In Which Way Was Russia Unprepared For War

Question: In March of 1917, widespread rioting broke out because the price of _____ had skyrocketed.

Answer: bread

Question: The _____ were councils made up of representatives from workers and soldiers.

Answer: soviets

Question: The _____ was a military group loyal to the czar.

Answer: white forces

Question: A policy ensuring supplies for the Red Army was known as _____.

Answer: war communism

Question: The Red Army commissar, __________, was largely responsible for the success of the Bolsheviks.

Answer: Leon Trotsky

Question: In which way was Russia unprepared for war?

Answer: There were no competent military leaders.

Question: The provisional government made the fatal mistake of deciding to

Answer: remaining in WWI

Question: Outwardly, Lenin turned over power to the all-Russian Congress of Soviets, but then he

Answer: passed real power to a council that he controlled.

Question: Why did Russia fall into civil war?

Answer: Many groups were opposed to the new Bolshevik government.

Question: Lenin and the Bolsheviks devoted themselves to

Answer: destroying capitalism through revolution.

Question: truce or an agreement to end fighting

Answer: armistice

Question: payments to cover war costs

Answer: reparations

Question: a territory temporarily governed by another country on behalf of the League of Nations

Answer: mandate system

Question: British prime minister in 1919

Answer: David Lloyd George

Question: French premier in 1919

Answer: Georges Clemenceau

Question: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson argued at the Paris Peace conference most strongly for

Answer: a League of Nations to prevent future wars

Question: Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was forced to

Answer: return Alsace and Lorraine to France.

Question: German General Ludendorff knew Germany had lost the war when

Answer: the Allies stopped German troops at the Second Battle of the Marne.

Question: In 1918, the Allies signed a truce with

Answer: the Social Democratic government of Germany.

Question: The principle of self-determination proved difficult to implement because

Answer: the eastern European population was too mixed to draw boundaries along ethnic lines.

Question: In trench warfare, soldiers fought by running constantly from one trench to another.

Answer: FALSE

Question: A war of attrition is based on wearing the other side down with constant attacks and heavy losses.

Answer: TRUE

Question: A total war was a war that involved all the nations in the world.

Answer: FALSE

Question: Planned economies were economic systems directed by capitalist entities.

Answer: FALSE

Question: Both sides used propaganda in World War I.

Answer: TRUE

Question: What did trench warfare cause

Answer: stalemate on the Western Front

Question: ...

Answer: b.

Question: The strip of territory that separated the troops from each other was known as

Answer: the trenches.

Question: Why did both sides in the war want more allies to join the war?

Answer: Nobody was winning the war.

Question: In total war, governments were able to control

Answer: economies and resources within their own countries.

Question: During the war, new roles in the workforce were created for women because

Answer: so many men entered the military effort.

Question: France, Great Britain, and Russia

Answer: Triple Entente

Question: military strategy for Germany to mobilize against France and Russia at the same time

Answer: Schlieffen Plan

Question: process of assembling troops and supplies for war

Answer: mobilization

Question: military draft

Answer: conscription

Question: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Answer: Triple Alliance

Question: The competition for lands abroad, especially in _______, led to conflict and heightened the existing rivalries among European states.

Answer: Africa

Question: How did European ethnic groups without nations feel about their situation?

Answer: disappointed

Question: How did industrialization affect the growth of the military in the nations of Europe?

Answer: It led to new methods of shipbuilding and new weapons

Question: Austria-Hungary was concerned about Serbia's desire to be an independent state because

Answer: of Austria-Hungary's worries about its own Slavic minorities.of Austria-Hungary's worries about its own Slavic minoritieof Austria-Hungary's worries about its own Slavic minorities.

Question: Germany viewed the Russian czar's full mobilization of the army as an act of

Answer: war