands for something

Militarism (army competition)
Alliances (Friendships amongst Europeans)
Nationalism (pride and love of ones country)
Imperialism (competition for colonies and
resources)
Assassination (murder of Archduke
Ferdinand)



II) World War I Alliances

A) Triple Entente France / Britain / Russia

B) Triple Alliance Germany / Austria Hungry /
Italy


Alliances will end up changing, and becoming:


C) Central Powers Germany / Austria Hungry /
Ottoman Empire

D) Allies U.S. / Britain / France / Japan / Italy /
Russia
III) World War I Facts

A) Powder Keg term to describe
tension in Eastern Europe. One spark
will cause an explosion

B) Trench Warfare Fighting in
trenches. Led to a stalemate

C) New Military Technology Barbed
wire, airplanes, tanks, submarines / U-
boats, rapid fire machine gun, poison
gas, radio, hand grenades
IV) Treaty of Versailles

A) Treaty of Versailles peace agreement that ended
World War I. Inside the treaty:

1) German & Austrian king must step down from
power

2) Reparations Germany had to pay Allies back for
war damages (30 billion $$$$)

3) Germany has to accept all blame for causing the
war

4) Germany /Austria / Ottoman Empire have to give
up large parts of land

V) League of Nations


A) League of Nations
Conference where nations
come together to solve
problems and
disagreements through
discussion.

B) Does not have a military
force, and thus was very
WEAK





VI) Problems in Russia

A) Russia is backwards

B) Czars ruled with absolute power

C) Corruption Government was
dishonest

D) Serfs were uneducated

E) World War I led to food shortages, and
many deaths of Russian peasants

F) Unable to obtain a warm-water port
(Crimean War)





VII) Attempts of Reform in Russia

A) Alexander II emancipates (frees) the serfs & reforms
Russia

B) Terrorists kills Alexander II

C) Alexander III Serfs could not handle freedom, &
takes back all of his fathers reforms.

D) Czar Nicholas II - Instead of a better life, peasants
found long work hours, low pay, unsafe working
conditions, disease, and tenements.

E) Bloody Sunday Czar fired and kill unarmed protestors. Led
to lost of faith in the czar afterwards

VIII Vladimir Lenin
A) Lenin Led Russian Revolution (Bolshevik
Revolution). Had peasants support and followed
Karl Marxs Communist ideas

B) 1917 Workers rally against the government
demanding Peace, Land, Bread

1) Peace End World War I
2) Land Give land to the free serfs
3) Bread Feed people starving in Russia.
4) Czar Nicholas is executed